Defining and advocating open data in archaeology

Stefano Costa; Anthony Beck; Andrew Bevan; Jessica Ogden; Graeme Earl; Tim Sly; Chrysanthi Angeliki; Patricia Murrieta-Flores; Constantinos Papadopoulos; Iza Romanowska; David Wheatley

Defining and advocating open data in archaeology

Stefano Costa^*, Anthony Beck, Andrew Bevan, Jessica Ogden, Graeme Earl (Editor), Tim Sly (Editor), Chrysanthi Angeliki (Editor), Patricia Murrieta-Flores (Editor), Constantinos Papadopoulos (Editor), Iza Romanowska (Editor), David Wheatley (Editor)

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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.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Archaeology in the Digital Era
Subtitle of host publication	Papers from the 40th Annual Conference of Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology (CAA), Southampton, 26-29 March 2012
Place of Publication	Amsterdam
Publisher	Amsterdam University Press
Pages	449-456
ISBN (Print)	9789089646637
Publication status	Published - 2013
Event	Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology (CAA) 2012 - University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom Duration: 26 Mar 2012 → 30 Mar 2012

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Conference	Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology (CAA) 2012
Abbreviated title	CAA2012
Country/Territory	United Kingdom
City	Southampton
Period	26/03/12 → 30/03/12

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Costa, S., Beck, A., Bevan, A., Ogden, J., Earl, G. (Ed.), Sly, T. (Ed.), Angeliki, C. (Ed.), Murrieta-Flores, P. (Ed.), Papadopoulos, C. (Ed.), Romanowska, I. (Ed.), & Wheatley, D. (Ed.) (2013). Defining and advocating open data in archaeology. 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 (pp. 449-456). Amsterdam University Press. https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1379503

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Costa, S, Beck, A, Bevan, A, Ogden, J, Earl, G (ed.), Sly, T (ed.), Angeliki, C (ed.), Murrieta-Flores, P (ed.), Papadopoulos, C (ed.), Romanowska, I (ed.) & Wheatley, D (ed.) 2013, Defining and advocating open data in archaeology. 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, Amsterdam, pp. 449-456, Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology (CAA) 2012, Southampton, United Kingdom, 26/03/12. <https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1379503>

Defining and advocating open data in archaeology. / Costa, Stefano; Beck, Anthony; Bevan, Andrew et al.
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: Amsterdam University Press, 2013. p. 449-456.

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