Archaeology 2.0
New Approaches to Communication and Collaboration
edited by Eric C. Kansa, Sarah Whitcher Kansa and Ethan Watrall
Paperback (Out of print)
(November 2011)
ISBN: 9781931745857
5.94 x 9.02 inches
Price: $39.95
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How is the Web transforming the professional practice of archaeology? And as archaeologists accustomed to dealing with “deep time,” how can we best understand the possibilities and limitations of the Web in meeting the specialized needs of professionals in this field? These are among the many questions posed and addressed in Archaeology 2.0: New Approaches to Communication and Collaboration, edited by Eric Kansa, Sarah Whitcher Kansa, and Ethan Watrall. With contributions from a range of experts in archaeology and technology, this volume is organized around four key topics that illuminate how the revolution in communications technology reverberates across the discipline: approaches to information retrieval and information access; practical and theoretical concerns inherent in design choices for archaeology’s computing infrastructure; collaboration through the development of new technologies that connect field-based researchers and specialists within an international archaeological community and scholarly communications issues, with an emphasis on concerns over sustainability and preservation imperatives. This book not only describes practices that attempt to mitigate some of the problems associated with the Web, such as information overload and disinformation, it also presents compelling case studies of actual digital projects–many of which are rich in structured data and multimedia content or focused on generating content from the field “in real time,” and all of which demonstrate how the Web can and is being used to transform archaeological communications into forms that are more open, inclusive, and participatory. Above all, this volume aims to share these experiences to provide useful guidance for other researchers interested in applying technology to archaeology.
INTRODUCTION: New Directions for the Digital Past by Eric C. Kansa SECTION I: A Web of Archaeological Data: Infrastructure, Services, and Interoperability Ch. 01: The Archaeology Data Service and the Archaeotools Project: Faceted Classification and Natural Language Processing by Julian Richards, Stuart Jeffrey, Stewart Waller, Fabio Ciravegna, Sam Chapman, and Ziqi Zhang Ch. 02: Toward a Do-It-Yourself Cyberinfrastructure: Open Data, Incentives, and Reducing Costs and Complexities of Data Sharing by Eric C. Kansa and Sarah Whitcher Kansa SECTION II: The Technical and Theoretical Context of Archaeology on the Web Ch. 03: Poor Relatives or Favorite Uncles? Cyberinfrastructure and Web 2.0: A Critical Comparison for Archaeological Research by Stuart Dunn Ch. 04: Archaeological Knowledge Production and Dissemination in the Digital Age by Robin Boast and Peter Biehl SECTION III: Archaeological Data Management and Collaboration Ch. 05: Creating a Virtual Research Environment for Archaeology by Michael Rains Ch. 06: iAKS: A Web 2.0 Archaeological Knowledge Management System by Ethan Watrall Ch. 07: User-Generated Content in Zooarchaeology: Exploring the "Middle Space" of Scholarly Communication by Sarah Whitcher Kansa and Francis Deblauwe SECTION IV: Sustainability, Quality, and Access Ch. 08: UCLA Encyclopedia of Egyptology, Archaeological Data, and Web 2.0 by Willeke Wendrich Ch. 09: Open Access for Archaeological Literature: A Manager's Perspective by Jingfeng Xia Ch. 10: What Are Our Critical Data-Preservation Needs? by Harrison Eiteljorg CONCLUSION: Web 2.0 and Beyond, or On the Web, Nobody Knows You're an Archaeologist by W. Fredrick Limp
- Edited by Eric C. Kansa
- Edited by Sarah Whitcher Kansa
- Edited by Ethan Watrall
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Critical Archaeology in the Digital Age
Proceedings of the 12th IEMA Visiting Scholar's Conference
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