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
- 6. Open Government – data.gov.uk
- 8. Open Science
- 13. Open Archaeological Data
- 14. Open Archaeological Data – thedatahub.org
- 15. Open Archaeological Data Episodic basis Most (if not all) from US and UK Slow “evangelisation” towards open licenses Sustainability? Long-term preservation?
- 16. Agenda Individual and institutional advocacy Ethics and consensus building Knowledge transfer
- 17. Institutional advocacy Funding Publication Open data as an integral part, not an after thought Individual advocacy Higher impact ( ~ open access literature) Peer pressure (domain specific)
- 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
- 19. Consistency?
- 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)
- 22. Google Refine
- 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
- 27. Knowledge transfer Avoid producing closed data Avoid mixing of closed and open data Best practices
- 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/