Museum Archaeology & Heritage

‘Mash-up Archaeology’ aggregates web content on museum archaeology and archaeological heritage. It takes advantage of web feeds (such as RSS) and basic mash-up technology to aggregate automatically web content on these topics.

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Mashup Archaeology

Aggregating museum archaeology & archaeological heritage

‘Mash-up Archaeology’ aggregates web content on museum archaeology and archaeological heritage. It takes advantage of web feeds (such as RSS) and basic mash-up technology to aggregate automatically web content on these topics.

Aggregated content includes new journal articles, new publications, and relevant news items appearing in traditional mass media, as well as content from Web 2.0 media, such as blogs, podcasts, videocasts, social bookmarks and other social networking sites. The types, themes and sources of this content have been selected through front-end evaluation and research and are constantly updated.

‘Mash-up Archaeology’ is part of a University of Manchester project that aims to explore the use of web feeds and basic mash-up technology in postgraduate and third year undergraduate teaching and learning. A primary objective is to familiarise students with Web 2.0 applications (such as blogs, social bookmarking etc) and develop transferrable skills in filtering and assessing the value and relevance of diverse web content to their own study. It is also anticipated that the website will reduce substantially the time that students may spend in finding, filtering and revisiting websites to access new content. ‘Mash-up Archaeology’ contributes towards the e-learning element of teaching and learning at the University of Manchester. However, the website is intended to be a point of reference for a wide range of museum, archaeology and heritage studies courses throughout the UK and abroad.

The project has been funded by the Higher Education Academy, Subject Centre for History, Classics and Archaeology. Dr Kostas Arvanitis and Dr Siân Jones (Archaeology, University of Manchester) are the investigators of the project.

Suggest a web feed

If you would like to find out more about the project or suggest a feed of a website relevant to the aims and content of ‘Mash-up Archaeology’ please e-mail Dr Kostas Arvanitis or Dr Siân Jones.

Contact

Dr Kostas Arvanitis,
kostas.arvanitis@manchester.ac.uk
www.manchester.ac.uk/museology

Dr Siân Jones,
sian.jones@manchester.ac.uk
www.arts.manchester.ac.uk/subjectareas/archaeology