StefanoCosta

Stefano Costa
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Archaeologist, PhD student at the University of Siena. Coordinator of the Working Group on Open Data in Archaeology. I run http://www.iosa.it/ with satellite websites and projects.

Interested in promoting open (as in open definition) in the archaeological field, meaning:
 * open data
 * open access to scholarly literature
 * free/open source software (and documentation)
 * open formats

Some notes about open archaeology
Archaeology has some “special issues” compared both to humanities in general and to natural sciences, given its hybrid status and the wide definition of the discipline. One of the common concepts between all branches is however the focus on material remains, and this poses another set of problems given that almost every country has a different law framework for cultural heritage, ranging from the very restrictive (Greece, Italy) to countries where once the government gives a researcher permission to “do things” he's basically free to do anything, with lots of intermediate positions.

Moreover, most if not all archaeological information is spatial by nature, meaning that the same issues that arise for geodata can apply to some degree also here.

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