Significant milestones in the history of the DAACS project to date include:
April 2010 |
Artifact, context, and spatial data from the St. Kitts-Nevis Digital Archaeology Initiative research are launched on the DAACS website. This work was funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Joint Information Systems Committee. |
April 2010 |
Artifact, context, and spatial data from Building i, Building c and the West Kitchen Yard, located on Mulberry Row at Monticello, are launched on the DAACS website. |
April 2010 |
Two new Chesapeake sites are launched: NAVAIR, a quarter site in Maryland, and the Pope site, located in Southampton County, Virginia. NAVAIR, a small quarter site, is the only remaining component of the Mattpany Plantation. The Pope Site consists of at least four domestic structures, one most likely housed the Ridley Family while the other three likely housed enslaved laborers. |
April 2010 |
The Stewart-Watkins site goes live on the DAACS website. This site was home to two skilled white laborers who worked for Thomas Jefferson between 1800 and 1810. This is the first domestic site that is not a slave quarter to be made available through the archive. |
July 2008 |
Middleburg Plantation (South Carolina) goes live on the DAACS website. Artifact, context, and spatial data, as well as images and site maps, are available for viewing and downloading. This site contains nearly 100,000 artifacts. |
May-July 2008 |
DAACS, The University of Southampton (UK), and the International Slavery Museum (UK) conduct shovel-test-pit survey on five slave village sites, four on Nevis and one on St. Kitts. |
March 2008 |
The Joint Information Systems Committee and the National Endowment for the Humanities awards DAACS, The University of Southampton (UK), and the International Slavery Museum (UK) a Transatlantic Digital Collaboration Grant for The St. Kitts-Nevis Digital Archaeology Initiative. |
January 2007 |
DAACS launches data from four sites at Montpelier Plantation and two sites from Seville Plantation, both large-scale 18th-century sugar estates in Jamaica. These are the first Caribbean sites to be offered through the Archive. |
January 2007 |
DAACS launches data from two quarter sites in Maryland, Chapline Place and Ashcomb’s Quarter. These are the first Maryland sites to be offered through the Archive. |
January-May 2006 |
The DAACS lab moves to Kingston Jamaica where analysts work with collections housed at the Jamaica National Heritage Trust and The University of the West Indies, Mona. |
January 2004 |
DAACS receives a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to fund the expansion of the DAACS project into the Carolinas and the Caribbean |
January 2004 |
DAACS debuts on the web at http://www.daacs.org. |
March-December 2003 |
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. |
June 2001
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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. |
December 2001 |
The National Endowment for the Humanities awards DAACS a $500,000 Challenge Grant for the endowment of the Archive. |
June 2001 |
DAACS database application is stable. Data entry begins. |
March 2001 |
Two Archaeological Analysts, responsible for analysis of artifacts and context records, and data entry, are hired. |
October 2000
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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. |
October 2000 |
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. |
May-October 2000 |
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. |
May 2000 |
Jillian Galle is appointed DAACS Project Manager. |
January 2000 |
Monticello’s Archaeology Department receives a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to fund the DAACS project for an initial 4 years. |
