Digging into Archaeological Data (EDUCAUSE Review) | EDUCAUSE
Connotea Imports 2012-07-31
Summary:
"The explosion of online, open access collections of ancient texts and artifacts, along with the secondary literature surrounding them, has transformed the speed and manner in which scholars of the ancient world perform their research. Among the various types of electronic resources for the study of the ancient world, open access collections of primary archaeological data—for example, the Archaeology Data Service ...and the Archaeobotanical Database... —are a particular boon for researchers, especially those for whom annual fieldwork may not always be possible, in that these collections bring large quantities of raw data directly to the researchers’ fingertips....Multi-institutional and multinational projects such as Open Context...are providing access to this primary archaeological data explicitly so that scholars and students can “easily find and reuse content created by others, which are key to advancing research and education.” ..."