The Future of Archaeological Publishing on the Web

Take a typical archaeological unit.
It will generate a variety of document and data types:

Tenders
Quotations
Desk-top Assessments
Evaluation Reports
Specialist Reports
Press Releases
Excavation records
Excavation reports
Annual reports
Popular booklets
Photographs
CAD drawings
Letters
Accounts

Some of these documents are also to be found in museum or curatorial archaeologist's office, together with the Sites and Monuments Record and its associated documentation, and the physical site archive.
At present, there may be some filing system or unit-wide conventions which allow the staff to keep track of a project's documentation and this may even be computer-based.
However, there is almost certainly going to be: a large amount of duplication of information from document to document; no means of updating those documents or keeping track of modifications (version control).
Some large companies (though, so far as I know, no archaeological units) are already using Web technology to integrate all of their documents. It is only a matter of time before the cost of the software, plus the competitive advantage that its use will give to the unit, will lead to the use of such systems in UK field archaeology.
Document integration will make use of:

XML
Middleware
XSL
Xlinks
Xpointers. The Xpointer protocol will allow you to refer to specific parts of a web document and, when implemented by browsers, will allow either the entire document to be loaded with the cursor placed at a specific point or for only specified parts of the document to be retrieved. Effectively, this protocol will allow web authors to reference other web documents as though they had placed an anchor into the referred-to text.

However, it may be that all of these developments will be completely invisible to the end user and will, instead, be implemented in Office software, such as databases, spreadsheets, word processors and presentation software.