We are excited to announce the next seminar of the Transforming data rE-use in ARCHaeology (TEtrARCHs) project.
KL Seaton from the University of York will present on ‘Hiding in plain sight: Understanding data reuse at the Archaeology Data Service’.
The seminar will take place at 16:30 (BST) on Tuesday 12th June 2024.
To find out more details and to register please visit the events page on the TEtrARCHs website.
The ADS are a partner in the TEtrARCHs project, funded through the Transformations: Social and cultural dynamics in the digital age programme of the Collaboration of Humanities and Social Sciences in Europe (CHANSE) Consortium. Find out more on our project page of the website here.
Abstract
In the current research landscape, there is an emphasis on ensuring that digital data is made openly available so others can use it. The European Union has spent more than a decade investing in the aggregation and interoperability of heritage data, ensuring that data can be accessed and used. Despite this investment, current perceptions are that archaeological data is not being reused. Using the Archaeology Data Service as a case study has demonstrated that archaeological data is being reused, just not in the way we expected. This presentation will present a comprehensive analysis of the available evidence of the reuse of archaeological data archived with the ADS, providing the quantitative data that has been lacking in the current critiques of our practice.
About the Speaker
KL Seaton is currently a doctoral student at the University of York studying the use and reuse of digital archaeological data. Using the Archaeology Data Service as a case study, the fragmented landscape of data reuse is being examined to challenge current assumptions that archaeological data is not being reused.
