[open-archaeology] Ethics, archaeology and open data

Anthony Beck ant.beck at gmail.com
Tue May 11 17:36:20 UTC 2010


Hi All,

I'm really glad this has struck a chord. Thanks Jo and Eric for the
pointers. Nick Poole's aspirational stuff is a good starting point (at least
at the institutional level).

It looks like we've got enough interest to move this forward and that there
is commonality with lines of thought in ADS, JISC, EDINA is really
encouraging. So should we meet up to discuss things?

If everyone agrees on meeting up that I'm happy to co-ordinate.The offer of
space at the ADS is much appreciated (thanks Michael and Stuart). I take it
that we should go with this. As Jo said it's reasonably central and the
discussants so far are closer to York than London (I have an inherent bias
as I am based in Leeds). I am at the ADS on the 18th for a workshop so can
chat to Michael and Stuart about room availability, dates and logistics.

As regards content/agenda/detail (again assuming we're having a meeting at
some unspecified  point in the future), this would need to be a community
effort. Jo (W) you probably have the best handle on what's going on in the
surrounding space: your advice and help would be appreciated.

For some reason I feel I'm getting ahead of myself, but the momentum is
good. My only other thoughts are: if this is a UK meeting I assume we'll try
and put everything into an international arena. And, we need to distinguish
between indigenous/cultural ethics (that may/could/should be addressed
already) and data access/granularity ethics (I would equate this with
sharing information on migration patterns of an endangered species - which
could be misused by poachers (this is actually an ethical issue we're
looking at on another project so............))

Anyway, many thanks

Ant

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On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 3:15 PM, Michael Charno <mdc502 at york.ac.uk> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> This is all really interesting and definitely a worthy discussion...
>
> <snip />
>
>
> On 11/05/10 13:28, Jo Walsh wrote:
>
>> There was a suggestion there might be space in JISC's London office
>> but it could also be good to do something at the ADS in York, a meeting in
>> the middle sort of a place, packed with heritage.
>>
>>
> Just talked to Stuart Jeffrey about hosting something here at the ADS and
> we reckon that there shouldn't be a problem booking a room for a workshop
> (depending on whether its during term time or not).  We would probably only
> be able to provide a venue, but if someone else is interested in organising
> it we would be very interested in participating/contributing.
>
> Cheers,
> michael
>
>
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