Post on 14-Jul-2015
ARIADNE is funded by the European Commission's Seventh Framework Programme
Good Data Management and Online Access Professor Julian Richards Archaeology Data Service, University of York, UK
ARIADNE online services • Online access: – Archaeology Data Service, UK – FasL Online, Italy – ARACHNE, DAI, Germany
• Workshops: – EAA Pilzen, Sept 2013 – CAA Paris, April 2014 – EAA Istanbul, Sept 2014
• Data Management: Guides to Good PracLce
Archaeology Data Service, UK • 1.3 million metadata records cataloguing the Archaeology of the BriLsh Isles
• 28,000+ archaeological unpublished fieldwork reports (the “grey literature”)
• 5000+ journal arLcles, and online monographs
• 700+ research archives • Text, spreadsheets, databases, GIS, laser-‐scanning, CAD, geophysics, 3D models
ADS usage • 1st February 2013 -‐ 31st July 2014: 393,964 unique visitors including 234,607 downloads and 3,030,646 page views.
• 22nd-‐ 25th ARIADNE workshop, CAA, Paris: – The average number of visits to the ADS website calculated across the three weekends in April prior to the conference is 2125
– the weekend following the conference the number of visits to the ADS website increased by over 25% to 2755
ADS visitors
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United Kingdom
United States
Italy
Australia
Germany
Canada
Spain
France
Ireland
Netherlands
Others
AIAC: FasL Online • Online database of archaeological excavaLons undertaken across the Classical World since 2000
• 12,000+ excavaLon reports and site summaries from across the Mediterranean.
FasL online users First language of FasL users
Europe is the source of 84% of FasL users with a further 10% coming from North America.
DAI: ARACHNE • ARACHNE: Object database of more than one million images of finds, architecture and excavaLons
• ZENON: the basic online card index of all books available in DAI libraries worldwide and access to digital monographs and journals.
ARACHNE usage
1 Feb 2013 – 31 July 2014: • 387,390 sessions by 198,876 users • Average number of pages per session was 7.66 • Average session duraLon was 6 minutes and 5 seconds. • 3% of site users (76,423) have visited the ARACHNE website more than
15 Lmes. • 50% Repeat visitors and 50% new visitors
ARACHNE usage First language of ARACHNE users:
Europe accounts for around 89% of users with a further 6% from North America.
Acknowledgments ARIADNE is a project funded by the European Commission under the Community’s Seventh Framework Programme, contract no. FP7-‐INFRASTRUCTURES-‐2012-‐1-‐313193. The views and opinions expressed in this presentaLon are the sole responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the European Commission.