2006: an overview

An incomplete, retrospective list of work, talks and more in 2006…

I gave a talk on the Design and development of the Dyson Archive of medieval London property transactions (Powerpoint slides) at a seminar on 'The Dyson Archive of medieval London property transactions: a seminar to discuss future work', June 12, 2006, London Archaeological Archive and Research Centre. I also published on The Tony Dyson Archive Project, with Nathalie Cohen and Nick Holder: a 'report of a pilot study investigating the creation of a digital archive of medieval property transactions along the City waterfront'.

Photo of a figurine of a bear in a museum display
Bear figurine at Catalhoyuk Exhibition, Istanbul

I worked at Çatalhöyük in Turkey over the summer and in the off-season, some of which is documented in Archive report: Çatalhöyük Archive Report 2006; there's an excerpt of my main bits at https://doi.org/10.17613/2shn-2v07.

Çatalhöyük blog posts, 2006:

I gave a paper: Clay pipe recording at MoLAS and the stamped makers' mark website at the SCPR Annual Conference, September 16, 2006, London Archaeological Archive and Research Centre, Mortimer Wheeler House: 'The paper discusses the process from initial specification through requirements gathering, database design, development of the database application and website, to publication online'.

I gave a seminar paper on 'The IT Strategy for Exploring 20th Century London' for the Exploring 20th Century London Project, September 25, 2006, at the Museum in Docklands, London.

After working in Turkey I travelled through Romania, Moldova, Transdniestr, and Ukraine.

Paper: Clay pipe recording at MoLAS and the stamped pipes makers’ mark website

Paper: Clay pipe recording at MoLAS and the stamped makers' mark website

SCPR Annual Conference, September 16, 2006
London Archaeological Archive and Research Centre, Mortimer Wheeler House

The paper discusses the process from initial specification through requirements gathering, database design, development of the database application and website, to publication online.  This was later published in the Newsletter of the Society for Clay Pipe Research.

Update, December 2011: if you're interested in clay pipes, you may be interested in Locating London's Past. The site also has an article that explains how Museum of London Archaeology (MoLA) Datasets – including clay pipes and glass – have been incorporated into the site.  NB: other than adding these links, I haven't updated the original 2006 paper, so it doesn't include any enhancements made for this new work.  On a personal note, it's lovely to see that the sites, and the backend work behind them, still have value.

Update, November 2012: the Society for Clay Pipe Research's Newsletter featured as Guest Publication in the BBC's Have I Got News For You. Fame, at last!

Society for Clay Pipe Research Newsletter on Have I Got News For You

Update, January 2015: possibly the best clay pipe ever?

Archive report: Çatalhöyük Archive Report 2006

As the Çatalhöyük Archive Report 2006 is only available online as a large PDF, I've copied the report below [update: and put the PDF on Humanities Commons at https://doi.org/10.17613/2shn-2v07], but you can find additional reporting of my work in specialist reports like the Figurines report. I also contributed to the Çatalhöyük blog during the 2006 season.

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My Flickr album of photos from 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 on-site (plus trips to Konya and journeys to and from site)

Çatalhöyük blog posts, 2006:

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