Supporting code, data and documentation for the website Archaeology Near Me
Archaeology Near Me is a new approach to viewing the location of archaeological reports. It takes existing lists and databases of archaeological reports and uses the report titles to geolocate the reports and present these on an interactive map. Databases the site uses include as the NSW Archaeology On-Line Grey Literature Archive, the Heritage NSW Library and the National Library of Australia’s online library catalogue Trove. At present the site is focused on the Australian state of New South Wales.
This Github repository lets you look behind the scenes and see how I have created the website. I hope that it will be useful for people working elsewhere. Over time I’ll add code and Jupyter Notebooks - combinations of code and text that let you see how I’ve incorporated short bits of code with other manual methods to create Archaeology Near Me.
Here you can Read my walk through to geocoding reports from Trove
Please contact me if you have any questions at @archaeology-near-me.com"">contact@archaeology-near-me.com
All descriptive text is released under a CC-BY licence. Please acknowledge and appropriately cite this work in any publications or grey literature that uses Archaeology Near Me.
For more information on Jupyter Notebooks and their use in history and cultural heritage, see Tim Sherratt’s website - (https://glam-workbench.github.io/),
For a helpful introduction to coding and other methods for history and the Digital Humanities, see The Programming Historian(https://programminghistorian.org/).
Nick Pitt, 22 September 2020