An Open Context for Zooarchaeology: Publishing Research Data on the Web

An Open Context for Zooarchaeology Publishing Research Data on the Web Unless otherwise indicated, this work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License <http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/> Sarah Whitcher Kansa [email_address]

An open source content dissemination system

Integrated

Citable

Free

Open Context’s Approach

Explore ways to pool data without overly constraining standards

Find / create cost-effective and EASY tools for non-tech-expert contribution and use

Support queries and analysis across multiple datasets

Clearly recognize contributions, fit into the existing research process (citation and permanent links)

Records in Open Context Faceted browsing allows easy exploration of diverse content

Records in Open Context

Media Record

Ownership in Open Context Copyright ownership and Creative Commons license information, including metadata Internet-wide standard metadata, links ownership & permissions

Ownership in Open Context Citation information with stable URL direct to the item being cited.

Adding Value to Content Users can highlight an item or groups of items, add their own observations and created a permanent URL for that data set

Facilitating Collaboration and Discussion An individual tags a set “weaving tools” and comments on them

Facilitating Collaboration and Discussion Someone else refers to that tagged set from a blog= “ping back” An individual tags a set “weaving tools” and comments on them

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If you build it, will they come?

Special Thanks University of Chicago: OCHRE Project Doris and Donald Fisher László Bartosiewicz and ICAZ Presidio Archaeology Lab Science Commons Internet Archive (media repository services) Questions? Contact skansa@alexandriaarchive.org