Format for Research Reports page

Council for
West Virginia Archaeology

FORMAT for material submitted for the Recent Research section

The first column needs all of the following, which enables users to search the project listing page for key words such as “Monongalia” or “South Branch”. The second column would be a brief abstract. I can format these easily, you can just submit the text.

Title or Project Name
PI: Name and affiliation
For: Sponsoring agency or organization
County, District:
Watershed: Taken from a standardized list
Type of work: (e.g., site identification study, significance evaluation, data recovery, research paper)
Date of work:

Report 14C dates using the SAA standard format as uncalibrated radiocarbon ages:
(1) based on the 5,568-year 14C ("Libby") half-life (divide radiocarbon ages based on the 5,730-year half-life by 1.03);
(2) expressed as radiocarbon years (RCY), do not convert to radiocarbon or calibrated years A.D./B.C.;
(3) with the 1-sigma standard error;
(4) with the sample identification number given by the laboratory;
(5) stating what material was dated; and
(6) whether corrected for isotopic fractionation. If a 13C value was given by the laboratory, then this correction has been made, so provide the 13C value.
Example: 3680 ± 60 (Pts-3964; wood charcoal; 13C = -23.8 [or, uncorrected].

If you want to link to a longer piece, the webmaster will help create a simple text page. If you want to include graphics, you will have to provide the finished work.

The html file and illustrations, if any, will be placed in its own subdirectory, so write the html code such that links to illustrations are locally referenced.
Follow the convention that filenames are lowercase with no spaces.
For speedy loading, strive to keep the file size of illustrations under 25k; they should exceed 50k only for exceptional graphics. As a guide, illustrations that are 300 pixels wide cover about half the width of the screen when monitor resolution is set at 800x600. Line drawings look good and save space when saved as 4-bit jpegs or gifs (16 shades of gray).
Illustrations must be the same size as that used in the page (i.e., do not upload a 1600x1200 pixel illustration to display at 320x240 on the page).

The Council will claim copyright to all material.

Use the following html code for the heading:

<head>
<title>TITLE OF YOUR PAGE</title>
<meta name="copyright" content="© Council For West Virginia Archaeology 2004">
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</head>
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<div align="center">
<p><font class=logo>Council for <br>West Virginia Archaeology</font> </p>
<p><font size="-1"><<a href="../research_reports.htm" class="INTROLINKS">
Click here</a>> to Return to Recent Research Page</font></p>
</div>

Use the following code at the end of the document:

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<td> <a href="../research_reports.htm" target=_parent class="INTROLINKS"><font size="-1">
Return to Recent Research Page </font></a> </td>

<td align="center" valign="top"> <a href="../../copyright.html" class="INTROLINKS">
<font size="-1">© 2004 CWVA </font> </a> </td>

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