The Growing Pains and Resulting Benefits in our Transition to Mobile Data Collection

Author(s): Alicia Valentino

Year: 2018

Summary

Technology has made construction monitoring and shovel probing faster, easier, and more consistent. In this paper, I’m going to demonstrate how our office evolved from paper forms, to GPS recording, to tablets and phone apps to simplify most fieldwork. The change is not without its issues, but the result is faster, cheaper, and a whole lot better.

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The Growing Pains and Resulting Benefits in our Transition to Mobile Data Collection. Alicia Valentino. Presented at Society for Historical Archaeology, New Orleans, Louisiana. 2018 ( tDAR id: 441326)

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