[open-archaeology] World Archaeology special issue

Wed Dec 5 17:27:28 UTC 2012

+1 from me :-)

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On 05/12/12 16:40, Stefano Costa wrote:
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> Dear all,
> as some of you may already know the current issue of World Archaeology
> is a special issue, edited by Mark Lake, dedicated to "Open Archaeology":
>
> 	http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rwar20/44/4
>
> Most papers deal with open data, its creation, dissemination and use.
> I have had a chance to read preliminary versions of some papers and it
> is truly a state-of-the-art discussion of the potential, problems and
> established good practice in this field. As Mark puts it in the
> introduction to the volume, there has been a tendency for literature
> about open [data|access|source software] in archaeology to be confined
> to the realm of "archaeological computing" and it is only rarely that
> mainstream archaeology has a chance to learn about the ground-breaking
> developments we are collectively making. In this sense, the value of
> this work is going to be reflected also by the impact it will have on
> future archaeological work, globally.
>
> Some of the authors have expressed their discontent (or rather they
> are doing it right now as I write, in the twittersphere) for the
> contradiction of a volume on "open archaeology" that is not itself
> open (i.e. Open Access). Possibly some or all of the papers could be
> collected in pre-print form and re-published at our blog on the OKFN
> website. We will post any updates here.
>
> Congratulations again to all the authors!
>
> Ciao
> Stefano
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