Mobile App Development at the Archaeology Data Service

Summary

The Archaeology Data Service (ADS) continually explores new ways to make the data we hold more useful and accessible. One of these avenues has been the development of a mobile app called "Archaeology Britain", which we recently created in partnership with the British Library. This paper outlines the development of this partnership, and our attempt to create an iPad app with unique and interesting content from both organisations. The app presents antiquarian drawings, paintings and maps for some of Britain's most important archaeological sites, and provides rarely seen perspectives for a wide range of sites and periods, including castles, churches, megaliths, settlements, and the sites associated with the defense of Britain through the ages. The audience is the general public, and provides a window to content provided by The British Library from some of its most treasured collections, much of which is not publicly accessible. This has been combined with content from the ADS archives and other sources to provide greater context. This paper will also discuss the app development currently underway within the NEARCH project; an EU Culture programme funded partnership, exploring new ways of working and interacting with archaeology, communities and the public.

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This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Current Practice in Digital Public & Community Archaeology   •
• Society for American Archaeology 80th Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA (2015)

Keywords

Spatial Coverage