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Defining and advocating open data in archaeology

Defining and advocating open data in archaeology
Defining and advocating open data in archaeology
A piece of content or data is open if anyone is free to use, reuse, and redistribute it - subject only, at most, to the requirement to attribute and share-alike" (http://opendefinition.org/). Driven by demands for greater transparency from government, general freedom of information and an increased awareness of the unanticipated re-use values of existing information, Open Data has seen dramatic growth in the past two years. Is archaeology part of this general trend? Our aim is to explore what it means to make archaeological data open and what processes are required to make it happen in a satisfactory way. There are three major goals: (a) individual and institutional advocacy, (b) ethical discussion and consensus- building, and (c) knowledge transfer (licenses guidance, wider academic context, repositories etc.). In this paper, we explore some of these issues in greater detail.
archaeology, Linked Data, linked open data, open access, open archaeology, open data, Semantic Web
449-456
Amsterdam University Press
Costa, Stefano
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Beck, Anthony
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Bevan, Andrew
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Ogden, Jessica
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Earl, Graeme
Sly, Timothy
Chrysanthi, Angeliki
Murrieta Flores, Patricia
Papadopoulos, Constantinos
Romanowska, Iza
Wheatley, David
Costa, Stefano
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Beck, Anthony
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Bevan, Andrew
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Ogden, Jessica
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Earl, Graeme
Sly, Timothy
Chrysanthi, Angeliki
Murrieta Flores, Patricia
Papadopoulos, Constantinos
Romanowska, Iza
Wheatley, David

Costa, Stefano, Beck, Anthony, Bevan, Andrew and Ogden, Jessica (2013) Defining and advocating open data in archaeology. Earl, Graeme, Sly, Timothy, Chrysanthi, Angeliki, Murrieta Flores, Patricia, Papadopoulos, Constantinos, Romanowska, Iza and Wheatley, David (eds.) In Archaeology in the Digital Era; Papers from the 40th Annual Conference of Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology (CAA), Southampton, 26-29 March 2012. Amsterdam University Press. pp. 449-456 .

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A piece of content or data is open if anyone is free to use, reuse, and redistribute it - subject only, at most, to the requirement to attribute and share-alike" (http://opendefinition.org/). Driven by demands for greater transparency from government, general freedom of information and an increased awareness of the unanticipated re-use values of existing information, Open Data has seen dramatic growth in the past two years. Is archaeology part of this general trend? Our aim is to explore what it means to make archaeological data open and what processes are required to make it happen in a satisfactory way. There are three major goals: (a) individual and institutional advocacy, (b) ethical discussion and consensus- building, and (c) knowledge transfer (licenses guidance, wider academic context, repositories etc.). In this paper, we explore some of these issues in greater detail.

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Published date: 2013
Venue - Dates: conference; 2013-01-01, 2013-01-01
Keywords: archaeology, Linked Data, linked open data, open access, open archaeology, open data, Semantic Web
Organisations: Archaeology

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Local EPrints ID: 397699
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/397699
PURE UUID: 8aade167-2309-4894-b630-1c1e4213d08b
ORCID for Jessica Ogden: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0003-4696-7340

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Date deposited: 29 Sep 2016 12:24
Last modified: 15 Mar 2024 01:21

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Author: Stefano Costa
Author: Anthony Beck
Author: Andrew Bevan
Author: Jessica Ogden ORCID iD
Editor: Graeme Earl
Editor: Timothy Sly
Editor: Angeliki Chrysanthi
Editor: Patricia Murrieta Flores
Editor: Constantinos Papadopoulos
Editor: Iza Romanowska
Editor: David Wheatley

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