Using technologies to promote projects

Anthony Beck, University of Leeds

DART Project Champion

Presentation on slideshare DARTProject

Things to keep in mind

CommunicationPhotosVideosPresentationsPublicationsReferencesKnowledge

Where is the data?

Social Media is NOT mass communication

ENGAGEMENT CONNECTION RELATIONSHIPS

Authenticity + Transparency

+ Relevency =

WHUFFIE

Bringing it all together

• API• RSS

• Content• Consumers• Re-use

Exemplar - DART

• What are the best ways to employ the different sensors (a multi-sensor approach) for the greatest heritage return?– In particular how do we improve the use of different sensors in

regional/national prospection programmes?– What are the best conditions (e.g. environmental, seasonal,

weather, crop) for deployment?

DART Open Science

• 25 heritage, industry and academic partners• The best way to keep everyone informed is to

adopt an open science philosophy– Wherever practicable all data will be in the public

domain as soon as possible in accessible repositories• Will allow the science to be dynamically shared

with colleagues throughout the world– Improve the scientific process– Improve results– Improve impact– More WOW moments

TH: it’s about communication and engagement

Fresh view: a conversation not a lecture

TH: Impact, citations, profile

TH: Serendipity

Gaining new:• Collaborators• Opportunities• Audiences• Stakeholders• Thinking

TH: Licences determine everything

TH: Creativity

Data

In practice

Implications of silo-ed data

• No synergy• Cripples the

knowledge frameworks

• Less effective– Research– Policy– Impact

Interpretation

SynthesisX

The tree of knowledge

The Future

• Open Data• Open Access• Open Science• Open Policies• Linked Data

• Semantic Web glues these together

The present: Grey Literature

Grey Literature

• Solution– OA: http://library.thehumanjourney.net/ – WA: http://www.wessexarch.co.uk/reports

• Prof. Richard Bradley – Reading Uni– http://www.nature.com/news/2010/100407/full/464826

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– Visited contract units– Collated ‘grey literature’– Transformed

• Theory and interpretative frameworks • Understanding of Bronze Age settlement patterns and

dynamics– He unleashed the potential of Grey Literature

Will we unlock the “Grey Data”?

The Future: Linked Dynamic Data

• Archaeological knowledge acquisition is a dynamic process

• Dynamic feedback allows theories/practice to be tested or revised

Interpretation

Synthesis

An archaeology of dynamic linked data

Heritage: a complex tapestry

Let’s keep it this way

Things to keep in mind

References

• Slideshare – ~

 Using Creative Commons & Social Media to Create, Share, Network and Build Your Personal Brand

• Flickr – ~ Snowmen – ~ Network – ~ Magnetic Pieces – ~ MicroFormats and Semantic Glue – ~ Water Droplet – ~ Ethics – ~ Copyright – ~ Access/Wikileaks – ~ Data – ~ Community – ~ Coast