Inrap: a path toward open and shared data Presentation by Kai Salas Rossenbach Institut National des Recherches Archéologiques Préventive, France ARIADNE Final Event, Florence, 16 December 2016

1. Inrap: a path toward open and shared data
Institut National des
Recherches Archéologiques
Préventives
• ~2.300 Archaeological
Investigations / year
• DOLIA, catalogue of field
work, interoperability:
– Mapping Unimarc => ACDM
– Mapping Pactols thesaurus => AAT
• Data sharing through
ARIADNE portal: 28.331
archaeological reports
• 30 experts tested the
ARIADNE services
• Next steps: publishing of
4.352 Archaeological Images
(images d’archéologie) and
Spatial Data Catalogue

2. Impacts and recognition
• Impact:
– Awareness of the amount of data produced in the last 15 years
– Valorisation of Inrap report archives
– A new way to access Inrap‘s data
– Content enrichment (subjects, temporal, spatial…)
• Also we…
– have begun an internal discussion on opening of other datasets
(e.g. Image Library, Fieldwork archives, Scientific datasets,…)
– participate in two National Consortiums for open
access and open data: MASA and Couperin
– started work on legacy data curation
• “The on-line Inrap documentary data on the ARIADNE platform
represents a considerable step forward for the French archaeological
community. The next step is putting online information systems
containing the primary data. We hope to contribute jointly with the
Consortium Memory of Archaeologists and Archaeological Sites (MASA)
from the Very Large Facility Huma-Num” – Xavier Rodier, CNRS
https://masa.hypotheses.org
http://www.couperin.org