Theme:
6. A Decade after the ‘Third Science Revolution in Archaeology’
Session format:
Regular session
Title:
FAIRly Front-loading the Archive: Moving beyond Findable, Accessible and Interoperable to Reuse of Archaeological Data
Content:
Archaeologists and digital practitioners have been working for over 20 years to make archaeological data Findable and Accessible, and in the last 10 years, much has been accomplished to also make more of this data Interoperable. The advent of the FAIR Principles (https://www.go-fair.org/fair-principles/) in 2016 set out that data must also be Reusable. Making archaeological data Findable, Accessible and Interoperable does not necessarily mean it will be Reusable however, or available in the most reusable form.
Initiatives such as the ARIADNE infrastructure, currently funded under the Horizon 2020 programme of the EC (https://ariadne-infrastructure.eu/) and the SEADDA COST Action, funded by the Horizon 2020 Framework Programme of the EU (https://www.seadda.eu/) are working to ensure Reuse is considered equally with the rest of the FAIR Principles.
This session addresses the reuse of data in archaeology from multiple perspectives including presentations of results from the aforementioned projects along with contributions from the wider archaeological community. We invite papers that explore key questions such as:
-How can we optimise archaeological data and research interfaces for re-use?
-How can we better understand qualitative re-use of archaeological data and what facilitates new knowledge creation?
-How do we reflect differences in records of scientific data and interpretive or deductive reasoning?”
-How can access to archaeological data by the wider public gain greater benefits for society?
We also invite papers illustrating the above using specific case studies or projects. These may involve the reuse of archaeological fieldwork data from excavation or post-excavation analysis and synthesis work (e.g. reuse of stratigraphic data, or related finds, environmental, or scientific dating data, either from multiple interventions on a particular site, or re-using other peoples related data from multiple sites). We are particularly interested in case studies that can discuss challenges and opportunities encountered with the reuse of such data.
Keywords:
FAIR Principles, data reuse, data infrastructures, fieldwork data, stratigraphic data
Session associated with MERC:
no
Session associated with CIfA:
no
Session associated with SAfA:
no
Session associated with CAA:
no
Session associated with DGUF:
no
Session associated with other:
Main organiser:
Edeltraud Aspoeck (Austria) 1
Co-organisers:
Keith May (United Kingdom) 2
Holly Wright (United Kingdom) 3
Affiliations:
1. Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities and Cultural Heritage, Austrian Academy of Sciences
2. Historic England
3. Archaeology Data Service, Department of Archaeology, University of York
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