Dr Penny Crook1, Professor Shawn Ross1, Dr Brian Ballsun-Stanton1, Dr Steve Cassidy1, Dr Jens Klump2, Associate Professor Adela Sobotkova3
1Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia, 2CSIRO Mineral Resources, Perth, Australia, 3Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
The Field Acquired Information Management Systems (FAIMS) Project has been supporting researchers in offline digital data capture and management on Android devices since 2014. In 2020 the Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC) and 19 partners invested in us to rebuild the FAIMS Mobile Platform from the ground up (ARDC Platforms project doi: 10.47486/PL110). Our new software, Fieldmark, is cross-platform (Android, iOS and desktop), offers more flexible synchronisation, new integrations, a DIY option for customisation, and a sleek new look. As we prepare for its public release in 2023 we present the current set of features, those on the roadmap for future development, and our plans for sustaining this open-source software in a commercial setting.
Biography:
Penny Crook (BA Hons USyd, PhD LTU) is a historical archaeologist who specialises in urban assemblage analysis and material-culture studies and digital data management. She was a founding member of the original FAIMS Leadership team between 2012 and 2014 before taking up a DECRA fellowship at La Trobe University, pursuing the examination of quality in historical archaeological assemblage analysis and conducting price and text analysis of data from 19th-century store catalogues. Between 2018 and 2020 she served as Research Fellow in the Department of History & Archaeology, La Trobe University, working on small grants, including the analysis of recently excavated assemblages from the Sydney CBD and assisting in data management projects. In July 2020 she joined the FAIMS 3.0 leadership team. (https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8509-7865)