Portable Antiquities Christmas meeting
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Christmas Meeting
Transcript of Portable Antiquities Christmas meeting
Christmas Meeting
Planning
Good stuff
Find recording up
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April May June July
Web use up
Boring stuff
FOI • Do not write anything that casts doubt on integrity
of finders into any field on the database or the forum.
• YOU ARE MAKING YOURSELF LIABLE FOR LEGAL ACTION.
• Anything you write can be requested by the finder
Data protection• Do not name people within descriptions - we
cannot control this information
• Do not put grid references in any field that is not labelled grid reference. Again, how do we hide these or make them searchable if not in the right place.
• Make sure your finder details are up to date. Legally we must do so.
To do
• Install new server for HLF project
• Revive old blog server
• Forum upgrade to latest version
• Start Treasure Administration module
Bug reporting
• Forum for general issues - tag @dejp3 or @maryck to direct to us
• Email for sensitive issues
Improvements
Massive code improvementsCirca 10 million changes made since April to code.
All work is logged and open to view.
Punch card of when we’re adding code
Cleaned up layoutsBetter heading, spacing of text, buttons
Streamlined menus
Pared back and moved lots of old functions
Better visibility for search
toolsHighlighting of: Search direction
Sort order Images on or off
Less clutter for statistics
Drag and drop image uploads
Embed 3D models
More radial searches
Regenerating boundary linesEvery parish, ward, district and detached parish will now
be mapped
Fixed bugs for losing work if error made
Now forms repopulate properly
JavaScript prevention of loss of workOn page reload, navigate away etc
Finds guides moved to own section
News and events merged
PublicationsThoroughly cleaned by Mary and Margaret Broomfield
(she is a hero!)
Redesigning of landing pages
Asking for your input, curated galleries of finds (see forum) What do you want to see?
The Hoards project
Massive undertaking• Restructure of entire code base for site
• Upgrade of underlying frameworks
• Import of data from an access database
• Consolidation with existing hoards data in PAS
• Restructure of numismatic recording
• Move towards all hoards being recorded in this manner
• Make PAS drive data collection for hoards project
• Allow searching of hoards and finds together
• Allow extraction of hoards data for own interface
Hoards will be own entities
Searching finds and hoards together
Deployment
To Beta server21 - 23rd January (if Mary recovered from illness)
To live server27-28th January
When upgrading
ALL SYSTEMS OFFLINE
Changing access model
Coping with HLF volunteers
Multiple access types needed
• Admin
• Finds Adviser
• Hoards project
• Treasure team
• Finds Liaison Officers
• HER officers
• Researchers
• HLF Volunteers - higher level access
• HLF Volunteers - lower level access
HLF VolunteersYou want them to be able to edit data for you
You want them to record data for clubs
Data protection nightmare
How do we deal with people accessAssign allowed people to volunteer?
It will need lots of work on our part and yours.
This will not be done before end of Q2
Other stuff
Visualising collectionsTaking data and making it interesting
Video-conferencingTaking archaeology and heritage into primary school classrooms via technology and the expertise of British Museum educators.
Bringing old data onlineOver 1000 people have helped to transcribe 14,000 out
of 30,000 museum index cards since April.
Potentially 85 models West Midlands are contributing new data
We have no £ leftThink about crowdfunding platform for research led PAS
projects
