[open-archaeology] best practices

Wed Dec 8 09:57:09 UTC 2010

Hi All,

Exporting Dublin Core metadata should be easy. As Stefano noted, we're 
using Omeka which publishes machine-readable data by default:

http://omeka.org/codex/Response_Formats

As far as the content goes, it's mainly a grab-bag of varia published by 
different members of the ZooArch community. There are paper offprints, 
conference presentations, images, and newsletters. Wide dissemination is 
useful, but the material isn't necessarily easy to remix (hence calling 
this "sorta" open). Nevertheless, I think BoneCommons has helped get 
researchers comfortable with CC licenses (esp. the more open variants) 
and the open Web in general. Because it's sponsored by ICAZ, it has a 
professional society behind CC licensing and open sharing too, so that 
makes it feel more acceptable.

Thanks for circulating this Stefano!
-Eric

On 12/7/2010 3:07 AM, Stefano Costa wrote:
> Hi all,
> a few weeks ago Eric Kansa pointed me to an interesting collection of
> open material from the BoneCommons initiative:
>
>> I wanted to let you know that BoneCommons has some more
>> open (sorta) material here:
>>
>> http://www.alexandriaarchive.org/bonecommons/items/browse/tag/presentation+shared
>>
>> Unfortunately, most of the files aren't in nice open formats, PDF and
>> powerpoint dominate. But at least they can all be used by open source
>> software, and most content is under a CC-BY-SA license.
> I've now added a CKAN package for this collection (it would be great if
> we could mass-import from Omeka by means of RDF or DC metadata):
>
>          http://ckan.net/package/bonecommons
>
> Improve it at as you like.
>
> Ciao
> steko
>