http://www.antiquist.org/blog a heritage computing community Thu, 17 Jan 2008 13:50:28 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en In May this year, representatives from Antiquist, Digital Classicist, Digital Medievalist, and the TEI wrote an open letter to the AHRC after their decision to stop funding the AHDS. In this letter we requested information about steps the AHRC would be taking to alleviate some of the problems caused by this decision. (See here for a ... http://www.antiquist.org/blog/2008/01/17/ahrc-funding-cuts-update/ The AHRC have recently announced their intention to withdraw funding from the Arts and Humanities Data Service (AHDS). Members of Antiquist, Digital Classicist, the Text Encoding Initiative, and Digital Medievalist believe that the AHDS's services play a vital role within the Digital Arts and Humanities. We are concerned that the ... http://www.antiquist.org/blog/2007/06/18/ahrc-funding-cuts-an-open-letter/ Only slightly jaded by the after effects of the reception at the Foreign Office, Antiquists were surprisingly well represented at 9am this morning. I sat in on the Shipwreck 3D session and was impressed by Toby Jones' account of 3D timber recording on the Newport Ship. It seems £30k gets ... http://www.antiquist.org/blog/2007/04/03/caa-2007-berlin-day-one/ The first antiquist wiki article has begun. Encouragingly it is the home of a collaborative development project called The Box who's goal is to work towards a system to provide simplified data sharing mechanisms for the archaelogical and heritage community. Check in to see if you can help. If anyone is having ... http://www.antiquist.org/blog/2006/09/22/the-box-is-born/ After many months of being characteristically full of good intentions and rather short on action we finally decided to kick-start this thing. We thought a Google Group might be a good forum to start things off. Two days later and we have twenty odd members and some quite lively conversations going ... http://www.antiquist.org/blog/2006/09/21/antiquist-google-group/ An archaeologist's job is to make, care for and share information. On Antiquist we work out new ways do these things. Ha! There! One mission statement. Proud and shiny! Kind of home-spun and maybe a little too cute but the best we could muster after a long day. Hope you all enjoy ... http://www.antiquist.org/blog/2006/09/21/welcome/