Working Groups/Archaeology

= Working Group on Open Data in Archaeology =

Purpose

 * 1) Act as a central point of reference and support for people interested in open archaeological data
 * 2) Identify relevant projects and practices. Promote best practices as well as legal and technical standards for making data open (such as the Open Knowledge Definition).
 * 3) Act as a hub for the development and maintenance of low cost, community driven projects related to open data and archaeology.

Members

 * Please see http://okfn.org/groups/archaeology/ and register yourself at http://okfn.org/register

Participate

 * To participate in the group's activities, please join our mailing list introducing yourself and saying
 * why you want to join the working group and
 * what you intend to contribute.

Meetings

 * The regular Meeting takes place third Wednesday of the month from 15.00-17.00 GMT
 * we keep /minutes of meetings
 * see http://wiki.okfn.org/wg/schedule for a general overview

Communication channels
There is a mailing list at http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/open-archaeology where anyone can subscribe.

Mailing list archives are public: be sure to read message #0 with a brief roadmap.

We have a dedicated Etherpad site at use it as you like. Etherpad and earbuds are used for realtime collaborative note-taking during conference calls and other meetings and has an embedded chat window as well.

Coordinating the working group

 * monthly audio conference calls
 * use the task manager (see below)
 * consolidate action in the UK, develop awareness in other countries

Tasks
We have a task tracker for long-term goals and structured actions. If you think you can use it, please ask for an account. It's mainly used by the Coordinator.

Sub-pages on this wiki

 * /bestpractices
 * /guidelines
 * /members
 * /minutes
 * /nationalstandards
 * /thesauri

Open Archaeology Data Group
Open Archaeology Data Group on CKAN - a community driven registry of open data in archeology, lists already registered open data resources

Is it open data?
Looking at whether existing projects are compliant Open Knowledge Definition and making publicly accessibly enquiries using

Open Archaeology News
Connotea: Bookmarks matching tag oa.archaeology is a collaborative tagging effort - the Open Access Tracking Project is here so seems a good place for our purposes
 * Open Data in Archaeology news/blog feed aggregation?
 * List relevant feeds + create, e.g. Friend Feed room for these?
 * #openarcheo is the proposed (hash)tag for everything related to Open Data in Archaeology

Blogging Open Archaeology
There is a blog at http://archaeology.okfn.org/ ‒ started in May 2011.

Ideas
Do you have an idea for a new open archaeology project? Submit your proposal to the group discussion list.