Working Groups/archaeology/minutes/2010-09

Agenda
Original agenda:


 * ethics statement (involves audio interviews, writing the actual statement)
 * data questionnaire (requires writing questionnaire, maybe translating, disseminating)
 * restructuring of wiki page (creating sub-pages, separating introduction from in-progress content)

Discussion was mainly focused on this last item:


 * methodology store proposal

Attendees

 * Stefano Costa
 * Anthony Beck
 * Federico Morando (economist, amateur numismatist, doing research on open data)
 * David Stott
 * Oscar Aldred (interested in visualization of process)

Minutes

 * importance of building a community around the method store
 * 3 things
 * paradox of techie software
 * relationships between different players
 * have links between different scales and approaches, not only remote sensing (<-> avoid exceedingly specific software)
 * OKF and CBA are a guarantee against domain specificness
 * What's the best way to deliver a method store to a community?
 * worry about wiki approach: it tends toward consensus and in methodological discussions we may be more interested in discussion than in consensus...
 * Communities: under what umbrella do we operate?
 * OKF
 * CBA
 * What kind of content are we thinking about?
 * text? video? images? multimedia?
 * (CC licensing is fine)
 * algorithms
 * Semi-private method store
 * we don't have to do this
 * Issues to address
 * Recognition: how do people get credit
 * Credance: it has to be authoritative
 * Discussion is as important as content
 * Ability to show diversity/forking in approach
 * Persistent URI
 * Software
 * Wiki: has the problem about being consensus driven
 * Agenda
 * To bridge the gap between data and publication
 * Big wins
 * e.g. in the framework of INSPIRE it provides a meta-overview of how archaeology is conceptually understood on a trans-national basis
 * How to kickstart the project?
 * Stefano: if the project doesn't take off in a few months, it's probably dead...
 * David Stott --> PhD students
 * starting with 2 or 3 strong sub-domain groups is fine
 * DART project will contribute at least over 3 years
 * Target universities with this as a teaching resource