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Archaeological documentation practices have changed profoundly during recent decades, which has had a great impact on archaeological data ? how it is collected, structured and stored. This in turn has consequences for how data can be analyzed and how knowledge is created, and even which knowledge can be created. The changes of our practices are first and foremost driven by a technological development, however, increasing theoretical concerns are voiced and a discussion theorizing the digital development is seen.
In this talk a comparison of manual and digital documentation methods as described in a case study performed in 2014 will be used as a starting point for a discussion concerning these consequences, for example the impact on the archaeological interpretation process, the possibility of innovation and international objectives such as the FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) principles. In addition, a more recent study integrating new digital developments and applications in archaeological documentation and language documentation, is pointing towards solving some of the discussed issues but also lead to other questions e.g. concerning manageability of data.

Dr Ã…sa Berggren is senior lecturer in archaeology at the Lund University. Her research areas include the intersection between theory and practice and development of methods of archaeological field practice, e.g. digital practice and how this impacts the process of archaeological interpretation. Her research is focused on Neolithic remains, e.g. wetland deposits. Her theoretical focus is practice theory, ritual theory and theory on material culture. After more than 25 years as a contract archaeologist in Scania, she is also interested in the development and conditions of Swedish contract archaeology.

The video is available in YouTube with subtitles.

Kontaktperson för denna film
Isto Huvila, Institutionen för ABM

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CAPTURE research project investigates what information about the creation and use of research data that is paradata) is needed and how to capture enough of that information to make the data reusable in the future. The wickedness of the problem lies in the practical impossibility to document and keep everything and the difficulty to determine how to capture just enough. The empirical focus of CAPTURE is archaeological and cultural heritage data, which stands out by its extreme heterogeneity and rapid accumulation due to the scale of ongoing development-led archaeological fieldwork. Within and beyond this specific context, CAPTURE develops an in-depth understanding of how paradata is being created and used today, elicits methods for capturing paradata, tests new methods in field trials, and synthesises the findings in a reference model to inform the capturing of paradata and enabling data-intensive research using heterogeneous research data stemming from diverse origins. This project has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme grant agreement No 818210.

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5. CAPTURE Talk #5 Isabel Eiser: D-WISE: With Manual and Digital Approaches towards a Tool Suite for Discourse Analysis
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