Digital Antiquity continually works to improve preservation and management of digital archaeological data. This commitment was instantiated in the first tDAR software release during the Summer of 2010. This initial release, Azimuth, was focused primarily on infrastructure and data entry issues. Major accomplishments included:
- Setting up a predictable development and test environment.
- Developing a Digital Antiquity and tDAR website
- Unifying the look and feel of the tDAR application and the tDAR website
- Reviewing the data dictionary for tDAR and simplifying the model
- Enhancing the data entry screens to optimize a user’s productivity
- Enabling public access to tDAR metadata without requiring a user to login
- Consistently displaying all metadata for records to users including metadata inherited from parent projects
- Adding context-sensitive help to the data entry screens
- Adding auto-entry (auto-complete) for Authors, Editors, and other personal relationships within tDAR
- Enhancing general performance
- Developed auto-suggestion model for mapping ontologies to values within tDAR