Hostname: page-component-586b7cd67f-t8hqh Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-11-30T21:07:08.856Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Archaeology, Museums, and the World Wide Web

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 January 2017

Lindsay Allason-Jones ,
Colm O'Brien  and
Glyn Goodrick
Lindsay Allason-Jones
Affiliation:
Museum of Antiquities, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, Great Britain
Glyn Goodrick
Affiliation:
Archaeological Practice, Dept of Archaeology, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, Great Britain
Get access

Extract

Although archaeology is the study of the past, archaeologists have always been among the first to espouse the latest technology of the present to further their ends. The World Wide Web is no exception; but how is this to benefit archaeology and what are the short- and long-term gains to be expected? On 1st June 1995, the Museum of Antiquities of the University and Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle upon Tyne was the first museum in Britain to release a museum exhibition in virtual form on to the Internet via the World Wide Web (WWW). Its location on the Internet (the URL) is http://www.ncl.ac.uk/∼nantiq/index.html. In this article, the authors will use the experience gained directly from this experiment to open the debate about communicating archaeology via the Internet.

Type
Articles
Information
Journal of European Archaeology , Volume 3 , Issue 2 , Autumn 1995 , pp. 33 - 42
Copyright
Copyright © European Association of Archaeologists 

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

Barnes, Trevor J. and Duncan, James S., 1992. Writing Worlds. Discourse, text and metaphor in the representation of landscape. London: Routledge.Google Scholar
Bruce, John, 1863. The Handbook to Hadrian's Wall (1st edition; 13th edition 1978, Daniels, C. M., ed.). Newcastle upon Tyne: Hill.Google Scholar
Butts, David J., 1990. Nga Tukemata: Nga Taonga o Ngati Kahungunu (The Awakening: The Treasures of Ngati Kahungunu). In Gathercole, P. and Lowenthal, D. (eds.), The Politics of the Past: 107–117. London: Unwin Hyman.Google Scholar
Clifford, James 1988. The Predicament of Culture: Twentieth Century Ethnography, Literature and Art. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.Google Scholar
Eco, Umberto, 1979. The Role of the Reader. London: Hutchinson.Google Scholar
Fry, Robin, 1995. Whose right is it? Museums Journal (August 1995): 33.Google Scholar
Kroll, Ed, 1994. The Whole Internet: User's Guide and Catalogue. 2nd edition. Sebastopol, CA: O'Reilly and Associates.Google Scholar
Lowenthal, David, 1990 Conclusions: archaeologists and others. In Gathercole, P. and Lowenthal, D. (eds.), The Politics of the Past: 301–314. London: Unwin Hyman.Google Scholar
O'Reagan, Stephen, 1990. Maori control of the Maori heritage. In Gathercole, P. and Lowenthal, D. (eds), The Politics of the Past: 95–106. London: Unwin Hyman.Google Scholar
Sim, Steve, 1995. The information superhighway. In Day, G. (ed.), Museum Collections and the Information Superhighway: 9–13. London: Science Museum.Google Scholar
Smith, Christopher, 1992. late Stone Age Hunters of the British Isles. London: Routledge.Google Scholar
Wood, Shirley, 1995. The SuperJANET network. In Day, G. (ed.), Museum Collections and the Information Superhighway: 79–84. London: Science Museum.Google Scholar