Digital Recording, Fieldwork and Craft at Museum of London Archaeology

通过数字记录技术的应用，我们创建了新的信息框架，我们通过这些框架记录考古遗址，从而使其可视化，我们通过新的方法来评估和了解所述遗址，以及我们通过新的查询路线来应用这些信息。现有的考古知识词汇已经与该学科的词汇发展一致，这些词汇提供了我们用来标记、组织和最终交流此类知识的基本框架。本学科技术创新的优先情况(放射性碳测年、地球物理调查、地理信息系统等)不仅开始探索新的信息来源，而且还开始对考古词典进行后续修订，因为这些信息被吸收到考古工作流程中。新信息来源的提供，不仅提供了评估过去的新数据点，而且词典的修订也改变了我们描述、交流并最终理解过去的语言。有人建议，数字记录技术的发展和应用也同样预示着考古词汇的修订，从而也预示着我们调查、评估和理解过去的知识框架的修订，这不仅导致考古/历史叙事的修订，而且最终导致我们理解所述叙事的理论框架的修订。这种修订不仅影响考古知识的状态，而且还影响整个遗产部门的结构。随着新技术的引入，因此需要新的技能集，修改工作做法，在某些情况下完全放弃；这些发展反过来不可避免地对考古项目的结构和人员配置、报告的内容和重点产生影响，并在宏观上标志着考古调查重点和主题的大范围趋势的发展(与考古学词汇和理论结构的变化相互作用并得到加强/得到加强的自我维持过程)。数字记录技术的引入在某种程度上已经在英国考古学内部引发了这种变化，遗址和文物的创新可视化正在开辟新的研究途径，从外部专业派生的技术语言正在被引入，强调计算机编程、数学、在商业和学术领域，数据可视化变得越来越普遍。这项研究提案的目的是绘制这些变化的因果关系图；首先，通过审查1970-2000年期间现有技术的影响，将制定一个标准化的框架和术语，绘制关键载体、趋势和利益攸关方的图表；其次，将该框架应用于有关采用数字记录技术的一系列经验证据和轶事证据。产生的数据集将被用来勾勒由于引入数字记录技术而导致的遗产部门内的大规模趋势，评估其在考古工作流程中的使用和利用，并审查英国考古学研究重点和就业结构内的新出现的因果模式。

Through the application of digital recording technologies we create new frameworks of information by which we record and thus visualise archaeological sites, new methodologies by which we assess and understand said sites, and new lines of enquiry by which we apply said information. Existing lexicons of archaeological knowledge have been developed in-line with that of the subject, such lexicons provide the basic framework by which we label, organise, and ultimately communicate such knowledge. Prior circumstances of technological innovation within the subject (radiocarbon dating, geophysical survey, geographical information systems etc.) have initiated not only the exploration of new sources of information but subsequent revisions of the archaeological lexicon as said information is assimilated into the archaeological workflow. The provision of new sources of information, not only provide new data-points by which to assess the past, but revisions of the lexicon change the language by which we describe, communicate, and thus ultimately understand the past.It is proposed that the development and application of digital recording technologies will likewise presage a revision of the archaeological lexicon and thus the frameworks of knowledge by which we investigate, assess, and understand the past leading to revisions not only in the archaeological/historical narrative but ultimately the theoretical frameworks by which we understand said narrative.Such revisions not only impact upon the state of archaeological knowledge but also the structure of the Heritage Sector as a whole. As new technologies are introduced thus new skill sets are required, working practices modified, and in some cases discarded entirely; such developments in-turn inevitably have impacts upon the structure and staffing of archaeological projects, the content and emphasis of reporting and on a macro-level mark the development of wide-scale trends in the focus and subject of archaeological investigation (a self-sustaining process that interacts with, and reinforces/is reinforced by changes in the lexicon and theoretical structures of archaeology).The introduction of digital recording technologies has to some extent already initiated such changes within British archaeology, innovative visualisations of sites and artefacts are opening new avenues of research, technical language derived from external specialisations is being introduced, and positions emphasising a background in computer programming, mathematics, and data-visualisation are increasingly becoming available within the commercial and academic spheres.It is the intention of this research proposal to chart the cause and effect of such changes; firstly through the review of the impact of prior technologies during 1970-2000 from which a standardised framework and terminology will be developed charting key vectors, trends, and stakeholders, secondly through the application of said framework to a range of empirical and anecdotal evidence regarding the introduction of digital recording technology. The resulting data-set will be used to frame large-scale trends within the Heritage sector as a consequence of the introduction of digital recording technology, assess its usage and utilisation within the archaeological workflow, and review emergent patterns of cause and effect both within the foci of study and the structure of employment within UK archaeology.