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The project brings together the published text, complete project database (including all media formats such as photographs, videos, maps, line drawings), related data and media outside the direct domain of the BACH project, along with recontextualised presentations of the data. Its ambition, one which we have long wished to satisfy, is to embed, interweave, entangle and otherwise link the data and media from the archaeological excavations with their interpretation and meaningful presentation in an open access, sharable platform. The online digital mirror of House Lives that is presented in this paper – entitled the Last House on the Hill project – is one which goes much further than to bring together supplemental materials along with digital versions of the published texts. We were also aware of the disadvantages of read-only CD-ROM media, as with the printed word, of offering a definitive closed narrative, whereas we feel that the narratives about archaeology, history, cultural heritage, and the past – including those about the data themselves – should be anything but closed, but should always be open for expansion, critique, and modification. We felt that these media had a limited lifespan, not only because they could easily go missing, but also because of their regular need for migration due to physical degradation and the inevitable (unless carefully archived) obsolescence of their software. We, as archaeologists who have long been involved in digital documentation and publication of archaeology and cultural heritage were delighted with this news. The UCLA Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, who will be publishing our printed report entitled House Lives, have decided to give up on supplemental media (CD-ROMs and DVD-ROMs) in favor of on-line digital versions of their publications. The aim of our project, Last House on the Hill (LHotH), is to holistically reconstitute the rich multimedia and primary research data with the impressive texts of the monograph, the printed final report of the Berkeley Archaeologists at Çatalhöyük (BACH) project, in which a team from UC Berkeley excavated a group of Neolithic 9000-year old buildings at this famous cultural heritage location in Central Anatolia, Turkey. Working in collaboration with the contributors, archaeological project managers, publishers and information technologists, we devised a content licensing agreement that makes it possible for the primary research media and data, combined with the monograph texts, to be freely and openly accessible in perpetuity. The idea of embedding, interweaving, entangling and otherwise linking the data and media from archaeological excavations with their interpretation and meaningful presentation in an open access sharable platform has long been an ambition of those of us working in the digital documentation of archaeo logical research and the public presentation of cultural heritage. We thought that it could be useful to share here thoughts about the LHotH project, for the interest of those of us new to this space. Last Note on DropBox: We love the fact that DropBox automagically versions all documents, including the database, so if we ever make a mistake (ok, when we make mistakes), we can roll back files to previous versions.

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We use XML, but we can output reports, Excel spreadsheets, or prepare the data to be visualized in a relational database.ĥ) Archive: Process sources are archived, along with their original companions and the mapping instructions, assuring full empirical provenance. Our mapping process produces open data that can be output in a variety of formats. We fondly call this meat grinding, as in making sausage from the data.

These docs are linked to the database, using Filemaker 11’s new recurring import feature.Ĥ) Ready for Grinding: Once a source file is completely processed, it’s ready to be transformed into Event data as RDF.

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If changes need to be made to the original (if DATA is changed, that is), then the original is copied to the Archive folder.ģ) In Process: Actively worked on source docs.

After review, the database team will process the source doc to prepare it for integration in the database, and move this file to the In Process folder. Nico Tripcevich may be asked to review spatial data for the purposes of linking maps to the database. For example, I (Michael) may want Ruth to review a document to make sure it’s the right version, or to agree on which fields we want to map. Any team member can easily get to the file and see it, open it, check it out.Ģ) For Review: Team member figures out who needs to provide input on the source document and contacts the person for their review. 1) Unprocessed: Any Source file that we want to add to the database goes here.

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