[Patina] white board photo + open source archaeoDBs

[Enrico Costanza]

Hello.

Thank you Tom for posting this photo on the wiki:
http://wiki.patina.ecs.soton.ac.uk/images/2/2a/Whiteboard.jpg

However, it's not very easy for me to read?
Did anyone take another photo, or notes, by any chance?


In one of our recent meetings Graeme pointed us to:
http://ark.lparchaeology.com/about/overview
I have also found:
http://www.iadb.org.uk/

My first impression was that the main difference between these and PoN 
was provenance: i.e. the ability to attach notes to items and versioning 
everything. This seems to be the case for IADB, however I found the 
following about ARK:
> from http://ark.lparchaeology.com/about/hypertext
>
> Eternal Revision
> Much like in wiki technology today there would be _no deletions of 
> data_, just eternal revisions. These revisions ought to be transparent 
> so that earlier edits and versions are available to the reader for 
> simultaneous side by side comparison.
and
> from http://ark.lparchaeology.com/about/reflexivity
>
> Reflexive Method
> Reflexivity is also something that ARK can easily address. The 
> instantaneous nature of ARK and its web-based front-end means that 
> people working on the project can interact with each other's 
> production on an almost immediate basis. ARK also makes it possible 
> for individuals to group and interpret data in their own way, to 
> present conflicting and differing interpretations of the same data.
>
> Making multiple narratives possible
> A result set in ARK can also saved out as a fixed snapshot or 'group'. 
> Groups then become ARK 'items' themselves, and can have other 
> fragments or interpretations attached to them. This is essential as 
> the project begins to build narrative, as stratigraphic groups or 
> other groups can be commented on as a unit.
Is this bad news <http://www.phdcomics.com/comics/archive.php?comicid=789>?

Graeme & Angeliki, do you have any first-hand experience with ARK?
Is it really so similar to PoN?

Thank you,
Enrico

-- 
Dr Enrico Costanza
Lecturer, Agents, Interaction, Complexity Group
School of Electronics and Computer Science
University of Southampton, UK, SO17 1BJ

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