Digital Archiving in Archaeology: The State of the Art. Introduction

Digital Archiving in Archaeology: The State of the Art. Introduction

The advent of ubiquitous computing has created a golden age for archaeological researchers and participating publics, but the price is a digital resource that is now in jeopardy. The archaeological record, in digital form, is at risk not simply from obsolescence and media failure, but the domain is...

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Main Authors: Julian D. Richards, Ulf Jakobsson, David Novák, Benjamin Štular, Holly Wright
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of York 2021-06-01
Series:Internet Archaeology
Subjects:
archaeology
europe
data
digital archiving
preservation
seadda
digital dark age
repositories
reproducibility
Online Access:https://intarch.ac.uk/journal/issue58/intro.cfm
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Summary:The advent of ubiquitous computing has created a golden age for archaeological researchers and participating publics, but the price is a digital resource that is now in jeopardy. The archaeological record, in digital form, is at risk not simply from obsolescence and media failure, but the domain is also unable to fully participate in Open Data. Without swift and informed consensus and intervention, archaeology will lose the majority of its research data legacy and capacity to a digital Dark Age.
ISSN:1363-5387

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