Book: Archaeology 2.0: New Approaches to Communication and Collaboration

Archaeology 2.0: New Approaches to Communication and Collaboration
Kansa, Eric C.; Kansa, Sarah Whitcher; Watrall, Ethan (eds.)
Cotsen Digital Archaeology Series

• List of Figures
• List of Tables
• Volume Editors
• List of Contributors
• Preface
• Acknowledgments

• INTRODUCTION : New Directions for the Digital Past
• SECTION I: A Web of Archaeological Data: Infrastructure, Services, and Interoperability
  • CHAPTER 1: The Archaeology Data Service and the Archaeotools Project: Faceted Classification and Natural Language Processing
  • CHAPTER 2: Toward a Do-It-Yourself Cyberinfrastructure: Open Data, Incentives, and Reducing Costs and Complexities of Data Sharing
• SECTION II: The Technical and Theoretical Context of Archaeology on the Web
  • CHAPTER 3: Poor Relatives or Favorite Uncles? Cyberinfrastructure and Web 2 0: A Critical Comparison for Archaeological Research
  • CHAPTER 4: Archaeological Knowledge Production and Dissemination in the Digital Age
• SECTION III: Archaeological Data Management and Collaboration
  • CHAPTER 5: Creating a Virtual Research Environment for Archaeology
  • CHAPTER 6: iAKS: A Web 2 0 Archaeological Knowledge Management System
  • CHAPTER 7: User-Generated Content in Zooarchaeology: Exploring the “Middle Space” of Scholarly Communication
• SECTION IV: Sustainability, Quality, and Access
  • CHAPTER 8: UCLA Encyclopedia of Egyptology, Archaeological Data, and Web 2 0
  • CHAPTER 9: Open Access for Archaeological Literature: A Manager’s Perspective
  • CHAPTER 10: What Are Our Critical Data-Preservation Needs?
• CONCLUSION : Web 2 0 and Beyond, or On the Web, Nobody Knows You’re an Archaeologist

Announced 18 August at:

This book explores the social use and context of the World Wide Web within the discipline of archaeology. While the Web has radically altered journalism, commerce, media and social relationships, its sees very uneven adoption in professional scholarly contexts. Case studies discussed in this book help illuminate patterns of adoption and resistance to new forms of scholarly communication and data sharing. These case studies explore social media, digital preservation, and cultural representation concerns, as well as technical and semantic challenges and approaches toward data interoperability. Contributors to this volume debate the merits and sustainability of open access publishing and how the Web mediates interactions between professional and nonprofessional communities engaged in archaeology.

Archaeology 2.0 is the first book in the Cotsen Institute’s new Digital Archaeology Series. The editors want to thank all of the book’s contributors, and also the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press, especially Julie Nemer, Carol Leyba, and Willeke Wendrich. The printed version will be available for purchase shortly.