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Cotsen Friday Seminar Series: Data Sharing as Publication

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"DATA SHARING AS PUBLICATION: MAKING A SILK PURSE OUT OF A SOW’S EAR" Sarah W. Kansa, Co-Founder & Executive Director of the Alexandria Archive Institute and Eric C. Kansa, Executive Director of the Information and Service Design Program at UC Berkley School of Information, Co-Founder and Former Executive Director of the Alexandria Archive Institute

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When	February 10, 2012 04:00 PM February 10, 2012 06:00 PM February 10, 2012 from 04:00 pm to 06:00 pm
Where	Fowler Museum Bldg., Eleanor Deutsch Seminar Room
Contact Name	Hannah Lau
Contact Email	Hannah.Lau@ucla.edu
Contact Phone	310-825-4169
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Archaeology, a discipline that often relies upon destructive methodologies, urgently needs to make data sharing and preservation an accepted norm. However, the realities of professional incentives and the lack of clear research outcomes based on shared data inhibit many from participating. This presentation will explore a model of “data sharing as publication” using examples from Open Context (http://opencontext.org), an open access data publication platform. Presenters Eric Kansa and Sarah Whitcher Kansa, archaeologists and open data evangelists, will discuss the challenges and benefits of publishing data on the web, including professional incentives, ethical issues, copyright concerns, and approaches to working with “messy” data. Finally, they will raise questions regarding how technology can shape understandings of the past. Does good data management require monolithic standardization and centralization? How will broad access to digital data impact the way we do research (methods, interpretations, and collaborations)?

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