[open-archaeology] World Archaeology special issue

Ant Beck ant.beck at gmail.com
Thu Dec 6 08:32:56 UTC 2012


OK. I am making an assumption that everyone is supportive of this. It 
would be nice if we could make a big splash and host all the articles as 
pre-prints in one place (essentially an open mirror to the closed world) 
with a page that summarises the whole content with links to the full 
articles.

If Steko agrees then I (or someone else) can contact Mark and the rest 
of the authors and co-ordinate this.

Agree? Steko - your opinion as group co-ordinator?

A
On 05/12/12 22:01, Leif Isaksen wrote:
> 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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