Welcome to the CSA Web site. CSA's aim is to encourage appropriate uses of computers and information technology by those involved in research in archaeology and architectural history - and those who will need the fruits of that research. The key word is appropriate. Particularly in these early stages of the digital era it is not easy to know how best to use the new computing power that has become available to us. Nor is it obvious which computers or computer technologies will turn out to be the best and most appropriate for a given use. Perhaps most important, it is all but impossible to predict which specific approaches to using computers to create digital information will thrive and which will turn out to have been dead ends. It is CSA's mission to help guide users and potential users of information technologies so that, at the least, they can make well-considered choices of computers and software in these poorly charted waters.

If you encounter any problems with our site, please let us know through the email address listed for the director on our email contacts page. Problems with unwanted email have obliged us to add that page for contact information rather than keeping the efficient and simple procedures that provide easy access to us but, in the process, permit automatic systems to gather email addresses.

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Comments concerning any CSA resources are encouraged and appreciated. Suggestions for improvement, criticisms, and disagreements should, to the extent possible, be made known to anyone who may wish to use those resources. Therefore, we will follow the following formal procedure to encourage additions, corrections, and enhancements to CSA resources:

Any reader may comment on any item by sending the comments to CSA Director, Harrison (Nick) Eiteljorg, II, at the email address on our email contacts page. The commenting reader must identify himself or herself by full name (and position if desired) and provide an email address for contact. The comment will be put into HTML form in consultation with its author and posted. A link to the comment will be placed on the resource. (Links will always be placed in the title areas in the form of an icon with the phrase "CSA Reader Commentary" or "CSA Newsletter Commentary," as appropriate) The name of the reader (and position when supplied) and the date of the comment will be included on the secondary page, as will subsequent comments about the same resource (making only one linked page per resource as the maximum, no matter how many comments). Illustrations are welcome. The email address of the reader(s) will be available either on the web page or from CSA, at the reader's discretion.

The linked page with comments will present the comments in standard chronological order, not in the reverse order made popular by blogs. The author of the resource will be asked to respond to the reader's comments, but the reader's comments will be posted when received and will not have to await the author's response unless the author and reader wish to work together on the comment.

Mr. Eiteljorg reserves the right to reject profane, commercial, or unrelated comments.

An example of this new procedure may be found for the article "High Dynamic Range Photography," by Harrison Eiteljorg, II; XIX, 2; Fall, 2006. (http://www.csanet.org/newsletter/fall06/nlf0603.html)

General Information about CSA:

CSA was founded in 1986, incorporated as a Pennsylvania not-for-profit corporation in 1987. It is a public charity, 501 (c) (3) organization, as defined by the Internal Revenue Service. The mailing address is CSA, P.O. Box 60, Bryn Mawr, PA 19010, USA. Telephone: (484) 612-5862. Email for the director: see our email contacts page.

Comments, suggestions and reports of problems with any material posted to the Web by CSA will be greatly appreciated. Please use the above mailing address or see our email contacts page for email addresses.

Harrison Eiteljorg, II, is the founder and director of CSA. To send comments or questions to Mr. Eiteljorg, please see our email contacts page.

Susan C. Jones is the administrative assistant. To send comments or questions to Ms. Jones, please see our email contacts page.

Phoebe A. Sheftel serves as the Director of the CSA Gordion Project.

Members of the Board of Directors are Samuel H. Francis, Ph. D.; Charles A. Fritz, III; Richard Hamilton, Ph. D.; John A. C. McMurtrie, III; and Harrison Eiteljorg, II, Ph. D.

In addition to the directors, CSA has an Advisory Board, consisting of George F. Bass, Ph. D., and G. Kenneth Sams, Ph. D.

J. Penny Small, Ph. D., and John Sanders, M. A., are Adjunct Professors.

This icon will appear on most CSA web documents to lead to information about authorship, publication date, and so on, because any web document intended for researchers or scholars should provide the same kind of scholarly apparatus as a book or journal. Not only is this information required for citations, it assists readers in judging the resource.

About this document:

• Title: CSA Home Page
• File name: index.html
• Author: Harrison Eiteljorg, II and the staff of CSA, Box 60, Bryn Mawr, PA 19010, (email: see our email contacts page.) tel.: 484-612-5862)
• Revision history: This document has been updated, and further changes will occur regularly; there will be no archiving of past versions. Last updated, 11 April 2008.
• Internet access: This document is maintained at csanet.org by the Center for the Study of Architecture and Harrison Eiteljorg, II. Note that there may be changes in computer addresses that are beyond the control of CSA.
• Long-term availability: This document or its successors will be maintained for electronic access indefinitely. Prior versions will not be archived.
• Citation permissions and copyright information: This document is copyrighted by CSA. Citations should include the date of the document cited.