Archaeological Bits and Bytes for Profit or Penury:
A do-it-yourself introduction to multimedia publishing


Nick Adams
Adams Heritage Consultants
Newboro, Ontario

Abstract:  Archaeological reports in Print form will soon be obsolete. 
When a three hundred page, three pound thesis can be contained within a 
megabyte or two or easily distributable computer files as a stand-alone 
programme, and a complete archaeological library can be held on a couple 
of CD-ROMs, who needs paper? The search functions and hypertext 
capabilities of modern programming allow instant access to the data you 
are looking for - no more torn pages, broken spines, coffee stains or 
endless thumbing through page after page looking for some obscure 
reference or drawing! Isn't it time you distributed your masterpiece as an 
interactive programme?

Using various on-screen examples I will introduce the methods I use to 
create multimedia software. Go behind the scenes of my Prehistory of 
Ontario for Windows  software and discover how simple it really is (Hey! 
if I can do it...). Simple programming and computer graphic techniques 
will be explored and I will quickly show how to paste together a simple 
yet functional hypertext document.