Digital Archaeological Data in the Wild West: the challenge of practising responsible digital data archiving and access in the United States
Archaeology in the United States is conducted by a number of different sorts of entities under a variety of legal mandates that lack uniform standards for data archiving. The difficulty of accessing data from projects in which one was not directly involved indicates an apparent reluctance to archive...
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| author | Christopher Nicholson Rachel Fernandez Jessica Irwin |
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| description | Archaeology in the United States is conducted by a number of different sorts of entities under a variety of legal mandates that lack uniform standards for data archiving. The difficulty of accessing data from projects in which one was not directly involved indicates an apparent reluctance to archive raw data and supplemental information with digital repositories to be reused in the future. There is hope that additional legislation, guidelines from professional organisations, and educational efforts will change these practices. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-4e11a81be7ac4c6db14a9e1d72bce7b92024-02-03T02:47:44ZengUniversity of YorkInternet Archaeology1363-53872021-06-01https://doi.org/10.11141/ia.58.22Digital Archaeological Data in the Wild West: the challenge of practising responsible digital data archiving and access in the United StatesChristopher Nicholson0https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3212-2662Rachel Fernandez1 Jessica Irwin2Center for Digital Antiquity, Arizona State UniversityCenter for Digital Antiquity, Arizona State UniversityCenter for Digital Antiquity, Arizona State UniversityArchaeology in the United States is conducted by a number of different sorts of entities under a variety of legal mandates that lack uniform standards for data archiving. The difficulty of accessing data from projects in which one was not directly involved indicates an apparent reluctance to archive raw data and supplemental information with digital repositories to be reused in the future. There is hope that additional legislation, guidelines from professional organisations, and educational efforts will change these practices.https://intarch.ac.uk/journal/issue58/22/archaeologydigital data curationarchivingdigital repositoriesfederal legislationunited states |
| spellingShingle | Christopher Nicholson Rachel Fernandez Jessica Irwin Digital Archaeological Data in the Wild West: the challenge of practising responsible digital data archiving and access in the United States Internet Archaeology archaeology digital data curation archiving digital repositories federal legislation united states |
| title | Digital Archaeological Data in the Wild West: the challenge of practising responsible digital data archiving and access in the United States |
| title_full | Digital Archaeological Data in the Wild West: the challenge of practising responsible digital data archiving and access in the United States |
| title_fullStr | Digital Archaeological Data in the Wild West: the challenge of practising responsible digital data archiving and access in the United States |
| title_full_unstemmed | Digital Archaeological Data in the Wild West: the challenge of practising responsible digital data archiving and access in the United States |
| title_short | Digital Archaeological Data in the Wild West: the challenge of practising responsible digital data archiving and access in the United States |
| title_sort | digital archaeological data in the wild west the challenge of practising responsible digital data archiving and access in the united states |
| topic | archaeology digital data curation archiving digital repositories federal legislation united states |
| url | https://intarch.ac.uk/journal/issue58/22/ |
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