Why do we need DART?

Heritage detection - some issues

Knowledge (ever more data)

Understanding (interpretation)

Stamp collecting

Glorified navel gazing

Communication & synergy

Dave Cowley dave.cowley@rcahms.gov.uk

WHAT DO WE KNOW ABOUT HOW OUR DATA IS

CONSTRUED/STRUCTURED?

LOWLAND AREAS

• plough-levelled sites recorded as cropmarks

• ‘lowland’ archaeology revealed

• observer directed/biased survey

DETECTION

INFORMATION

HOW WE SEE

COMPLIMENTARITY

INVISIBILITY

PASTURE

‘…we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know.

We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there

are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns

- the ones we don't know we don't know.’

Date of Award: 2009

Embargo Date: 03 June 2012

WHO DEFINES THE QUESTIONS?

ADDING VALUE/SYNERGIES

RELEVANCE?

UPTAKE?

Kaczkowo, Kujawy Region. Poland - a Brześć Kujawski type settlement.Photo W. Rączkowski,25.05.2009. c IP UAM.

IS THIS A ‘SITE’?

DataIntegrationInformationKnowledgePolicy