Beyond BoneCommons: Recent Developments in Zooarchaeological Data Sharing Sarah Whitcher Kansa (Open Context / Alexandria Archive Institute) Eric C. Kansa (UC Berkeley School of Information) Unless otherwise indicated, this work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License <http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/>
Main Points Motivation behind BoneCommons “remodel” Discuss landscape of zooarchaeology on the Web Overcoming fragmented resources
Key Needs Easy to use Relevant Comprehensive “Quality” Time-saving
Downloadable resource with proper citation, licensing, and metadata
and / or copyright permissions Downloadable resource with proper citation, licensing, and metadata MUST be submitted by the author and / or copyright permissions
More professional More flexible Better organized Easier editorial control (more secure) Proper citation, licensing, and metadata
No one resource can do it all!
[ZOOARCH]
Beware of “information silos”
Free, open access (privacy) Archiving Citable Stable URLs All media & data linked CC licenses Export / reuse
Data sharing as publication
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Stable URI for every item to citable human-readable version and also machine-readable version
Link to published and unpublished reports drawing on these primary data
Citation provided for each item or group of items; use with Zotero
Search results summarized as facets to guide exploration
Integrated Results “Bos” search yields: 3 regions 6 projects 7 cultural periods 32 images
Integrated Results
Querying Across Projects
Data Aggregation & Integration Atom web services for data portability, distributed search, aggregation
Data Aggregation & Integration
All digital resources should be: easy to FIND, AGGREGATE, UNDERSTAND, and REUSE
YOU [ZOOARCH]
Open Context and BoneCommons Approach: Simple ways of exposing content for open reuse Simple ways of searching across multiple sites Simple approaches to data integration/ aggregation across the Web
Next Steps for ICAZ Inventory resources Identify developers of sites Find complementarities Coordinate efforts to share content between sites
Internet Archive (media repository services) Special Thanks Iain, Cécile, and all session participants! The United States National Endowment for the Humanities Doris and Donald Fisher University of Chicago: OCHRE Project Internet Archive (media repository services)
Panel Discussion What is the value of collaboration and database integration? What are some examples of digital resources that seem to be working well for researchers and why? What are the primary challenges in fostering use of digital resources?