Data Collection for a Virtual Museum on the Underwater Survey at Kaş, Turkey

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Acknowledgements

My thanks to TÜBİTAK, ARIT, AKMED for financial support; all the staff of SAD and ODTÜ‐SAT for their contribution and Kaş Local Government for logistical support for Kaş Underwater Survey Project 2009–10; also countless divers and dive centres at Kaş for generous assistance on all levels of the project; and the Turkish Ministry of Culture and Tourism, Antalya Museum, for providing the permit for this dissertation project. Lastly I am indebted to Elif Denel for critiques on the archaeological aspects of the project, to Bülent Özgüç for support on my dissertation, and to Haluk Camuşcuoğlu, Murat Draman and Burak Özkırlı for assistance all along the project.

Notes

1 Data collection for an online database forms the author's dissertation project in the Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture at Bilkent University, one of the goals of which is to contribute to the management of underwater cultural heritage in Turkey. The database in the dissertation builds on what was designed during The Virtual Museum of Turkish Underwater Cultural Heritage: Kaş Archaeopark Pilot Project during summer 2007 under the sponsorship of TÜBİTAK, through collaboration between the Culture and Art Research Center of Başkent University and SAD. Serkan Girgin of the Middle East Technical University designed the database, while Altay Özaygen, of the same university, worked on its internet application.