Challenging Digital Archaeology

A keynote presentation at the 2012 Computer Applications in Archaeology (CAA) conference in Southampton (UK) proposed the use of grand challenges as a vehicle for identifying and pursuing major advances in Digital Archaeology. At the same time, it was argued that this should be a collaborative ventu...

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Main Author: Huggett Jeremy
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: De Gruyter 2015-03-01
Series:Open Archaeology
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spelling doaj-e3f07c15029b46e891ab799ee4e1c04b2021-10-02T04:06:02ZengDe GruyterOpen Archaeology2300-65602015-03-011110.1515/opar-2015-0003opar-2015-0003Challenging Digital ArchaeologyHuggett Jeremy0Archaeology, School of Humanities, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QQ, UKA keynote presentation at the 2012 Computer Applications in Archaeology (CAA) conference in Southampton (UK) proposed the use of grand challenges as a vehicle for identifying and pursuing major advances in Digital Archaeology. At the same time, it was argued that this should be a collaborative venture. This was taken forward at a round table session at the 2014 CAA in Paris, and a number of papers in this volume were presented there. This paper introduces the concept of grand challenges for Digital Archaeology and seeks to define their key characteristics.http://www.degruyter.com/view/j/opar.2014.1.issue-1/opar-2015-0003/opar-2015-0003.xml?format=INTdigital archaeology grand challenge
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title_full Challenging Digital Archaeology
title_fullStr Challenging Digital Archaeology
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description A keynote presentation at the 2012 Computer Applications in Archaeology (CAA) conference in Southampton (UK) proposed the use of grand challenges as a vehicle for identifying and pursuing major advances in Digital Archaeology. At the same time, it was argued that this should be a collaborative venture. This was taken forward at a round table session at the 2014 CAA in Paris, and a number of papers in this volume were presented there. This paper introduces the concept of grand challenges for Digital Archaeology and seeks to define their key characteristics.
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grand challenge
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