APVA Jamestown Rediscovery is partnering with Virtual Jamestown, a consortium web venture of Virginia Tech and the University of Virginia's Center for Digital History to implement a comparative historical and archaeological research venture called James Cittie and Beyond and an educational initiative within Virtual Jamestown.

The archaeological part of this venture will require an analysis of specific data from past excavations on Jamestown and other Virginia sites selected from a criteria established over the years by consensus of Chesapeake area archaeologists. Historical archaeologists and curators will begin in the summer of 2002 to amass the technical and historical data utilizing ArcView GIS as the locus for the data. Data collection will then be converted to a web based user-interface, hosted by the APVA, and made accessable to Chesapean scholars who will produce comparative studies. Virginia Tech will lead in the overseeing and linking of the data, both textually and visually with educational programs catering to the kindergarten through graduate level within the Virtual Jamestown website. The Virginia Center for Digital History will lead and facilitate the technical aggregation of APVA and Virtual Jamestown data through the creation of a common index. The index will integrate the databases and supply scholars with a tool for queries across and among the datasets. Ultimately, Chesapean scholars will present major juried papers based on the compiled data at The Society for Historical Archaeology Conference to be held in Williamsburg January, one of the major events of the 400th anniversary year of the settlement of Jamestown, 2007. The James Fort collection analysis will ultimately be a part of the larger project as well as data from 24 other previously excavated 17th century Virginia sites.