[open-archaeology] Journal of Open Archaeology Data

[Benjamin Ducke]

(Sorry for top-posting.)

Hi All,

I agree with Stefano's view that open data
publication must be advertised more aggressively
(actually, that's probably rather my own interpretation
of his view).

Unfortunately, sessions for the upcoming CAA and
EAA 2014 are already decided. But CHNT 2014
is still totally open for all kinds of suggestions
for sessions, round tables, workshops and papers:

http://www.stadtarchaeologie.at/

It's conveniently located in the Vienna town hall,
inexpensive and low-key, and 99% English speaking.
Plus, the proceedings are open access.

I would love to see some open data/access enthusiasts
at CHNT and would be willing to co-chair a dedicated
sessions.

Season's greetings,

Ben

On 12/20/2013 09:11 PM, Stefano Costa wrote:
> Il 16/12/2013 18:02, Samuel Moore ha scritto:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I wanted to let you know that the Journal of Open Archaeology Data
>> currently seeks peer-reviewers, editorial board members and authors
>> for the coming year. Please do get in touch if you'd like to get
>> involved! You can visit the site here:
>> http://openarchaeologydata.metajnl.com/
>>
>> The journal features peer-reviewed data papers describing archaeology
>> datasets with high reuse potential. A data paper is a publication
>> that is designed to make other researchers aware of open data that is
>> of potential use to them. As such, it describes the methods used to
>> create the dataset, its structure, its reuse potential, and a link to
>> its location in a repository. It is important to note that a data
>> paper does not replace a research article, but rather complements and
>> links to it.
>>
>> I'd be especially keen to hear how the list feels we could be better
>> serving the community and attracting/encouraging archaeologists
>> outside the open data community too. I'd also be interested to hear
>> whether there are any important repositories missing from our list:
>> http://openarchaeologydata.metajnl.com/about/editorialPolicies#custom-0
> 
> Sam,
> thanks for your email.
> 
> With my coordinator hat on: we would appreciate a lot if JOAD was more
> visible on this mailing list (e.g. submit a notice when a new data paper
> is out), that has been missing until now. I can imagine that in most
> cases, people who contribute to the working group are willing to share
> their comments and constructive criticism about published papers (in a
> kind of post-print open peer review), either here or on the JOAD website.
> 
> With my JOAD editorial advisory board member hat: I see lot of potential
> for JOAD, especially now that Internet Archaeology has started
> publishing data papers - IMHO that is not competition but proliferation
> and it will bring benefits (btw their approach to peer review is very
> promising and brings fresh air into papers that area always potentially
> boring - data is boring on its own). A few months ago I sent a few
> emails to make sure that the MAPPA Open Data archive was listed among
> the repositories, and that happened. At the moment I am advocating data
> papers among colleagues in Italy, and I encourage other members to do
> the same. That is not an easy task and there is still a lot of
> resistance. Counterintuitively young researchers are more cautious than
> their older professors, advisors or bosses: showing real, beautiful
> things that can be done with open data is something we still don't do as
> much as needed. Other specific initiatives to encourage JOAD as a
> publishing venue could be e.g. to offer winners of the CAA Recycle Award
> a reduced publication fee (in some cases this would require the data
> under study to become open in the first place).
> 
> Finally, leaving away all the previous hats [0] the area that seems
> weaker at this moment is, as you also noted, attracting archaeologists
> outside the open data community. One thing we should do is to actively
> inform those sub-disciplinary communities that could be interested by a
> specific open data (paper) and try to engage in a constructive debate
> that is focused on the advantages for that specific field of studies and
> not on the general, theoretical good stemming from open data. Personally
> I am increasingly annoyed with "normal" papers where more than half of
> the content is a lengthy, biased selection of data bits from a study and
> discussion and conclusions are a few paragraphs - not much for the extra
> reading but because I have to do stuff like georeferencing and tracing
> maps, manually copying tables to a spreadsheet from a PDF, etc. That I
> want and need to reuse data is only normal, either because I'm trying to
> visualise information in its wider disciplinary context, statistically
> comparing to my own data, or making a fortune by reselling hardcover
> editions of crappy papers in Comic Sans.
> 
> I hope others will add more insightful comments, and while we're at it,
> on the shortest day of the year in the Northern emisphere, best wishes
> to all
> 
> -steko
> 
> [0] mandatory reference is to the history of archaeology as seen through
> headgear, visible at
> http://archaeologists-in-the-media.blogspot.it/2011/03/chapter-4-what-are-they-wearing.html
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