Archaeology 2.0 new tools for communication and collaboration

Among these organizations include the Society for Historical Archaeology and the Fairfield Foundation. She is co-founder of the digital scholarly network MediaCommons, where she has led a number of experiments in open peer review and other innovations in scholarly publishing. Foley has expertise in metadata standards and digital repositories. She manages several Africa-related multimedia digital library projects involving collaborators from universities in North America and Africa.

These projects include: the Community Video Education Trust digital archive cvet. Foley also manages the American Black Journal Archive abj. She is currently coordinating the development of an NEH-funded digital archive of over , photographic negatives by four photographers from Mali, West Africa. His research regards the adaptive strategies Maa-speaking peoples undertake to adjust their land tenure customs to rapidly changing wildlife conservation practices near the Maasai Mara National Reserve in Kenya.

He was a Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship recipient for the first three years of his graduate studies, a Fulbright-Hays Group Project Abroad member for a language program in Tanzania, and — prior to his graduate studies — served as a public health volunteer in Kenya through the United States Peace Corps.

Brian currently serves as a research assistant for theLab for the Education and Advancement in Digital Research LEADR , a joint program between the departments of history and anthropology. His duties involve collaboration with faculty regarding digital projects, instruction of undergraduates in digital tools relevant to those projects, and advisement to graduate students and faculty members on digital research projects.

His first is Kenya-Tweet, which is an almost real-time geospatial tweet mapping project kenya-tweet. The UEE-DAL is envisioned as an open source service which will encompass both ongoing field work, excavations and 'heritage' data unpublished data from past excavations.

Project information can be found at www. A marriage of convenience: the possibilities of Service Oriented Architecture and Web 2. The relationship between Web 2. Here we review ways of combining them to deliver online archaeological services and complex data to user communities. Beyond Open Access: Open Data, Web services, and Semantics Eric Kansa, UC Berkeley and Sarah Whitcher Kansa, The Alexandria Archive Institute download audio file of the 15 minute presentation view slideshow Abstract : Simple web services delivering machine-readable data can help make archaeological information truly open and reusable for research, instruction, and creativity.

Open Context www. It includes Web 2. RESTful web services will soon enable new interface and presentation options. Can community-based solutions meet the complex semantic challenges of archaeological data? Web 2 and the Sociology of Archaeological Knowledge Robin Boast, University of Cambridge and Peter Biehl, SUNY Buffalo download audio file of the 15 minute presentation Abstract : Our traditional understanding of knowledge, of a discipline or in a discipline, on-line or off-line, assumes either a direct correspondence with the world or a systematic semantic correspondence with concepts.

Even Web 2 largely ignores the past 70 years of sociological and philosophical arguments for an understanding of knowledge as situated skillful practice. This paper explores, through several on-going projects, how both Web 2.

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