Open archaeology

Project site (development wiki in Norwegian)

Keywords

wiki, interpretation, museum mediation, collective knowledge building

Overview

Development of a learning and dissemination environment for archeology, focussing on processes and participation. Based on wiki, blog and semantic web technologies.

Aims

• To develop web based resources to mediate the archaeology, with a focus on the excavation process, the process of knowledge building, interpretation and the doubts embedded in the scientific process.
• The web resource is aimed at three user groups: schools, the general public, museum visitors and researchers and students.
• The web resource connect knowledge as relations and process with research databases for excavations, discoveries, photos etc.
• The resources use semantic web technologies to bridge knowledge in various user groups.

Methods

Partners

Open archaeology is a long term project and a collaboration between
Museum of Cultural History and InterMedia.

Unit for Digital Documentation have been involved in the use of CIDOC CRM in Open Archeology.

MUSIT have been involved in providing an interface for the research databases.

Duration

2006 - 2007

Outcomes

The project site is going to be officially released by the end of 2007.

See also the two reports from the project:

• Fra gjenstand til fortelling Åpen arkeologi som ressurs for forskning og undervisning 2006 PDF, i Norwegian
• Blogg og wiki - kikkehull inn i arkeologisk feltarbeid (in Norwegian).

Related projects

ENCODE01

Funding

Internally funded by the University of Oslo.