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DAACS debuts on the web at http://www.daacs.org. |
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Development of DAACS website, including SQL query functionality, in collaboration with Category 4, Inc. and the Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities at the University of Virginia. |
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Data analysis and entry for the following sites: Building r, s, t, o and l at Monticello, ST116 at Stratford Plantation, House for Families at Mount Vernon, and the Palace Lands Quarter and Richneck Quarter Sites, both near Williamsburg, Virginia. |
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The National Endowment for the Humanities awards DAACS a $500,000 Challenge Grant for the endowment of the Archive. |
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DAACS database application is stable. Data entry begins. |
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Two Archaeological Analysts, responsible for analysis of artifacts and context records, and data entry, are hired. |
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The archive's data structures are revised, based on continuing consultation with Steering Committee members. Development begins on the DAACS database application, which instantiates those protocols. The DAACS database application consists of a MS-SQL server back end, with an Access front end, with VBA customization to expedite data entry. |
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Steering Committee Workshop is held at Monticello. This two-day conference focuses on historical and archaeological goals for DAACS and how they might be achieved. Drafts of the archive's protocols and data structures are presented and critiqued. |
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Galle and Fraser Neiman begin sustained work identifying analytical needs, developing classification and measurement protocols, and the logical structure of the database, in collaboration with archaeological colleagues from around the Chesapeake who comprise the DAACS Steering Committee. |
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Jillian Galle is appointed DAACS Project Manager. |
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Monticello's Archaeology Department receives a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to fund the DAACS project for an initial 4 years. |
ignificant milestones in the history the DAACS project to date include:
