The challenges of digging data: A study of context in archaeological data reuse

Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 295-304

  Faniel, Ixchel ^a   Kansa, Eric ^b   Kansa, Sarah Whitcher ^c   Barrera Gomez, Julianna ^a   Yakel, Elizabeth ^d  

^a OCLC Research   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c Alexandria Archive Institute   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Archaeology; Data management; Data reuse; Data standards

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGY; CENTRALIZED SYSTEMS; DATA COLLECTION; DATA DOCUMENTATION; DATA REUSE; DATA STANDARDS; RESEARCH DESIGNS; STANDARDS DEVELOPMENT;

DATA ACQUISITION; DIGITAL LIBRARIES; HISTORY; STANDARDS;

INFORMATION MANAGEMENT;

EID: 84882251539     PISSN: 15525996     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2467696.2467712     Document Type: Conference Paper

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