Field Survey of the Blue Mountains World Heritage Area, NSW (FAIMS3)

About this notebook:

This notebook was created for the field survey of the Nellies Glen and Ruined Castle areas located in the Blue Mountains National Park as part of the Australian Research Council Linkage project History, heritage and environmental change in a deindustrialised landscape led by Associate Professor Tanya Evans, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia, in partnership with the Blue Mountains World Heritage Institute, Lantern Heritage and Mountains Heritage. The project investigates a 19th-century shale-mining community in Jamison Valley through archaeological and archival research complemented by oral histories.

The notebook has been designed for field survey of the historic mining heritage site in the Jamison Valley, near Katoomba.

Authorship:

This module was co-developed by Penny Crook, Shawn Ross, Bec Parkes, Fiona Leslie and Susan Lupack. It is based on an earlier FAIMS module (https://github.com/FAIMS/bmwhi-survey-2018) co-developed by Shawn Ross and Adela Sobotkova and Petra Janouchova at the FAIMS Project, Department of Ancient History, Macquarie University. It was implemented by Christian Nassif-Haynes, Department of Ancient History, Macquarie University. Module modifications were authored by Penny Crook, Department of Modern History, International Relations, and Politics, Macquarie University and Brian Ballsun-Stanton, Faculty of Arts, Macquarie University.

Funding:

Australian Research Council Linkage project History, heritage and environmental change in a deindustrialised landscape (LP190100900 2020-2022).

Date of release:

(September 2022)

FAIMS3 version:

FAIMS v3 (Android 11+)

Licence:

This module is licensed under an international Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 Licence (CC BY 4.0).

Access:

The module can be downloaded from this GitHub repository.

This module contains the following features:

relational field
validated fields with user observations
coordinates from internal GPS
photo capture on device

This module can be used with no or minor modification for:

archaeological field survey
field school or hands-on archaeological training

Contact info:

For more details about the Linkage project History, heritage and environmental change in a deindustrialised landscape please visit https://mq-cah.github.io/BlueMntARC/ or the Blue Mountains World Heritage Institute's site http://www.bmwhi.org.au/ or contact Shawn Ross at shawn@faims.edu.au.