How many people actually catalog their finds?
As of right now, I only keep my pieces in individual baggies with a piece of paper that has the date they were found, and the site name.
At one point, I used Avery self adhesive address labels and a 3-hole punch to make a bunch of little round self adhesive labels. I started my numbering out with "1," and got up to about "200" and I used a piece of paper that told me: pieces 1-15 were found at "site name" on "date found." After a while, that got old and tiring, so I stopped.
I'm now thinking about keeping better track of my artifacts, but I want to know if anyone has any recommendations on how to do this and why it may be important.
Since I'm a computer guy (who has unfortunately been unemployed for 3 years (thanks to our economy)), I have found an Access Database from another state, and updated it with information from Ohio. I even updated the Help file to add additional things that I thought was important (such as: using www.geoplaner.com to give me a general idea of what the coordinates are for the site).
I have attached the zipped files for the database. Feel free to look it over and let me know what you think. It's probably allot more elaborate than what it needs to be (for basic artifact cataloging), but I figured it would provide enough data for future historical reference.
Thank you in advance.
OhioArch.zip
As of right now, I only keep my pieces in individual baggies with a piece of paper that has the date they were found, and the site name.
At one point, I used Avery self adhesive address labels and a 3-hole punch to make a bunch of little round self adhesive labels. I started my numbering out with "1," and got up to about "200" and I used a piece of paper that told me: pieces 1-15 were found at "site name" on "date found." After a while, that got old and tiring, so I stopped.
I'm now thinking about keeping better track of my artifacts, but I want to know if anyone has any recommendations on how to do this and why it may be important.
Since I'm a computer guy (who has unfortunately been unemployed for 3 years (thanks to our economy)), I have found an Access Database from another state, and updated it with information from Ohio. I even updated the Help file to add additional things that I thought was important (such as: using www.geoplaner.com to give me a general idea of what the coordinates are for the site).
I have attached the zipped files for the database. Feel free to look it over and let me know what you think. It's probably allot more elaborate than what it needs to be (for basic artifact cataloging), but I figured it would provide enough data for future historical reference.
Thank you in advance.
OhioArch.zip
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