Theme:
1. Archaeologists and Archaeology Here and Now
Session format:
Regular session
Title:
“Open Science” in Archaeology and Heritage: Challenges and Future Perspectives
Content:
For some time, archaeology and heritage have been experiencing a huge increase in the amount of available ‘’Open Science’’, in terms of digitized and born-digital data concerning human history and prehistory with all their contemporary legacies. This has been due to a combination of numerous research and cultural resource management initiatives, for example, fieldwork expeditions, grey literature, digitization of museum, archive, and library collections, co-production of data through crowdsourcing, and the creation of open repositories of remote sensed data. Archaeology and heritage are often at odds with well-established practices of data sharing in data-rich disciplines such as astronomy, physics, and medicine for the following reasons: 1) there is a variable level of consensus over use and curation of data and related analytical methods in both archaeology and heritage; 2) it is not clear what the norms and requirements of “ethical open science” are; 3) the communication among different interested parties regarding the requirements and expectations of open data is limited.
To address these issues, our session brings together researchers interested in the practices of ethical open science and data sharing in both archaeology and heritage. The session will explore the different practices used in these fields so far, whilst comparing them to those used in other research areas and disciplines. We hope to foster practical cross-pollination and useful discussion between archaeology and heritage researchers. Our goal is to open a forum that will lead to implementation and standardization of the best open science ethical practices. We aim to bring tangible benefits for all stakeholders in open science data, citizens, communities, individual researchers, and researchers, with special attention paid to the requirements of indigenous stakeholder communities.
We invite papers that present new open science research, and also how this research relates to the notion of ethical open science.
Keywords:
Archaeology, Heritage, Open data, Data sharing, Reproducible research, Ethics
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:
Marija Edinborough (Australia) 1
Co-organisers:
Alessio Palmisano (Germany) 2
Chiara Bonacchi (United Kingdom) 3
Affiliations:
1. The University of Melbourne
2. Ludwig-Maximilian University of Munich
3. University of Stirling
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