FASTI Online is a database that has been online for 10 years, providing open access to excavation data from 14 countries. It contains records of over 5,100 excavation seasons and 3,300 archaeological sites. The database is built on open source technologies and allows users to search via maps, time periods, site types, and bibliographic references. In the future, the group hopes to expand the geographic and language coverage of site data, improve search functions, and increase connectivity to other datasets and resources.
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1. AIAC & FASTI Online:
10 years of open access excavation
data online
Jessica Ogdenยน, Stuart Eveยน, Elizabeth Fentressยฒ
ยนL - P : Archaeology,
ยฒAssociazione Internazionale di Archeologia Classica (AIAC)
ARIADNE
is
funded
by
the
European
Commission's
Seventh
Framework
Programme
2. AIAC & FASTI Online
โข A brief history of FASTI Online
โข A bit about the technologies used
โข Current state of FASTI
โ Features of FASTI
โข Our users
โข Future of FASTI
www.fastionline.org
3. A brief history of FASTI Online
โข A post-war mechanism for
Rome Institutes to publish
their archaeological findings
โข Managed by AIAC
โข โInterventionsโ published in
note form for institute
libraries
โข Paper publication was
discontinued in 1998 by
AIAC Board of Directors
FASTI Archaeologici:
1946-1987
4. A brief history of FASTI Online
โข In 2003/2004 AIAC, with the help of L - P :
Archaeology, launched FASTI Online v1.0
โข Originally funded by Packard Humanities Institute
โข Series of releases since then, with v3.0 in late 2012
โข The open access FOLD&R (FASTI On Line
Documents & Review) Journal was released in 2004
5. Technologies of FASTI Online
โข ARK: The Archaeological Recording Kit
โข Open source, runs on Apache, MySQL, PHP with
WFS/WMS capabilities
โข ARK under continuous development by L - P :
Archaeology since 2004
6. FOLD&R: the journal of FASTI Online
โข Open access (CC-BY NC), peer-reviewed, scientific
journal - both preliminary and final results of
excavations
7. โข Multi-lingual
โข Spatial
โข Temporal
โข Itโs a database.
What is FASTI Online
8. The current FASTI Online
โข 14 countries represented in 14 languages
โข 5,100 season (โinterventionโ) records with 3,300+ sites
16. FASTI Online
Features of
โข Bibliographic References/Role-based Search
โข Any text field, or just free text
*10,000+
institutions and
people in FASTI
address book
17. Features of FASTI Online
โข Gazetteer of ancient places and related materials
18. Features of FASTI Online
โข Gazetteer of ancient places and related materials
19. Features of FASTI Online
โข Gazetteer of ancient places and related materials
24. The future of FASTI Online
โข Expand spatial/language coverage for sites (Spain is
coming..) - and promote transnational access
โข Help/How-to documentation
โข Improve search functionality - integrating full FOLD&R
PDF search
โข Greater data download capabilities with increased
connectivity (ARIADNE, Open Context, other
gazetteers) and discoverability (as a resource)
25. Get in touch with FASTI Online
Jessica Ogden
j.ogden@lparchaeology.com
General queries to:
info@aiac.org
@fastionline
26. ARIADNE is a project funded by the European Commission
under the Communityโs Seventh Framework Programme, contract
no. FP7-INFRASTRUCTURES-2012-1-313193.
The views and opinions expressed in this presentation are the sole
responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of
the European Commission.