1. Gli Open Data nell’archeologia italiana.
I risultati del sondaggio MAPPA
MAPPAproject – Francesca Anichini

2. Gli Open Data nell’archeologia italiana. I risultati del sondaggio MAPPA 2/14
The survey was promoted through the
Internet and social media and for Italian
community exclusively.

3. Gli Open Data nell’archeologia italiana. I risultati del sondaggio MAPPA 3/14
WHY?

4. Gli Open Data nell’archeologia italiana. I risultati del sondaggio MAPPA 3/14
650 Validated answers

5. Gli Open Data nell’archeologia italiana. I risultati del sondaggio MAPPA 4/14
61 Questions / 7 Sections
1. General data
2. PC use
3. Knowledge/use open source software
4. Open Data and archaeology
5. Publication of archaeological Open
Data
6. Use of archaeological Open Data
7. Comments
Results published in .csv file
http://mappaproject.arch.unipi.i
t/?page_id=136.

6. Gli Open Data nell’archeologia italiana. I risultati del sondaggio MAPPA 3/14
….. and now some graphics

7. Gli Open Data nell’archeologia italiana. I risultati del sondaggio MAPPA 5/14
SAMPLE
SURVEY
Qualification
Gender
Region

8. The Camp Ground Excavations 6/14
WORK Archaeologist 55%
Student 16%
Researcher 4%
Museum director 3%
Teacher 3%
Architect 2%
Other…1% each
30% Permanent employment
23% Self-employed
16% Temporary worker
15% Unemployed
21% Permanent employment 29%
Self-employed
17% Temporary worker
19% Unemployed
Archaeologist
55%
Category Sample
Work at MiBAC 6,83%
University professor 2,53%
Indipendent worker 41,01%
Other (?) 49,63%

9. Gli Open Data nell’archeologia italiana. I risultati del sondaggio MAPPA 7/14
Good 54%
(Excellent 15%)
10% 18-25 (age)
63% 26-40
16% 41-50
10% 51-65
1% >65
Use PC
Internet use
4% <5 (hours for week)
12% 5-10
21% 11-20
37% 21-40
25% >40
78%
LEVEL OF
COMPUTER
LITERACY
Use open source software 66%
Makers of open data 62%

10. 8/14
Open data’s characteristics
21% accessible
18% shared
12% open source
8% transparent
8% reproducible
5% raw
5% generative
5% without a license
4% unprotected
3% prompt
1% complete
1% machine readable
Gli Open Data nell’archeologia italiana. I risultati del sondaggio MAPPA
Do you know ‘’Mr. Open Data’’?
47% yes
53% ?

11. 9/14
Are Open Data the future
of the archaeological
research? 33% I’m mostly agree
29% I’m really agree
28% I’m totally agree
5% not much
1% none
Gli Open Data nell’archeologia italiana. I risultati del sondaggio MAPPA
90%
The creation of a archaeological open data archive is
considered useful for all archaeological components:
Reserchers 83%
Indipendent workers 78%
Heritage conservation 74%
The archaeological open data archive
is considered to be less useful as:
A management tool for MiBAC 64%
A stimulus to improve the quality of data produced 61%

12. 10/14
Despite full adherence to ​​open data philosophy,
there is still not a habit to use them.
Gli Open Data nell’archeologia italiana. I risultati del sondaggio MAPPA
Did you use archaeological Open Data for
your work?
32% YES 63%NO
Do you know archaeological Open Data?
32% YES 63%NO
In whitch way?
27% to compare materials

13. 11/14Gli Open Data nell’archeologia italiana. I risultati del sondaggio MAPPA
of the sample believe that’s not sufficient to
have only a minimal set of data (location,
chronology, type of archaeological findings) or
only scientific publications without raw data
(including photographic documentation)
80%

14. 12/14Gli Open Data nell’archeologia italiana. I risultati del sondaggio MAPPA
agree to recognize the intellectual
property to those who generated the
data
agree to equate the publication of data
with scientific publication
agree to recognize a right of first
refusal to the author for full
publication
For 3 years 28%
For 5 years 26%
75%
77%
79%

15. 15 /14Gli Open Data nell’archeologia italiana. I risultati del sondaggio MAPPA
With which license publish open data?
no answer
CC BY NC SA
(Creative Commons
Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike)
≠
CC BY
(Creative Commons Attribution)
36%
17%
16%

16. 14 /14Gli Open Data nell’archeologia italiana. I risultati del sondaggio MAPPA
agree to create an Open Data
archaeological archive
For 39%
there’re risks
39% Heritage conservation
39% Iniquity between collegues
20 % Unreliability of the data
but
93%

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