Third VERA Winter Workshop – Wednesday 2nd December 2009
"Digital field recording and publication in archaeology"

The VERA project invites you to a workshop entitled "Digital field recording and publication in archaeology" to be held in the Archaeology Department of the University of Reading on Wednesday 2nd December 2009.

The JISC funded Virtual Research Environment for Archaeology (VERA) project ran from July 2007 to March 2009 (http://vera.rdg.ac.uk). Its overall aims where to enhance the documenting and archiving of archaeological data, create a Web portal that would provided enhanced tools for the VRE users and then to develop and test utilities that would help encapsulate the working practices of current research archaeologists unfamiliar with virtual research environments.

The aim of this third workshop is to show what the project has achieved during its lifetime. This included three seasons of excavation at Silchester, digital data capture, and further development of the IADB. We also hope to discuss more broadly the future of Virtual Research Environments and Archaeology. The day will begin with coffee around 10am with talks scheduled to finish at around 4:30pm.

More details, including a timetable and directions to the university, can be found on the VERA website at: http://vera.rdg.ac.uk/events/winter_workshop_3.php

Places are limited and priority will be given to all current IADB users, but there will also be places for other archaeologists interested in the VERA project, so please get in touch by emailing e.oriordan@reading.ac.uk by the 25th November if you are interested!

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