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Archaeometry Community Survey: a platform that promotes data standardisation, sharing, dissemination, and extensive national networking

 

Introduction

This survey is primarily aimed at researchers whose work involves the scientific analysis of archaeological materials. This initiative is conducted by the Deutsches Bergbau-Museum Bochum (DBM) in the framework of NFDI4Objects, an integral part of the National Research Data Infrastructure dedicated to the material heritage of human and environmental history. 

DBM is one of the executive members in the task area "Analytics and Experiments", which will cover platforms, standards and services for desktop-based research, controlled experiments, and laboratory-based analysis of objects. 

This survey is designed to obtain an overview of the following research practices for analytical data: 

  1. How do you organise your analytical data and associated metadata, especially those related to measurement parameters and experimental protocols? 
  2. What kind of tools or data services do you use or desire for data collection, data analysis, data evaluation, data dissemination, and data archiving? For instance, Authority File and Vocabulary Services (AVS), Data Services (DaS), Software Application Services (SAS), and Discovery Services (DiS).

Your answers and suggestions would provide us with guidelines to establish a national platform that facilitates data standardisation, data sharing and exchange, the provision of desired service tools, and extensive national networking among the archaeometry community. Meanwhile, this survey will also be used to build up a catalogue of analytical services potentially offered by archaeometrically-oriented laboratories.

In addition, we are looking for potential researchers or institutions who would like to participate in our temporary working group, "Metadata Profiles for Analytical Methods in Archaeometry.".

The survey consists of five sections: 

  1. Basic information (4 questions)
  2. General awareness and involvement (6 questions)
  3. Research practices and standards (7 questions)
  4. Current challenges and needs (3 questions) 
  5. Further participation (1 question) 

Depending on the depth of your knowledge and experiences, the survey may take anywhere from 15 to 20 minutes to complete. Feel free to pause and resume at your convenience. Unless you choose to subscribe to our mailing list, all data will be collected anonymously. 

Deadline: Please submit your answers before June 10, 2024. 

For further inquiries, please do not hesitate to reach out to

Dr. Yiu-Kang Hsu (yiu-kang.hsu@bergbaumuseum.de)

Dr. des. Ingolf Löffler (ingolf.loeffler@bergbaumuseum.de)

There are 20 questions in this survey.
This survey is anonymous.

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