1. Beyond BoneCommons: Recent Developments in Zooarchaeological Data Sharing
Sarah Whitcher Kansa (Open Context / Alexandria Archive Institute)
Eric C. Kansa (UC Berkeley School of Information)
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2. Main Points Motivation behind BoneCommons “remodel”
Discuss landscape of zooarchaeology on the Web
Overcoming fragmented resources

3. Key Needs
Easy to use
Relevant
Comprehensive
“Quality”
Time-saving

9. Downloadable resource with proper citation, licensing, and metadata

10. and / or copyright permissions
Downloadable resource with proper citation, licensing, and metadata
MUST be submitted by the author
and / or copyright permissions

19. More professional
More flexible
Better organized
Easier editorial control (more secure)
Proper citation, licensing, and metadata

20. No one resource can do it all!

21. [ZOOARCH]

26. Beware of “information silos”

28. Free, open access (privacy)
Archiving
Citable
Stable URLs
All media & data linked
CC licenses
Export / reuse

29. Data sharing as publication

33. Stable URI for every item to citable human-readable version and also machine-readable version

34. Link to published and unpublished reports drawing on these primary data

35. Citation provided for each item or group of items; use with Zotero

36. Search results summarized as facets to guide exploration

37. Integrated Results “Bos” search yields: 3 regions 6 projects
7 cultural periods
32 images

38. Integrated Results

39. Querying Across Projects

40. Data Aggregation & Integration
Atom web services for data portability, distributed search, aggregation

41. Data Aggregation & Integration

46. All digital resources should be:
easy to FIND,
AGGREGATE,
UNDERSTAND,
and REUSE

47. YOU
[ZOOARCH]

48. 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

49. Next Steps for ICAZ Inventory resources Identify developers of sites
Find complementarities
Coordinate efforts to share content between sites

50. 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)

51. 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?