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EXARC 2014 Prospects. MARTIN SCHMIDT EXARC CHAIR. hopes to achieve in 2014. A further growth in the number of EXARC members By introducing Light Membership (a 1-2 year introductory Membership with just access to the online Journal, followed by full Membership)
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EXARC 2014 Prospects MARTIN SCHMIDT EXARC CHAIR
hopes to achieve in 2014 • A further growth in the number of EXARC members • By introducing Light Membership (a 1-2 year introductory Membership with just access to the online Journal, followed by full Membership) • Even more publicity on Social Media • Getting more volunteers involved • More content on our interactive map In the process of adding 100 venues in Europe • Better publicity in the USA, and more members from overseas
hopes to achieve in 2014 • Two Printed EXARC Journal Digests in 2014 (April & September) • Four online EXARC Journal Issues (February, May, August and November) • Paid for 50% by the OpenArch EU project. 3
hopes to achieve in 2014 Since there is more work on EXARC Journal from 2014, we are going to spend more on editors. On the other hand … … we save on postage. Although we send two Digests a year and we have more members we will keep our postage low by using another service. 4
hopes to achieve in 2014 • Proceedings from the conference in SagnlandetLejre we co-hosted on the history of experimental archaeology published in June with discount for our Members. • Paid for 2/3 by SagnlandetLejre
hopes to achieve in 2014 • PR for Archaeological Open‐Air Museums (56 pages) distributed between all our Institutional members in 2014. Individual Members can order it. • Paid for 50% by OpenArch EU project
hopes to achieve in 2014 • We met in Oxford (UK) at the 8th EA UK conference. • We meet in Burgos (ES), the largest EA conference in 2014, where also our AGM is held. • We will go to Paris (FR) for ICOM meeting. • We meet in Mamuz (AT) in October, whereEXARC’s second conference this year takes place. Themeis Archaeological Reconstructions and Tourism. • We join two OpenArch conferences, where all EXARC Members are welcome: one in Kierikki (FI), the other in Viminacium (SR).
hopes to achieve in 2014 • We joined work groups around two German Archaeological Open-Air Museums, to help them plan for the future. First meetings took place in February and March 2014. • Round Tables are organized by EXARC for • Universities with Experimental Archaeology (Madrid, May 2014) • NationalAssociations with Experimental Archaeology (Vienna, October 2014).
hopes to achieve in 2014 • With more work for EXARC we are exploring the possibility to hire one person (from the secretariat) for a few hours a week from 2015 or 2016. • In the OpenArch project we will get the last 20% of the funds in 2016, when the project is already finished. We however are obliged to spend the money before the end of 2015. So from 2014 we calculated extra € 4,270 to be spend on PR and OpenArch - to be received in 2016.