[open-archaeology] World Archaeology special issue

[Jessica Ogden]

+1 from me too! Many congrats to everyone on the publication.

I'm looking forward to getting past the paywall and reading everyone's
contributions to this very important, ongoing discussion.

Best,
Jess x


On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 5:27 PM, Ant Beck <ant.beck at gmail.com> wrote:

> +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<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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