Good data management and online access

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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

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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  

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•  28,000+  archaeological  unpublished  fieldwork  reports  (the  “grey  literature”)  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  

hdp://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk  

hdp://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk  

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  usage  

ARIADNE  workshop,  Computer  ApplicaLons  in  Archaeology  Conference,  Paris,  April  2014  

ADS  visitors  

67%  

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11%  

United  Kingdom  

United  States  

Italy  

Australia  

Germany  

Canada  

Spain  

France  

Ireland  

Netherlands  

Others  

ADS  users  

FasL  Online  

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  usage  •  Average  number  of  users  per  month:  – 2013:  1,343    – 2014:  >1,500  

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.    

ARACHNE  

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.  

Data  Management  

Guides  to  Good  PracLce  

Guides  to  Good  PracLce  

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.