Trents Plantation Barbados: Some Comparisons of Data Analyzed Using DAACS and a Long Used Analysis System

Summary

As participants in the DRC we learned the DAACS database system and entered an initial group of 3000 data entries for Trents Plantation, Barbados.  At Syracuse University we had been using a database using a combination of Access© and Excel© which had become cumbersome and was in need of being updated.  DAACS and the DRC provided an opportunity to learn a new system and to collaborate with a group of colleagues, as well as to input on the new DAACS analysis system.  This paper reviews our initial experience, presents some comparison of data entered in our old system and DAACS, as well as some of the problems of translation of the new system.  In summation, this paper evaluates our experience and finds value in the comprehensive and integrated approach represented by DAACS not only for processing the data from Trents, but for future comparative analyses.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Society for Historical Archaeology 2015   •
• A Progress Report on the DAACS Research Consortium

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