New Articles and Abstracts
The Future of Scholarly Communication: Building the Infrastructure for Cyberscholarship
Sponsored by NSF and the (British) Joint Information Systems Committee (2007)
“The widespread availability of digital content creates opportunities for new forms of research and scholarship that are qualitatively different from traditional ways of using academic publications and research data. We call this "cyberscholarship".
The widespread availability of content in digital formats provides an infrastructure for novel forms of research. To support cyberscholarship, such content must be captured, managed, and preserved in ways that are significantly different from conventional methods.”
American Council of Learned Societies' Commission on Cyberinfrastructure for Humanities and Social Sciences (2006)
“The emergence of the Internet has transformed the practice of the humanities and social sciences—more slowly than some might have hoped, but more profoundly than others may have expected. Digital
cultural heritage resources have become a fundamental data-set for the humanities: these resources, combined with computer networks and software tools, now shape the way that scholars discover and make sense of the human record, while also shaping the way those understandings are communicated to students, colleagues, and the general public.”
NSF's Cyberinfrastructure Vision for 21st Century Discovery
NSF Cyberinfrastructure Council (2006)
“Today’s scientists and engineers need access to new information technology capabilities, such as distributed wired and wireless observing network complexes, and sophisticated simulation tools that permit exploration of phenomena that can never be observed or replicated by experiment. Computation offers new models of behavior and modes of scientific discovery that greatly extend the limited range of models that can be produced with mathematics alone.”
Sharing Publication-Related Data and Materials: Responsibilities of Authorship in the Life Sciences
Committee on Responsibilities of Authorship in the Biological Sciences, National Research Council (2003)
"Biologists communicate to the research community and document their scientific accomplishments by publishing in scholarly journals. This report explores the responsibilities of authors to share data, software, and materials related to their publications. In addition to describing the principles that support community standards for sharing different kinds of data and materials, the report makes recommendations for ways to facilitate sharing in the future."
Ecological Informatics: a Long-Term Ecological Research Perspective
William K. Michener et al. (1997)
"Scientists within the Long-Term Ecological Research
(LTER) Network have provided leadership in ecological
informatics since the inception of LTER in 1980. The
success of LTER, where research projects span wide
temporal and spatial scales, depends on the quality and
longevity of the data collected. Scientists have devised
data collection, data entry, data access, QA/QC and
archiving strategies for ensuring that high quality data are
appropriately managed to meet the needs of a broad user
base for decades to come. The LTER cross-site Network
Information System (NIS) is being developed to foster
data sharing and collaboration among sites."
Archived Articles and Abstracts
Doing Much More Than We Have So Far Attempted
EDUCAUSE Review
Donald J. Waters (2007)
The broadening deployment of computer-based data-conversionand
data-capture instruments and sensors has greatly expanded the scale of humanistic, social, and scientific data for scholars to digest...(more)
Snow, Dean R. et al. (2006)
The need for service-oriented cyberinfrastructure (CI) has been reported (1–4). Further development of archiving and search tools...(more)
The Challenge of Archaeological Data Integration
Kintigh, Keith W. (2006)
Archaeological insights have enormous potential to contribute to the understanding of longterm social and socioecological dynamics...(more)
Gardin, Jean-Claude (2002)
‘Archaeological discourse’ in the title of this paper covers a wide variety of texts written by professional scholars in order to present the results of their research...(more)
The Promise and Challenge of Archaeological Data Integration
Kintigh, Keith (2006)
For archaeology to achieve its potential to provide long-term scientific understandings of human history... (more)
What's New
Mellon All-Projects Meeting: Archaeology, New York, March 2008
View the Archaeoinformatics Presentation
Joint Disciplinary and Technical Advisory Board Meeting, Santa Fe, February 2008
Joint Disciplinary and Technical Advisory Board Final Report
Technical Board Recommendations
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Archaeoinformatics.org
Formation of the Board of Directors
Evaluation of Existing Initiatives
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Joint Disciplinary and Technical Advisory Board Report
Take our Survey- 'Current Conditions and Needs in the Field'
New and Archived Articles and Abstracts
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