Advanced Research Infrastructure for Archaeological Dataset Networking in Europe

ARIADNE

Advanced Research Infrastructure for Archaeological Dataset Networking in Europe
ARIADNE (FP7-INFRASTRUCTURES-2012-1) aims to integrate the existing archaeological research data infrastructures so that researchers can use the various distributed datasets and new and powerful technologies as an integral component of the archaeological research methodology. There is now a large availability of archaeological digital datasets that altogether span different periods, domains and regions; more are continuously created as a result of the increasing use of IT. They are the accumulated outcome of the research of individuals, teams and institutions, but form a vast and fragmented corpus so that their potential is constrained by difficult access and non-homogenous perspectives. To achieve this result, the project will use a number of integrating technologies that build on common features of the currently available datasets, and on integrating actions that will build a vibrant community of use. This integrating activity will enable trans-national access of researchers to data centres, tools and guidance, and the creation of new Web-based services based on common interfaces to data repositories, availability of reference datasets and usage of innovative technologies. It will stimulate new research avenues in the field of archaeology, relying on the comparison, re-use and integration into current research of the outcomes of past and on-going field and laboratory activity. Such data are scattered amongst diverse collections, datasets, inaccessible and unpublished fieldwork reports "grey literature", and in publications, the latter still being the main source of knowledge sharing.
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Completed
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European
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Partners

AU-Aarhus - University Department of Culture and Society Aarhus, CNRS-FRANTIQ - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Fédération et Ressources sur l'Antiquité, Nanterre FSI, Fornleifastofnun Íslands IAA - Israel Antiquities Authority IBC - Institute of Cultural Heritage, Regione Emilia Romagna ICCD - Central Institute for Cataloguing and Documentation SSCol - Soprintendenza Speciale per il Colosseo, Il Museo Nazionale Romano e l'Area Archeologica di Roma SITAVR - Dipartimento TeSIS e di Informatica di Verona VU - VU University Amsterdam MCH - Museum of Cultural History, University of Oslo, Oslo DGPC - Direção-Geral do Património Cultural, Lisbon Universidad do Minho, Guimarães CENIEH - Centro Nacional de Investigación sobre la Evolución Humana, Burgos IAI-UJA - Instituto Universitario de Investigación en Arqueología Ibérica. Universidad de Jaén, Jaen IAPH - Archaeological Institute of the Andalusian Heritage, Sevilla UU - University of Umea