KAS Magazine and Newsletter archive now fully accessible online
We are pleased to report the complete archive of the KAS Magazine (formerly the KAS Newsletter) are now fully accessible on the KAS Website for the first time.
Since the first issue in Spring 1982 the publication has become a trove of almost 2,000 news and research articles, reviews and obituaries, events and exhibition programs from archaeology and local history groups across the county. It has also often served as the Society’s primary communication channel, tracking the Society’s activities, administrators and membership as they have evolved over the past 43 years. Among the articles are many contemporary news and research items from the original timespan of projects and excavations (those preliminary reports that all too often turned out to be final!), and of course includes many features and voices from friends and benefactors of Kentish history and archaeology that are no longer with us.
The archive is composed of PDF (Portable Document Format) files of scanned documents and original digital files, provided alongside HTML format reproductions (HyperText Markup Language; i.e. webpage format). HTML is the standard for online publication and ensures a correct, searchable and copyable transcript, including images and hyperlinks, are fully accessible on all size devices from mobile to wall screens, including a range of assistive technologies such as screen readers.
All images from scanned documents have been reproduced at the highest quality obtainable from the hardcopy and edited in postprocessing; not dissimilar to digital restoration of a film. We hope to ensure the archive is of use to researchers and the public anywhere in the world for years to come. A similar project to provide access to the 145 volumes and 4,000+ articles forming the Archaeologia Cantiana archive is nearing its final stages and a report on this work will feature in the next issue of the KAS Magazine.
www.kentarchaeology.org.uk/magazine
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