Enabling European Archaeological Research: The ARIADNE E-Infrastructure

H.S. Hollander, Nicola Aloia, Ceri Binding, Sebastian Cuy, Martin Doerr, Bruno Fanini, Achille Felicetti, Johan Fihn, Dimitris Gavrilis, Guntram Geser, Carlo Meghini, Franco Niccolucci, Federico Nurra, Christos Papatheodorou, Julian Richards, Paola Ronzino, Roberto Scopigno, Maria Theodoridou, Maria Theodoridou, Douglas TudhopeAndreas Vlachidis, Holly Wright

Research output: Contribution to journal/periodicalArticleScientificpeer-review

34 Citations (Scopus)

Abstract

Research e-infrastructures, digital archives and data services have become important pillars of scientific enterprise that in recent decades has become ever more collaborative, distributed and data-intensive. The archaeological research community has been an early adopter of digital tools for data acquisition, organisation, analysis and presentation of research results of individual projects. However, the provision of e-infrastructure and services for data sharing, discovery, access and re-use has lagged behind. This situation is being addressed by ARIADNE: the Advanced Research Infrastructure for Archaeological Dataset Networking in Europe. This EU-funded network has developed an e-infrastructure that enables data providers to register and provide access to their resources (datasets, collections) through the ARIADNE data portal, facilitating discovery, access and other services across the integrated resources. This article describes the current landscape of data repositories and services for archaeologists in Europe, and the issues that make interoperability between them difficult to realise. The results of the ARIADNE surveys on users' expectations and requirements are also presented. The main section of the article describes the architecture of the e-infrastructure, core services (data registration, discovery and access) and various other extant or experimental services. The on-going evaluation of the data integration and services is also discussed. Finally, the article summarises lessons learned, and outlines the prospects for the wider engagement of the archaeological research community in sharing data through ARIADNE.
Original languageEnglish
Article number43
JournalInternet Archaeology
Volume17
Issue number43
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2017

Keywords

  • cultural heritage
  • E-infrastructure
  • computer graphics
  • data standards
  • SKOS
  • CIDOC-CRM

Fingerprint

Dive into the research topics of 'Enabling European Archaeological Research: The ARIADNE E-Infrastructure'. Together they form a unique fingerprint.

Cite this