Data, Digital Ephemera, and Dead Media: Digital Publishing and Archaeological Practice

Archaeology, like so many academic disciplines, is in the midst of a period of dramatic change. One of the major sources of this change is the dramatic development of information technologies and how these impact on scholarly communication, particularly the publishing process. This paper explores so...

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Main Author: Mark Aldenderfer
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of York 1999-07-01
Series:Internet Archaeology
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Online Access:http://intarch.ac.uk/journal/issue6/aldenderfer_index.html
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description Archaeology, like so many academic disciplines, is in the midst of a period of dramatic change. One of the major sources of this change is the dramatic development of information technologies and how these impact on scholarly communication, particularly the publishing process. This paper explores some of these issues, and argues that a conservation ethic for data preservation be adopted that is explicitly digital.
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spelling doaj.art-50950c7330904859b0940f814ded59892024-04-03T10:37:08ZengUniversity of YorkInternet Archaeology1363-53871999-07-01610.11141/ia.6.7 Data, Digital Ephemera, and Dead Media: Digital Publishing and Archaeological PracticeMark Aldenderfer0UC Santa BarbaraArchaeology, like so many academic disciplines, is in the midst of a period of dramatic change. One of the major sources of this change is the dramatic development of information technologies and how these impact on scholarly communication, particularly the publishing process. This paper explores some of these issues, and argues that a conservation ethic for data preservation be adopted that is explicitly digital.http://intarch.ac.uk/journal/issue6/aldenderfer_index.htmlarchaeologydatadigitalarchivepublishingpracticeinformation technology
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Data, Digital Ephemera, and Dead Media: Digital Publishing and Archaeological Practice
Internet Archaeology
archaeology
data
digital
archive
publishing
practice
information technology
title Data, Digital Ephemera, and Dead Media: Digital Publishing and Archaeological Practice
title_full Data, Digital Ephemera, and Dead Media: Digital Publishing and Archaeological Practice
title_fullStr Data, Digital Ephemera, and Dead Media: Digital Publishing and Archaeological Practice
title_full_unstemmed Data, Digital Ephemera, and Dead Media: Digital Publishing and Archaeological Practice
title_short Data, Digital Ephemera, and Dead Media: Digital Publishing and Archaeological Practice
title_sort data digital ephemera and dead media digital publishing and archaeological practice
topic archaeology
data
digital
archive
publishing
practice
information technology
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