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Find out more about the UKMW11 conference on 25 November 2011
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Hi All,
Leif and I just wanted to draw your attention to this Computer applications and quantitative methods in Archaeology 2012 conference session. We welcome all submissions, see the abstracts below. If you are planning to submit an abstract for the session, the deadline is at the end of this month. See the CAA website for details: http://www.southampton.ac.uk/caa2012/
Best,
Nicole Beale and Leif Isaksen
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The Shoulders of Giants: Open Content in Archaeology
Chairs: Nicole Beale and Leif Isaksen
Open Content, while by no means a new concept, is increasingly being seen as having a transformative impact on the Research and Higher Education Communities.[1] Distinct from the Open Source and Open Standards initiatives, Open Content is the online provision of actionable research material under licenses that permit its reuse. It facilitates public learning, the interconnection of resources, economic efficiency, and gives rise to new lines of research.
A number of pioneering archaeological schemes (including the ADS,[2] Arachne[3] and OpenContext[4]) have begun to make headway in this area, and commercial units (especially in the UK) are playing an important role as well. The evolving suite of Creative Commons licenses is also slowly addressing important concerns related to copyright, IPR and Data Protection. Nevertheless, Archaeology as a global discipline has woefully inadequate provision of openly available data with the vast majority of data kept technically, legally (and frequently physically) out of the hands of those who could do something unanticipated and useful with it.
This session is intended to be a showcase and forum for projects and theory related to the subject of Open Content in Archaeology. Topics of interests include, but are not limited to:
Showcase
* New Open Content repositories and data sets
* Interconnections between online data (including ‘Linked Open Data’)
* Projects applying new analysis techniques to legacy data sets
Theory
* Legal issues (licensing, national and international legal requirements)
* Practical issues (acquisition, hosting, formatting, nighthawking, etc.)
* Lessons learned (case studies)
Papers will be followed by a discussion of future action within this important area of activity.
Note: This session is unrelated to this year’s CAA Open Content Prize which will consider any viable paper submitted for consideration, regardless of the session in which it is presented.
[1] http://www.nmc.org/pdf/2011-Technology-Outlook-UK.pdf
[2] http://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/
[3] http://www.arachne.uni-koeln.de/
[4] http://opencontext.org/
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