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Aerial Archaeology

gianluca.cant...@gmail.com (gianluca.cantoro@gmail.com) — Mon, 28 May 2012 10:24:51 UT

Dear Antiquists,
still few days available for your or your colleagues/students to apply for
the
First Aerial Archaeology Research and Training School in Kocaeli, Turkey
(AARTS 2012).
The deadline for application is May 31st. The school will take place in
Kocaeli July 20th to 30th.
More info at
[link]

Connected Past videos online now

tom.brughm...@yahoo.com (Tom Brughmans) — Sat, 26 May 2012 07:34:05 UT

Apologies for cross-posting!

Dear all,

Two months ago we organised 'The Connected Past: people, networks and complexity in archaeology and history' in Southampton. We are delighted to let you know that the recorded presentations are now available on The Connected Past website: [link]

UPDATE: Arts, Humanities, and Complex Networks @ NetSci2012

maximil...@schich.info (Maximilian Schich) — Fri, 25 May 2012 15:37:17 UT

Dear friends,

We have a number of exciting news, regarding
the registration and program for our satellite at NetSci2012,
our dedicated Special Section in Leonardo Journal,
and our brand new eBook from MIT-Press.

PLEASE REGISTER NOW at
[link] for

*Arts, Humanities, and Complex Networks

Re: [Antiquist] All things wordpress

mia.ri...@gmail.com (Mia) — Fri, 25 May 2012 14:57:18 UT

There are a few for Flickr. If Scribd has an API maybe they could be adapted?

Cheers, Mia

RE: [Antiquist] All things wordpress

p.cri...@wessexarch.co.uk (Paul Cripps) — Thu, 24 May 2012 21:20:38 UT

Indeed, interesting point.
I use wordpress for all the websites I work on (non-profit orgs, commercial companies, my own blogs, local government) and prefer to do as Ant said, using Scribd for docs, Flickr for photos, Slideshare for presentations, YouTube for videos, etc with website content drawing on these services then syndicated out from the Wordpress websites to Facebook pages, Twitter and other sites using RSS. Idea being to add content in appropriate place and then syndicate/recycle/reuse. Nice model. Keeps massive amounts of data off my servers too! I have my own hosting at Dreamhost and would thoroughly recommend that. More flexible than the WP hosted option, not extortionately expensive and Dreamhost have plenty of tools to make setup/admin simpler. Generally though, I maintain the sites and do all the content so using lots of third party services is not an issue but...

V-MusT

leif...@googlemail.com (Leif Isaksen) — Wed, 23 May 2012 09:08:30 UT

The Virtual Museums Technology Summer Schools are now open for registrations

[link]

Best

Leif

Re: [Antiquist] All things wordpress

ant.b...@gmail.com (Ant Beck) — Tue, 22 May 2012 11:33:28 UT

Hadn't really considered that as a barrier.

Was working on added value by putting the content in a clustered
environment where it is more likely to be searched or harvested.

Will give that some thought - how to maximise impact through
structured/unstructured searches whilst avoiding a sigin/download barrier.

Re: [Antiquist] All things wordpress

dave.po...@pinan.co.uk (Dave Potts) — Tue, 22 May 2012 11:23:52 UT

Hi Kayt

A map of the area in context might help on the sort of scale/location.

For example if your site is near Ostia.

Show local map with Ostia in it, Tiber etc. Then in one of the corners
your insert an overlap map which shows the location of Ostia within in the
context of the Italy.

Re: [Antiquist] All things wordpress

mia.ri...@gmail.com (Mia) — Tue, 22 May 2012 11:17:59 UT

Personally, I find scribd a barrier - it seems to hold a lot of pirated content, and I don't want to have to sign up/sign in just to download a document.

That aside, WordPress is a good choice as a basic CMS for a small website, and paid hosting takes the hassle out of updating, but it might limit how much you can customise it.

Re: [Antiquist] All things wordpress

girlwithtro...@gmail.com (Kayt Armstrong) — Tue, 22 May 2012 11:12:15 UT

Dear Dave and Ant,

Both helpful, thanks! We looked at using scribd because then we can
hopefully link to Academia but you need a log-in to do some things and we
wanted to avoid people having to sign up to something.

With regards to mapping data- due to problems with looting I don't think we

Re: [Antiquist] All things wordpress

dave.po...@pinan.co.uk (Dave Potts) — Tue, 22 May 2012 10:36:15 UT

It depends on the nature of the information you are going to show.

For example are you going to include any map data?
Google maps allows you to display mapping data

Openlayers allows you to read data from shape, text files etc so that it
would be possible to render several mapping layers.

Re: [Antiquist] All things wordpress

ant.b...@gmail.com (Ant Beck) — Tue, 22 May 2012 10:32:18 UT

We host PDFs and slides by accessing hosted content on dedicated spaces:
all documents on scribd and all presentations on slideshare. We consume
the rss based on the user profile and then present that in Wordpress.
This means you post in an appropriate repository where it will have
wider impact and automatically harvest the results within your blog

Re: [Antiquist] All things wordpress

girlwithtro...@gmail.com (Kayt Armstrong) — Tue, 22 May 2012 10:32:08 UT

Dear Luca,

Thanks very much! It's still pitched a bit above my level but I think once
I get the basics that will be very useful,

Kayt

--
Dr Kayt Armstrong

girlwithtro...@gmail.com
+44 (0) 7896076702

Re: [Antiquist] All things wordpress

lc.bianc...@googlemail.com (luca bianconi) — Tue, 22 May 2012 10:16:09 UT

Hi Kayt,

try here :
[link]
and here:
[link]

Cheers,
Luca

2012/5/22 Kayt Armstrong <girlwithtro...@gmail.com>

All things wordpress

girlwithtro...@gmail.com (Kayt Armstrong) — Tue, 22 May 2012 10:06:59 UT

Dear Antiquistas,

It seems I have volunteered to build a website for two related projects at
my institute. We think we want to use Wordpress and at the moment will
probably use their paid-for hosting as getting server space here is going
to be tricky.

I was wondering if any of you have any favourite books, resources or