SHOW US YOUR WORKING: AN ARCHAEOLOGY METHOD STOREDr. Anthony Beck

University of Leeds

Science in the open

Open Science, Open Process, New collaborations

It’s about the scientific process

The aim: connectivity

Traditional Process

Open Process

Open Methods

Open Methods provide transparent access to the process

The user controls and understands the data processing and transformation

From Black Box to White Box

The Method Store: VISION

A repository that facilitates the collaborative development of methodologies and stops the community re-inventing the methodological wheel.

A framework that is not intimidating for users, allowing all sectors of the domain to participate, but allows potentially rich data objects to be submitted (such as Taverna workflows).

A system that allows links to be drawn between methodologies to indicate, for example, synergy, workflow or provenance.

An environment which captures the cloud of discussion/narrative surrounding the development or forking of a method.

The Method Store: VISION

What is proposed is a methodology store: an environment within which methods, algorithms etc. can be • deposited, • shared, • tagged, • linked, • chained, • developed.

The Method Store: Content

The Future: Workflows

methods.okfn.org