id
	12880
Url
	https://chloe.cnr.it/s/BiDiAr/item/12880
Resource template
	Conference Paper
Resource class
	fabio:ConferencePaper
Title
	The challenges of digging data: a study of context in archaeological data reuse
Creator
	Faniel, Ixchel
	Kansa, Eric
	Whitcher Kansa, Sarah
	Barrera-Gomez, Julianna
	Yakel, Elizabeth
Publisher
	Association for Computing Machinery
Date
	2013
Language
	eng
Abstract
	Field archaeology only recently developed centralized systems for data curation, management, and reuse. Data documentation guidelines, standards, and ontologies have yet to see wide adoption in this discipline. Moreover, repository practices have focused on supporting data collection, deposit, discovery, and access more than data reuse. In this paper we examine the needs of archaeological data reusers, particularly the context they need to understand, verify, and trust data others collect during field studies. We then apply our findings to the existing work on standards development. We find that archaeologists place the most importance on data collection procedures, but the reputation and scholarly affiliation of the archaeologists who conducted the original field studies, the wording and structure of the documentation created during field work, and the repository where the data are housed also inform reuse. While guidelines, standards, and ontologies address some aspects of the context data reusers need, they provide less guidance on others, especially those related to research design. We argue repositories need to address these missing dimensions of context to better support data reuse in archaeology.
Is Part Of
	Proceedings of the 13th ACM/IEEE-CS joint conference on Digital libraries
Spatial Coverage
	New York, NY, USA
Cited by
	12585
Editor
	Downie, Stephen
	McDonald, Robert
Doi
	https://doi.org/10.1145/2467696.2467712
Isbn
	978-1-4503-2077-1
Pages
	295–304
Short title
	The challenges of digging data
Uri
	https://doi.org/10.1145/2467696.2467712
Homepage
	https://www.zotero.org/groups/5293298/bidiar/items/FUQ48GUM/item-list
In series
	JCDL '13

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