Over the last 10 years I have worked on many academic and commercial excavations and have seen the need for a modern approach to data handling both onsite and off. The result is www.nabonidus.org - the culmination of a year’s work by archaeologists and software developers. It is an evolving website for the storage, management, manipulation and publication of excavation data. It is totally free and we think far advanced of any data recording system in use on any academic or commercial excavation today.
The reason for offering Nabonidus to the archaeological community is that we believe a system such as this could change archaeological excavation and research across the world. It is currently used by the Pompeii Archaeological Research Project: Porta Stabia run by the University of Michigan and Stanford University and has the capacity to be used by 1000’s of excavations. All data is secure and private, accessible and malleable and the system can be adapted to any excavation’s needs. Nabonidus saves enormous amounts of work and time for archaeologists both onsite and during post excavation research. Even if you are currently using a database for your excavation, all information can be easily imported from this into the Nabonidus system. Please if you have the time; take a look at the website and at the demonstration excavations and feel free to experiment. There is a PDF attached with more information.
Nabonidus is produced on an entirely voluntary basis. It has been built by archaeologists for archaeologists so if you have any questions or contributions please get in touch at administrator@nabonidus.org – your suggestions will be incorporated into the next build. Thank you for reading this
Sam Wood
Nabonidus Administrator
