Intended Users and “Use Cases”

The end users of AHAD are intended to be:

• Historical Archaeologist researchers
• Tertiary/Academic
• Private-sector consultants
• Curators/Collection Managers
• Government Archaeologists/Administrators

Some of the things we intend for them to be able to do are:

• Upload their own datasets
• Share datasets with their contemporaries
• Create their own ontologies & coding sheets
• Integrate their datasets with those of their contemporaries
• Search in datasets for specific terms

The application we have selected (tDAR) allows for all of these functions and more. We will, of course, have to add some functionality to the system… but the application’s open source model means that we can contribute additional functions back to the original developers.