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What does the Holy Grail look like? Defining open data in archaeology and the related issues
1. What does the Holy Grail look like?
Defining Open Data in Archaeology
and the related issues
Anthony Beck, Andrew Bevan, Stefano Costa
⁂
Working Group on Open Data in Archaeology
Open Knowledge Foundation
3. "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/
/
4. Open Data has momentum
Open Government Data
Freedom of Information
(Cultural|Economic|Political) Value
Open (Research|Science)
Community-driven (WP, OSM)
Linked Open Data
5. Raw Data Now! (2009)
http://www.ted.com/talks/tim_berners_lee_on_the_next_web.html
15. Open Archaeological Data
Episodic basis
Most (if not all) from US and UK
Slow “evangelisation” towards open licenses
Sustainability?
Long-term preservation?
18. Open data and interoperability
Data first, inter-project consistency later
Open licensing more important than rich
semantics?
Let's keep computer scientists busy!
One star is a star(t) ★☆☆☆☆
★ Available on the web (whatever format) but with
an open licence, to be Open Data
20. Open Data and archiving,
preservation
UK has a distorted perspective (ADS)
Countless projects in other countries do not
achieve even minimal standards of archiving
and preservation
Open data should be done independently
Open data may be a way of preservation by
dissemination (Archive.org, Google)
23. Ethics - 1
Sharing data across sovereign borders
Risks of “Colonisation 2.0”
Grace periods? (EAA: 5 years)
24. Ethics - 2
Specialisation → Balkanisation
Archaeology → Archaeologies
Whom are we trying to convince?
25. Ethics – 3
Open data and the public
What does the public want?
Who is the public anyway?
Wikipedia
Wiki Loves Monuments
Wikipedian in Residence
What should not be public?
26. Ethics – 4
The case against “Non commercial” licenses
No clear definition
Commercial archaeology is vital and should not
be excluded
28. What does the Holy Grail look like?
Defining Open Data in Archaeology
and the related issues
Anthony Beck, Andrew Bevan, Stefano Costa
⁂
http://archaeology.okfn.org/