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This project has been undertaken by the then Department of
Archaeology and the Department
of Geography at the University of Edinburgh, and sponsored by
Historic
Scotland. Two major stages were involved in the compilation of the
SPA Database. The first stage involved the construction of a site index
database (The Scottish Palaeoecological Site Index) designed for use by a
researcher on their own PC. The second stage included the conversion of
SPSI to comprise a multi-user database, accessable through the web and the
addition of substantially greater detail to the data records themselves.
- The original Project Managers and Principal Investigators were:
- Bruce Gittings (System Design and Implementation, Department of Geography)
- Geraint Coles (Data Collation and Editing, Department of Archaeology)
- Patrick Ashmore (Project Initiation, Historic Scotland)
- Richard Tipping
(University of Stirling) was a project consultant, and was a principal
investigator during the initial (SPSI) phase of the project – much of
the initial impetus for this work comes from his report (with Professor
John Lowe, 1994) for Scottish Natural Heritage on the need for a
palaeoecological archive.
- Bill Finlayson of the
Centre for Field Archaeology, University of Edinburgh, was responsible for the initial
contract and financial management.
- System Design and Implementation:
- Anthony Newton (SPA Database Design and Web Implementation and subsequent Principal Investigator)
- Tim Hodges (SPSI Database Design and Implementation)
- Alistair Bradbrook (SPA Pilot Implementation)
- Seth Finegan (GIS Integration)
- Data Collation and Editing:
- Paula Milburn (SPA and
SPSI)
- Simon Wyatt (SPSI)
- Other valuable contributions from:
- Roelf Dapper
- Philip Immirzi (Scottish Natural Heritage)
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