Comparing Digital Archaeological Repositories: tDAR Versus Open Context

Sheehan, Beth

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Title

Comparing Digital Archaeological Repositories: tDAR Versus Open Context

Author(s)

Sheehan, Beth

Issue Date

2015-12-03

Keyword(s)

• archaeology data
• data repository comparison
• online data repositories
• Open Context
• The Digital Archaeological Record
• tDAR

Abstract

In the last decade, two online archaeology data repositories, Digital Antiquity’s The Digital Archeological Record (tDAR) and the Alexandria Archive Institute’s (AAI) Open Context, have emerged in the United States as key players in the development of technology and web platforms for preservation and public online access to archaeological research data. The need for these services has intensified since 2011, in the wake of U.S. federal open access mandates and funding agency data management plan requirements for grant applications. Through a comparison of selected features of tDAR and Open Context, this paper highlights similarities and key differences in their designs, data management policies and practices, and provides guidance to subject specialist librarians and others who advise archaeological researchers about how these differences can impact the suitability of each repository for specific data characteristics.

Publisher

Taylor & Francis Group

Type of Resource

text

Language

en

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http://hdl.handle.net/2142/88682

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1080/01639269.2015.1096155

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This is an electronic version of the post-print final draft of an article whose final and definitive form has been published in Behavioral & Social Sciences Librarian with license by Taylor & Francis. Behavioral & Social Sciences Librarian is available online at: http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/wbss20 .

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