TY - JOUR
T1 - Enabling European Archaeological Research
T2 - The ARIADNE E-Infrastructure
AU - Aloia, Nicola
AU - Binding, Ceri
AU - Cuy, Sebastian
AU - Doerr, Martin
AU - Fanini, Bruno
AU - Felicetti, Achille
AU - Fihn, Johan
AU - Gavrilis, Dimitris
AU - Geser, Guntram
AU - Hollander, Hella
AU - Meghini, Carlo
AU - Niccolucci, Franco
AU - Nurra, Frederico
AU - Papatheodorou, Christos
AU - Richards, Julian
AU - Ronzino, Paolo
AU - Scopigno, Roberto
AU - Theodoridou, Maria
AU - Tudhope, Douglas
AU - Vlachidis, Andreas
AU - Wright, Holly
N1 - Electronic publication. This article is part of the proceedings of the 17th European Archaeological Council Heritage Management Symposium 2016 and publication has been funded by Historic England.
Aloia N, Binding C, Cuy S, Doerr M, Fanini B, Felicetti A, Fihn J, Gavrilis D, Geser G, Hollander H, Meghini C, Niccolucci F, Nurra F, Papatheodorou C, Richards J, Ronzino P, Scopigno R, Theodoridou M, Tudhope D, Vlachidis A, Wright H. 2017. Enabling European Archaeological Research: The ARIADNE E-Infrastructure. Internet Archaeology 43.
PY - 2017/3/13
Y1 - 2017/3/13
N2 - Research e-infrastructures, digital archives and data services have become important pillars of scientific enterprise that in recent decades has become ever more collaborative, distributed and data-intensive. The archaeological research community has been an early adopter of digital tools for data acquisition, organisation, analysis and presentation of research results of individual projects. However, the provision of e-infrastructure and services for data sharing, discovery, access and re-use has lagged behind. This situation is being addressed by ARIADNE: the Advanced Research Infrastructure for Archaeological Dataset Networking in Europe. This EU-funded network has developed an e-infrastructure that enables data providers to register and provide access to their resources (datasets, collections) through the ARIADNE data portal, facilitating discovery, access and other services across the integrated resources. This article describes the current landscape of data repositories and services for archaeologists in Europe, and the issues that make interoperability between them difficult to realise. The results of the ARIADNE surveys on users' expectations and requirements are also presented. The main section of the article describes the architecture of the e-infrastructure, core services (data registration, discovery and access) and various other extant or experimental services. The on-going evaluation of the data integration and services is also discussed. Finally, the article summarises lessons learned, and outlines the prospects for the wider engagement of the archaeological research community in sharing data through ARIADNE.
AB - Research e-infrastructures, digital archives and data services have become important pillars of scientific enterprise that in recent decades has become ever more collaborative, distributed and data-intensive. The archaeological research community has been an early adopter of digital tools for data acquisition, organisation, analysis and presentation of research results of individual projects. However, the provision of e-infrastructure and services for data sharing, discovery, access and re-use has lagged behind. This situation is being addressed by ARIADNE: the Advanced Research Infrastructure for Archaeological Dataset Networking in Europe. This EU-funded network has developed an e-infrastructure that enables data providers to register and provide access to their resources (datasets, collections) through the ARIADNE data portal, facilitating discovery, access and other services across the integrated resources. This article describes the current landscape of data repositories and services for archaeologists in Europe, and the issues that make interoperability between them difficult to realise. The results of the ARIADNE surveys on users' expectations and requirements are also presented. The main section of the article describes the architecture of the e-infrastructure, core services (data registration, discovery and access) and various other extant or experimental services. The on-going evaluation of the data integration and services is also discussed. Finally, the article summarises lessons learned, and outlines the prospects for the wider engagement of the archaeological research community in sharing data through ARIADNE.
KW - Cultural heritage
KW - E-infrastructure
KW - Computer Graphics
KW - data standards
KW - SKOS
KW - CIDOC-CRM
M3 - Article
SN - 1363-5387
VL - 43
JO - Internet Archaeology
JF - Internet Archaeology
ER -