Costa, S;
Beck, A;
Bevan, AH;
Ogden, J;
(2013)
Defining and advocating Open Data in archaeology.
In:
Archaeology in the Digital Era: Proceedings of the 40th Annual Conference of Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology (CAA) University of Southampton on 26-30 March 2012.
(pp. pp. 449-456).
Amsterdam University Press: Amsterdam, Netherlands.
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Abstract
"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.
| Type: | Proceedings paper |
|---|---|
| Title: | Defining and advocating Open Data in archaeology |
| Event: | 40th Annual Conference of Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology (CAA) |
| ISBN-13: | 9789089646637 |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| Publisher version: | http://dare.uva.nl/cgi/arno/show.cgi?fid=516092 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology (CAA) / Amsterdam University Press, Amsterdam 2013. All rights reserved. Deposited with the permission of the conference organisers and proceedings editors. |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS > Institute of Archaeology UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS > Institute of Archaeology > Institute of Archaeology Gordon Square |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1379503 |
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