Moving towards an Open Archaeology: projects, opportunities and challenges

Edeltraud Aspöck

doi:10.31263/voebm.v72i2.3249

Authors

Edeltraud Aspöck Austrian Academy of Sciences, Institute for Oriental and European Archaeology (OREA) & Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities (ACDH) https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7535-2316

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.31263/voebm.v72i2.3249

Keywords:

Archaeology, FAIR, ARIADNE, ARIADNEplus, Open Data, Open Methodology, Open Access, Open Source, barriers to Open Science

Abstract

Generally, open science practices are only slowly having an impact on mainstream archaeological practice. An exception is the open access to publications, which, together with open data and open methodologies may represent those practices most relevant for archaeological researchers. This article introduces a selection of archaeology projects that embrace and facilitate open science practices. Finally there will be a discussion of some of the questions and challenges the discipline is facing in its move towards an Open Archaeology.

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