[open-archaeology] Ethics, archaeology and open data

[Jo Walsh]

dear Ant, all, thanks for all this, great to hear that ADS are up for 
hosting.

On 11/05/2010 18:36, Anthony Beck wrote:
> 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.

Hm i will look out for things in the digital humanities space, consult.
In terms of practical organising, i'm helping put together an 
afternoon/evening open knowledge conference in Edinburgh this Thursday 
and it has been no sweat - given the signup rate we could have done a 
whole day without much more effort as OKCon could easily have done two.

Here's the boring practical checklist for the logistics, which includes 
a/v setup which probably wouldn't be necessary:
http://wiki.okfn.org/okscotland/logistics

In short there is not much to it as long as you have min. three people 
organising who can carry one anothers' slack etc - with this good crowd 
it would be essentially self-organising.
What to use as a name to link from here
http://wiki.okfn.org/wg/archaeology#OpenHeritageEvent ?

> 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............))

Guessing we'd hope to attract and support a few international delegates.

Maps of ethics would be good.

best,


jo
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