Theme:
1. Artefacts, Buildings & Ecofacts
Title:
What to Do with Your Code? Tools and Best Practices for the Long-term Sustainability of Code Outputs in Archaeology
Content:
The volume of digital outputs produced by archaeologists has been increasing exponentially. Together with other types of digital objects, computational scripts, being those for data processing, analysis, visualisation or simulation, are now ubiquitous in almost all archaeological projects. However, this increase has raised important concerns about their long-term sustainability, which also carries similar challenges to the ones encountered in research data management more generally (Kansa & Kansa 2022). Where should they be stored? What contextual information should they contain? Who should maintain them beyond the life of a particular project? And how do we adjust the academic reward framework for those who deal less with standard publications and more with GitHub releases? These are but a few of the many concerns associated with this fundamental shift towards digital scientific practice. While many archaeologists are increasingly aware of these issues, many still lack hands-on practical experience with tools to implement best practices for code sustainability.
This workshop combines practical training and roundtable-style ideas exchange. During the workshop, we will:
- Review the most common platforms, tools and tricks for ensuring a long life of computational scripts,
- Exchange the experiences of making code, pipelines and metadata replicable and reusable,
- Discuss the current state of archaeological open science and ways in which we can advance the agenda (Marwick 2017).
At the end, we will draft a checklist of best practices and associated tools that can be used by any archaeologist planning a project that involves computational scripts.
Keywords:
Digital Archaeology, Open Science, Best Practice
Session associated with MERC:
no
Session associated with CIfA:
no
Session associated with SAfA:
no
Session associated with CAA:
yes
Session associated with DGUF:
no
Session associated with other:
Main organiser:
Dries Daems (Turkey) 1
Co-organisers:
Andreas Angourakis (Germany) 2
Affiliations:
1. Middle East Technical University, Ankara
2. Ruhr-Universität Bochum
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