| Title: | Nabonidus archaeology |
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| Description: | Nabonidus is an online collaborative tool to publish the results of excavations in a simple and effective way. The website is organised as an online database and any data entered may be made immediately available to the public as soon as entered. The major benefit is that by preparing a standardised service, results from different excavations will be comparable and archaeologists may find useful the possibility to use a predefined database that does not require substantial technological expertise. Nabonidus allows to have a dynamic preliminary report ready in real time after recording the data on-site, but this is also its main drawback: some excavators may prefer not to publish information on new findings as they are found, in which case storing data on a public server would not be advisable. The flexibility of creating custom fields is also not available at the time of review. Nabonidus is free for universities and non-profit organisations; a subscription fee is required for commercial use. Smaller projects, rescue archaeology and commercial archaeology may benefit from this tool as it can save both time and money; larger or more complex projects may be less suitable for the present version of Nabonidus. Nabonidus is not yet fully functional at the time of the review, but is complete enough for its functionality to be independently assessed. |
| Type: | Services; Software |
| URL: | http://www.nabonidus.org/ |
| Classification: |
Humanities > Archaeology > Computing and archaeology |
| Resource creator: | Wood, Sam (Programmer) |
| Resource creator: | Ellis, Steven (Collaborator), University of Michigan |
| Resource creator: | McCallum, Myles (Collaborator), University of Nevada |
| Resource creator: | Scorziello, Aimee (Collaborator), Harvard University |
| Country of origin: | United States |
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