ABSTRACT
Researchers at the Ohio State University Excavations at Isthmia and Michigan State University present the Archaeological Resource Cataloging System (ARCS), an open-source software solution created with the support of an NEH Digital Humanities Startup Grant. ARCS is designed to provide low budget archaeological projects with the necessary tools to create an electronic repository of primary documents that have been digitised from legacy data. The software has been custom built with the goal of replicating in the digital realm many of the practices and procedures that have governed the organisation and use of primary archaeological documentation such as fieldbooks, photographs, and other hand written records. With ARCS, a community of users can mark digitised resources with keywords, sort search results into private or shared collections, and create hyperlinks between different types of archival data both within and between research institutions, all without affecting the unique properties of the actual source document.
