[open-archaeology] Ethics, archaeology and open data

[Anthony Beck]

On 04/14/2010 07:05 PM, Jonathan Gray wrote:
> Federico: as I think we spoke about in Luxembourg - we'd be delighted
> to have a guest post on your research on reusing cultural heritage
> material on the OKF blog if you have time!
>    
Hi Jonathan and apologies for not replying before!

I will be delighted of posting something on reusing cultural heritage 
material on the OKF blog, but I think I need some more time to gather 
some more information and thoughts. I will definitely keep you informed 
about our progresses about these topics.

Best,

Federico


> On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 12:05 PM, Federico Morando
> <federico.morando at gmail.com>  wrote:
>    
>> I'm especially interested in this part of the article:
>>
>> By embarking on a "massive photocopying campaign", Fulford assimilated huge
>> amounts of data, representing a massive increase in both the number and type
>> of sites now known.
>>
>> The "photocopying" part is one of the most paradoxical aspects... Of course,
>> even if this information were publicly available on the Internet, part of
>> this literature would remain "gray", until some brilliant guy puts the
>> relevant pieces together. That said, what interests me are in particular the
>> legal obstacles to making this kind information publicly available (again, I
>> know that there are many other kind of obstacles, but I would like to start
>> from a sketch of the legal ones).
>>
>> In particular, I would like to examine two kind of issues:
>> 1) national laws about cultural heritage;
>> 2) the contracts between commercial archaeologists and their typical
>> clients, which may vary from country to country (they may be local
>> governments and/or local branches of the ministry of culture, the Italian
>> "archaeological superintendences" or the like).
>>
>> Part (1) is messy, but relatively straightforward. I started doing it for
>> Italy (and I will let you know the results of this research, as soon as I've
>> something decent to share) and I'm confident to receive some help to do the
>> same for France and, possibly, Greece.
>>
>> About part (2), is there somebody on the list able to forward me some (more
>> or less anonymized) copies of similar contracts?
>>
>> Of course, I'm willing to respect any kind of privacy requirements and you
>> can contact me by private email, but it would be very important for a better
>> understanding of this scenario, if somebody were able and willing to forward
>> me some copies of the contracts that commercial archaeologists typically
>> sign (I just read Italian, French, English and a bit of Spanish. but feel
>> free to send me stuff in other languages: I'll try to figure out a way to
>> understand it.)
>>
>> By the way, several of the potential "non-disclosure" (and/or intellectual
>> property related) clauses that could be contained in these contracts are not
>> specific of contracts with commercial archaeologists, but could appear in
>> any authorization or other document granting the right to dig, prospect or
>> do any kind of potentially archeology related activity (at least in
>> countries such as Italy); hence, I'm absolutely interested in these
>> contracts as well.
>>
>> To conclude, please notice that I'm just a law&economics researcher with a
>> (mainly personal) interest in archeology and cultural heritage legislation,
>> a field in which I'm a complete dummy, and a growing (also professional)
>> interest in public sector information. Hence, feel free to point me to
>> existing resources or literature already answering the questions I'm trying
>> to study from scratch, asking your help as far as contracts, authorizations
>> and grants received by archaeologist are concerned.
>>
>> Best regards,
>>
>> Federico
>>
>> Stefano Costa wrote:
>>
>> http://www.nature.com/news/2010/100407/full/464826a.html
>>
>>
>>
>> The explosion in commercial archaeology has brought a flood of
>> information. The problem now is figuring out how to find and use this
>> unpublished literature, reports Matt Ford.
>>
>>
>>
>> I think this article raises several points relevant for this working
>> group, for example in connection with the recent launch of OALibrary.
>>
>> Again, this is about the UK. Anyone care to tell us something more about
>> archaeological data in Germany, Spain, France, Greece or others?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Stefano
>>
>>
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