The Newport Medieval Sh6ip: Publication, Representation, Dissemination

纽波特船是近代在英国发现的最坚固的中世纪船。它的发现引发了学术界和更广泛的兴趣，并引发了一场声势浩大的大众运动，最终将其拯救出来进行研究、保护和展示。自挖掘以来的十年里，在一个专门的船舶中心进行了大量的文献和研究计划。随着保护工作的进行，以及最近宣布的建立一个新博物馆来展示这艘船的计划，这艘船的权威出版物是及时的。其目的是制作一份实质性的出版物，讲述这艘船的发现及其最初的建造、生活和消亡的故事，以一种广泛的读者可以接受的形式，反映出自发现以来所表现出的兴趣水平。记录了成千上万的木材和其他与船只有关的物体，形成了一个无与伦比的三维绘图、激光扫描、照片和其他数字资产档案。在传统出版物的同时，这个数字档案将提交给考古数据服务，使所有研究人员都能通过互联网获得。这艘船代表了中世纪晚期在大西洋沿岸建造的熟料船的罕见幸存。超过25米的原始船只被恢复，使用三维数字记录技术详细记录了拆卸的木材，为了解中世纪时期使用的最复杂的机器提供了无与伦比的机会。出版物汇集了船舶本身的文件和分析，以及相关的索具，绳索，皮革，纺织品，金属制品和其他人工制品和环境材料的组合。通过树木年代学来确定这艘船到达纽波特的精确日期，就有可能将这艘船置于15世纪晚期的特定历史背景中。在这个考古项目中，数字技术的创新使用对传统出版物提出了挑战，同时也提供了利用可访问的数字档案传播研究的新模式的机会。以二维图纸和公式化文字描述的形式出版成千上万的船舶木材是不合适的，也不可持续的，并且会降低在文件编制过程中产生的三维记录的质量。通过将这些纳入可访问的数字档案，研究人员可以以传统出版物无法实现的方式访问和询问原始数据，并且可以查看诸如动画之类的数字可视化，以加强对研究成果的解释和传播。因此，本项目旨在解决数字转型的重点问题，探索如何参与数字环境，需要适应我们持有、分享和展示知识和研究的方式。这项研究的综合代表了威尔士三一圣大卫大学与纽波特博物馆和遗产服务之间的持续合作。综合出版物和档案是新博物馆发展的重要阶段，该博物馆将与新港的其他收藏品一起重新组装，展示和解释。

The Newport Ship is the most substantial medieval ship found in Britain in modern times. Its discovery triggered academic and wider interest and a vigorous, popular campaign leading to its rescue for study, conservation and display. Over the decade since its excavation, a substantial programme of documentation and research has been undertaken at a dedicated ship centre. With conservation under way, and plans for a new museum to exhibit the ship recently announced, authoritative publication of the ship is timely. The intention is to produce a substantial publication telling the story of the discovery of the ship and its original construction, life, and demise, in a form accessible to a wide audience reflecting the level of interest shown since its discovery. Recording the thousands of timbers and other objects associated with the ship has produced an unparalleled archive of three-dimensional drawings and laser scans, photographs and other digital assets. In parallel with traditional publication, this digital archive will be submitted to the Archaeological Data Service, making it available to all researchers via the internet. The ship represents a rare survival of a clinker-built ship of the late medieval period, constructed on the Atlantic seaboard. Over 25m of the original ship was recovered with the dismantled timbers recorded in detail using three-dimensional digital recording technologies providing an unparalleled opportunity to understand arguably the most complex machine in use during the medieval period. Publication brings together the documentation and analysis of the ship itself, and associated assemblages of rigging, rope, leather, textiles, metalwork and other artefacts and environmental material. Given precise dating of the ship's arrival in Newport through dendrochronology, it is possible to place the ship in its particular historical context in the late 15th century.The innovative use of digital technologies in this archaeological project raises challenges with traditional publication while offering opportunities to exploit new modes of dissemination of research through accessible digital archives. The publication of thousands of ship timbers as two-dimensional drawings and formulaic text descriptions would not be appropriate, or sustainable, and degrade the quality of the three-dimensional record produced during documentation. By including these in an accessible digital archive, researchers can access and interrogate the original data in ways not possible through traditional publication, and digital visualisations such as animations can be viewed to enhance interpretation and dissemination of research findings. As such this project seeks to address the highlight notice digital transformations, exploring how engagement with the digital environment, requires adaptation in the ways we hold, share, and present knowledge and research.The synthesis of this research represents a sustained collaboration between the University of Wales Trinity Saint David and the Newport Museum and Heritage service. The integrated publication and archive proposed form an essential stage in the development of a new museum where the ship will be reassembled, displayed and interpreted alongside Newport's other collections.