Virtual Institute for Spatial Technologies in Archaeology

Founded in 1997, VISTA aims to bring together archaeologists with a special interest in spatial information technologies to form an international virtual workgroup. Our initial project is the development of a joint curriculum and educational resources for teaching IT within archaeology programs. Our longer term aims are the development of archaeological research projects with a strong IT base and international cooperation. For a more detailed discussion, see our charter, below. 

• VISTA teaching modules (under development, November 1998)

• Zipped template for a course using the VISTA teaching modules
  (simply unzip into an appropriate directory and edit with an HTML or web site editor)

The VISTA teaching modules are based primarily on the following web-based or IT-based courses (note - links may be broken as course web sites are updated from year to year):

• 1997 : 1998 : Introduction to computers, data management & GIS in Archaeology 
  (University of Sydney - Ian Johnson & Andrew Wilson)
• 1997 : 1998 : Information technologies for Archaeologists, Anthropologists, Geographers & Historians 
  (University of Arkansas - W. Fredrick Limp & Dori Gould)
• 1998: Archaeological GIS 
  (University of Southampton - Dave Wheatley)
• 1997: Archaeological GIS 
  (University of Ljublajna - Zoran Stancic)

• Charter 
• Members 
• Research Projects

pages maintained by Sydney University Archaeological Computing Laboratory