In Response to Anita's and several other questions of the ADAP:
 
The ADAP was discussed in some detail in the SOPA newsletter a year or so
ago.  It is an attempt to gather archaeological *data* and *reports* so that
others can download it and either reanlyse it or use with their own data.
 This is ten times better than the NADB bibliography project where you are
tantalized by apparently pertinent references, but you can't get copies and
you certainly can't get the data. The ADAP databases were initially to be
kept in one place, I believe, and you were supposed to send diskettes; but I
think they soon began to realize that where something is stored is not so
important on the Internet.  It also appears that they have sidestepped the
compatibility issue (how to organize the data and in what format) by just
setting up an index of available material and letting us figure out how to
access it for our own systems.
 
Tom Wheaton