[open-archaeology] World Archaeology special issue

Wed Dec 5 22:01:21 UTC 2012

And from me! Whatever the struggles with the publisher, this is an
important contribution so a hearty congratulations to Mark and all
concerned for putting it together.

Best

L.

On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 6:41 PM, Ant Beck <ant.beck at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 05/12/12 18:06, Jessica Ogden wrote:
>
> +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.
>
> Me too. I'm an author and at an academic institution that does not subscribe
> to World Archaeology. The lack of open access, as Steko notes, was a major
> point of conversation.
>
>
> Best,
> Jess x
>
>
> On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 5:27 PM, Ant Beck <ant.beck at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> +1 from me :-)
>>
>> A
>>
>> 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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