Data, Digital Ephemera, and Dead Media: Digital Publishing and Archaeological Practice

Abstract

Archaeology, like so many academic disciplines, is in the midst of a period of dramatic change. One of the major sources of this change is the dramatic development of information technologies and how these impact on scholarly communication, particularly the publishing process. This paper explores some of these issues, and argues that a conservation ethic for data preservation be adopted that is explicitly digital.

Keywords

• archaeology
• data
• digital
• archive
• publishing
• practice
• information technology