Session: #729

Theme & Session Format

Theme:
Theories and methods in archaeological sciences
Session format:
Session, made up of a combination of papers, max. 15 minutes each

Title & Content

Title:
Towards the appropriate representation of large scale landscape data for archaeological purposes - management, integration and standardization
Content:
The future of landscape archaeology is determined by increasingly potent technologies, rapidly collecting data from vast areas. Many low-threshold devices and applications make technologies available for nearly everyone, applying e.g. aerial photography, metal detection, geophysics, soil chemistry and bio-archaeology the landscape and producing data, with the capacity to enrich the granulation of landscape information within a region. Moreover, heterogeneity of the data requires teams of researchers contributing information on a landscape. Research Data of such large-scale landscape projects is often kept fragmented, administered by the different institutions in various archives after, but also during projects and are only pieced together for a final publication. Especially when it comes to archiving and summing up projects the actual data (raw data as well as interpretation) is often diminished to a set of coordinates and an attribute, in many cases not an adequate representation of its complex character and multi-layered information.
We are looking for joint approaches that (try to) break this kind of workflow and establish a joint (data) management, not only for archiving but also for analysis and interpretation of this kind of landscape data, being more complex than just as a spatial location. Shared approaches, best practices and the appropriation of common standards in the filing, utilization and systematically interpretation of complex archaeological landscape data. Proposals might vary from archaeological working group experiences and ideas on how to tackle the problem, up to the employment, enrichment and early integration of common standards in digital landscape characterization such as INSPIRE.
Keywords:
landscape-data, management, integration, standardisation, teamwork-platforms
Session associated with MERC:
no
Session associated with CIfA:
no
Session associated with SAfA:
no

Organisers

Main organiser:
Dr. Ruth Beusing (Germany) 1
Co-organisers:
Dr. Stephen Davis (Ireland) 2
Dr. Knut Rassmann (Germany) 1
Affiliations:
1. Römisch-Germanische Kommission des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts
2. Department of Archaeology, University College Dublin