ARIADNE is funded under the European Commission's Seventh Framework Programme

What is an archaeological research infrastructure and why do we need it?

Aims and challenges of ARIADNE

Edeltraud Aspöck Guntram Geser

Content of talk

• What is an e-infrastructure for research?

• Why ARIADNE?

• Challenges of data sharing

e-Infrastructures for research

• Provide researchers with easy and controlled online access to

– Data and information resources

– Remote instruments

– Collaboration tools

• … across geographical, disciplinary and organizational boundaries

e-Infrastructures for research

• Different focus / types

– Data infrastructure

– Distributed computing (Grid, Cloud)

– Virtual research environment / community

ARIADNE (FP7-Infrastructures-2012-1-313193)

• Runs 4 years (started 02/2013)

• FP7 Instrument „Integrating Activity“

• Focus on archaeological datasets

• Funding 6.5m €

• Coordinators

• Prof. Franco Niccolucci, University of Florence

• Prof. Julian Richards, University of York

• Website: www.ariadne-infrastructure.eu

Why ARIADNE?

Community building • 24 partners of 18

European countries

• Open to other participants, e.g.

– Transnational Access Programme

– Special Interest Groups

Why ARIADNE?

ADS: 20.000 grey literature reports, 1.200.000 records

ARACHNE: 500.000+ images,

250.000 objects

GALLICA: several thousand reports

FASTI online: 12.000 reports

Collaboration on data sharing

eDNA: Dendrochrono-logy data (DCCD)

• mobilize • integrate • make

accessible (some examples)

Your data

SIGECweb: 270.000 records (archaeology)

ARIADNE overall goals…

to overcome the fragmentation of archaeological data repositories and to foster a culture of data sharing and re-using

EC 2012 survey „Do you agree with the following statement: Generally speaking, there is NO access problem to research data in Europe?”

European Commission, Online survey on scientific information in the digital age, 2012. Total survey participants: 1140. Germany: 422, France: 120, UK: 127, Italy: 95, NL: 39, Austria: 38, Belgium: 36, Greece: 27, …. (42 countries)

87% „Disagree“ or „Disagree strongly“

Why the „access problem“

• Behaviour of researchers contrary to what advocates of proper management and sharing of data would like them to do

• Most re-useable data remains locked away – On personal computers

– Portable storage carriers

– Restricted access servers

– Published with paper (i.e. supplemental material)

– Only 6–8% in community archive/repository

Where do researchers store/archive data?

PARSE.Insight survey 2009: 1202 respondents from different research domains and countries

Where do researchers store/archive data?

• “Science” journal 2011 survey of peer reviewers: 1700 responses – international and multi-disciplinary

• “Where do you archive most of the data generated in your lab or for your research?”

Note: archived ≠ curated

50.2% in our lab 38.5% university server 7.6% community repository 3.2% “other” 0.5% not stored

Driver for change: Funding policies

• High-level policies & initiatives

– OECD, EC Communications, Research Data Alliance,…

• National research funding agencies

– Open Access mandates extended to data

– Mandatory data management plans

• Austria

– Since 2013, Austrian Science Funds (FWF): open data mandate

– But no national data repository for archaeology!

Open Data – criteria

• Accessible

– Online, not necessarily without registration

• Reusable

– not summarized data (i.e. figures, charts, etc.) canned in publications

– state: raw, cleaned, normalized,… (accord. to practice)

– open format (e.g. not PDF doc)

• Openly licensed (e.g. CC-BY, if other no NonDerivative!)

• For free – yes, but somebody has to pay to ensure sustainability of repositories

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Challenges /1

• Documentation practices and semantics – different methods

– different languages

– different concepts / semantics

– different definitions of time periods, …

How to integrate data from different countries so that they can be cross-searched?

Related presentations:

• T. Oikarinen

• G. Mossakowski

• M. Doerr / G. Hiebel

• A. Masur / K. May

Challenges /2

• Data management & access – Heterogeneous data (different

types)

– Growing volumes

– High quality data + metadata

– Licensing

– Open access

How to manage data from project level to open access repositories?

Related presentations:

• F. Schäfer/ M. Trognitz (IANUS)

• U. Jakobsson (SND)

• H. Hollander (e-Depot)

Challenges /3

• E-infrastructure components and interoperability

– Humanities and natural sciences

– Text and visual data (images, 3D, video,…)

– Local and remote sensing data

– Big and Small (“long tail”) data...

How to make „interoperable“ data of different domains, types, scales…?

Related presentations:

• M. Charno / J. Richards

• C. Dallas / D. Gavrilis

• A. Corns / R. Shaw

• R. Scopigno / M.Dellepiane

• P. Constantopoulos / C.Dallas

• A. Volkmann

ARIADNE is a project funded by the European Commission under the Community’s Seventh Framework Programme, contract no. FP7-INFRASTRUCTURES-2012-1-313193.

The views and opinions expressed in this presentation are the sole responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the European Commission.