FW: Request for support

[Val Attenbrow]

See email below from Thomas Dye and Caitlin Buck.
Val

Dr Val Attenbrow
Senior Fellow
Australian Museum Research Institute
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From: Robin Torrence
Sent: Wednesday, 19 August 2015 10:24 AM
To: Val Attenbrow
Subject: FW: Request for support

Could you possibly past the letter below into OZ Arch? Contact email address below.
Some of the professional archaeologists might be interested in helping test out the software.

Bestest,
Robin

Dr. Robin Torrence
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-----Original Message-----
From: Thomas S.Dye [mailto:t...@tsdye.com]
Sent: Wednesday, 19 August 2015 10:01 AM
To: Robin Torrence
Cc: Caitlin Buck
Subject: Request for support

Aloha Robin,

Caitlin Buck and I are reaching out to our colleagues working outside academia, asking them to support our effort to find funding for a project to produce a front-end for Bayesian calibration software. The software we hope to produce will take archaeological observations as input and will produce output that can be used by Bayesian calibration software to construct a chronological model. We believe this software will help archaeologists make better use of Bayesian calibration in their work.

This work is a follow-on to the paper in press at Journal of Archaeological Science. Thanks very much for your work seeing the paper through to publication.

The granting agency we have identified requires assurance that our effort will be picked up and used in non-academic contexts.
Therefore, we are looking for expressions of support outside academia.
If funded, our project will commence April 1, 2016 and will continue for approximately 12 months.

The following list indicates how you can choose to support our effort.

- Letter of support from a non-academic entity willing to commit
effort or funds toward our project
- Commitment of in-kind effort at your standard commercial rate or salary
- Consultation regarding interface design. We understand that
archaeology units typically have their own data management
systems. Thus, we want to understand something of the range of
data management systems in use so we can design software that
will be easy to use for the broadest range of our colleagues.
Your effort will involve describing to us how you manage
excavation data and your opinions on the best interface design
for our software.
- Site stratigraphic and dating information for use in program
development. Your effort will involve providing the data in a
useful form, and consulting with us to make certain we understand
the data correctly. In addition, we would want to consult with
you about interpreting the results.
- Testing alpha and/or beta versions of the software. This effort
will involve following instructions to install the software, data
input for various test suites, and comparing test suite results
with the results expected by the software developer.
- Commitment of funds
- If you would like to support our work, but are short of time, we
are happy to accept financial support in increments approximately
equivalent to UK 1,000 pounds.

I would appreciate if you could get back to me with your decision whether or not to support our effort. If you do decide to support our effort, then please indicate the level of effort and your standard rate (so we can fix an in-kind money amount), or the amount of money you would like to donate to the project. The granting agency we have identified asks for specific support letter content. If you do decide to support our effort, then we will draft a support letter that you can revise as you see fit.

Also, if you could recommend other archaeologists in Australia that might be interested, that would be a great help.

All the best,
Tom

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