Newsletter 2 - June 2013#
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We are very pleased to welcome you to the ARCHES project which is coordinated by the State Office for Cultural Heritage Management Baden-Württemberg in Germany and consists of 8 partners from 7 countries. ARCHES is an exciting project which started on June 2012 and runs till May 2014. The result will be a standard and manual of best practices for the management of archaeological archives. We look forward to keeping you informed through this newsletter which is published twice a year. You can also follow us and join in discussions about the project on the ARCHES page on LinkedIn. Check out the latest information about ARCHES on this website. Contact and information: arches@e-a-c.org
The 2nd ARCHES General Meeting#
The 2nd General Meeting meeting took place in the beautiful city of Prague (Czech Republic) on January 30-31, 2013.
During this second meeting, the Core Standard was finalized. You can find the full text
on this ARCHES website. This Core Standard constitutes the first step in our common goal of creating a manual of best practices in archaeological archiving. It contains the definitions of an archaeological project and an archaeological archive, a description of the main elements of which an archaeological archive is composed, an outline of the basic principles of archaeological archiving and identifies who carries responsibilities, followed by the standards for both the documentary archive as the material/finds archive.
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The session concerning the organization of the national/regional workshops defined the various questionnaires to be used during the workshops. Two questionnaires were created. The first one, “Applying the Standards” aims at making a survey on the current guidance amongst the partners within the institutions in charge of archiving the archaeological documentation. This questionnaire is split into 3 main chapters: the documentary archive, the material/finds archive and the reports and publications. For each type of document or find, the various phases of an archaeological project are considered: planning, data-gathering, analysis and report writing, preparation for archive transfer, and curation.
The second questionnaire, on “Roles and Responsabilities” aims at making a survey on the actual roles and responsibilities within the partner institutions in charge of archaeological archiving. This questionnaire contains 6 chapters: planning, data gathering, analysis, reporting / publication, archive compilation and curation.
If you are interested in obtaining a copy of these questionnaires, please contact: arches@e-a-c.org
ARCHES Workshops#
Each partner within the ARCHES project has held a workshop during Spring 2013, using the questionnaires on “Roles and Responsabilities” and “Applying the Standards” Workshop dates:
- March 13, 2013: Bonn, Germany
- March 18, 2013: Sweden
- April 3, 2013: Reykjavik, Iceland
- April 24, 2013: Brussels, Belgium
- April 25, 2013: Amersfoort, Netherlands
- April, 2013: Prague, Czech Republic
- May 8, 2013 : England
Our Swiss colleagues, partners within the EAC Archaeological Archives Working Party; have held 2 workshops: March 1 and March 15, 2013.
The results of these workshops will be discussed during the next plenary meeting hosted by the Archaeological Heritage Agency in Reykjavik, Iceland, 25-26 September 2013.