Working Groups/archaeology/minutes/2010-06

= Archaeology WG / First meeting =

Minutes from first phone meeting held on 2006-06-16 at 16:00 BST / 17:00 CEST.

Attendees

 * Stefano Costa
 * Anthony Beck
 * Sebastian Heath (who had to leave early)

Agenda

 * identity as a WG within OKFN and outside
 * choosing #openarcheo as our unique tag
 * questionnaire (see http://wiki.okfn.org/wg/archaeology/nationalstandards )
 * ethics in UK - event in fall 2010

Outcomes
(mostly from Ant's mindmap)

Identity
Identity as a working group within OKFN and outside.
 * The WG DOES things
 * What is the aim
 * Open up archaeological data
 * Top-Down: Lets understand how the data system work and influence change through knowledge
 * Bottom-Up: Persuade people to open up data

#openarcheo
Choosing #openarcheo as our unique tag, as suggested by Jo Walsh.
 * A good idea - primarily for twitter/identi.ca
 * Ant suggests alternative #archaeopen
 * OKF should also trawl synonyms: #openarchaeo and #openarcheo

(Great discussion about -ae- vs -e- vs -æ-) :-)

Questionnaire
See http://wiki.okfn.org/wg/archaeology/nationalstandards for the current draft.

Sebastian had to leave, reminded to check out the Digital Antiquity people


 * Questions
 * Why?
 * important to defining
 * Group Identity
 * Heterogeneity
 * regional
 * National
 * International
 * include
 * Aerial archaeology
 * Specialist analysis: Finds, Environmental
 * understanding of data flow
 * understanding of "planning" or "governmental" process
 * Questionaire
 * In google forms
 * Translate into as many languages as possible (Eastern europe anyone ?)
 * Dissemination
 * Whatever groups we have share it with
 * UNESCO?
 * EAC?
 * EAA?
 * Outcome
 * Can we get something ready in 3 weeks?

Ethics in UK - "Open Heritage" event in fall 2010

 * need to get this done after the ethics statement has been completed http://pad.okfn.org/ethicsStatement
 * Supporting documentation http://pad.okfn.org/ethics
 * focus should be on tackling difficult issues once there is a common ground for discussion
 * Should focus on UK first
 * as long as we ensure it is transferable to other countries, trying to highlight differences among them
 * however, don't want to be "culturally imperialistic" in practice

Other business - Topics

 * how do we progress with moving initiatives forward