[open-archaeology] FASTI Online wins AIA award for outstanding work in digital archaeology

Benjamin Ducke benducke at fastmail.fm
Sun Dec 15 14:58:36 UTC 2013


Thanks, Jess,

That works.

Cheers,

Ben


On 12/13/2013 06:08 PM, Jessica Ogden wrote:
> Hi all -
> 
> With my L - P : Archaeology/Fasti hat on...
> 
> So we're in the process of building some more elegant ways of doing this
> - but in the current set up, if you use the 'cog' button on the
> 'Advanced Search' page (which lives in the horizontal toolbar above the
> search results) you can configure the fields to add to the search
> results. You can then copy paste the HTML table into a spreadsheet - by
> viewing all results (bottom right) in table format.
> 
> We have download capabilities on search results, but for security/server
> stability reasons we haven't made them live. We're in the process of
> building an ARK API (Fasti runs on ARK), that will allow for more
> dynamic access to the data including transclusion of subforms, and are
> thinking about doing nightly builds of the data to provide users with
> CSV/RDF downloads for those that are interested..
> 
> But in short, we're working on it!
> 
> Cheers all - we're pretty excited about the award.
> 
> Best,
> Jess
> 
> 
> On Fri, Dec 13, 2013 at 4:12 PM, Eric Kansa <kansaeric at gmail.com
> <mailto:kansaeric at gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
>     Sorry to be late to the party, was in an all day meeting on "Data
>     Science" (or how to train a new generation of statisticians to mine
>     server logs for the profit of the NSA, Google and Facebook).
> 
>     Anyway, a huge congrats to FASTI! It's a great resource and the
>     recognition is very well deserved!
>     -Eric
> 
> 
> 
>     On Fri, Dec 13, 2013 at 6:05 AM, Benjamin Ducke
>     <benducke at fastmail.fm <mailto:benducke at fastmail.fm>> wrote:
> 
>         Thanks for the pointer.
>         Unfortunately, the Pelagios "glue" only links to a
>         subset of FASTI sites. It seems the raison d'etre
>         for this is to link up Pelagios and FASTI, not to
>         provide an interface for data export.
> 
>         Cheers,
> 
>         Ben
> 
>         On 12/12/2013 03:17 PM, Kai-Christian Bruhn wrote:
>         > Hi Ben,
>         >
>         > you might find what you seek here:
>         >
>         >
>         http://pelagios-project.blogspot.de/2012/05/fasti-online-pelagios-compliant-and.html
>         >
>         >
>         > As I'm not affiliated to the FASTI I join the applause!
>         >
>         > Best
>         >
>         > Kai
>         >
>         > Am 12.12.2013 14:35, schrieb Benjamin Ducke:
>         >> Congratulations on the award!
>         >>
>         >> Does anyone here know how to get data out
>         >> of FASTI? I mean: let's say I want to import
>         >> all Italian sites into a GIS for some spatial
>         >> analysis, then how would I mass export the
>         >> records from the web interface?
>         >>
>         >> I also haven't found a way to display a results
>         >> tables that includes the coordinates, monument
>         >> type and date range fields for each record.
>         >>
>         >> Maybe I am overlooking something obvious?
>         >>
>         >> Thanks,
>         >>
>         >> Ben
>         >>
>         >> On 12/12/2013 02:00 PM, Stefano Costa wrote:
>         >>> Congratulations to FASTI Online!
>         >>>
>         >>>
>         http://www.ariadne-infrastructure.eu/News/FASTI-Online-wins-AIA-award
>         >>>
>         >>> "FASTI Online has won the first AIA award for outstanding
>         work in
>         >>> digital archaeology!
>         >>>
>         >>> Recognizing that digital technologies are driving important
>         changes in
>         >>> archaeology, the Archaeological Institute of America
>         established this
>         >>> new award for outstanding work in digital archaeology to
>         honour groups,
>         >>> projects and individuals that use digital technology in
>         novel ways to
>         >>> innovate in excavation, research, teaching, publication or
>         outreach.
>         >>>
>         >>> The award will be presented to Elizabeth Fentress of AIAC on
>         behalf of
>         >>> FASTI Online at the AIA and APA annual meeting in Chicago on
>         January
>         >>> 3rd."
>         >>>
>         >>> And let's not forget that:
>         >>>
>         >>> "All Fasti Online data, unless otherwise stated is licensed
>         under the
>         >>> Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike Unported License (CC
>         BY-SA
>         >>> 3.0),"
>         >>>
>         >>> :-)
>         >>>
>         >>> Ciao
>         >>> steko
>         >>>
>         >>
>         >>
>         >>
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