ARIADNE is funded by the European Commission's Seventh Framework Programme

The ARIADNE projectThe ARIADNE project

Franco Niccolucci

PIN

Project Coordinator

Franco Niccolucci

PIN

Project Coordinator

What is ARIADNE• ARIADNE is a EU-funded project aimed at integrating

the European Research Infrastructures on archaeological datasets

• Its overall goal is to overcome the fragmentation of archaeological data repositories and to foster a culture of data sharing and re-using

• ARIADNE is managed by a partnership joining the excellence of European archaeology and technology, and is open to the collaboration of researchers, professionals and institutions from anywhere in Europe and abroad

• ARIADNE is a EU-funded project aimed at integrating the European Research Infrastructures on archaeological datasets

• Its overall goal is to overcome the fragmentation of archaeological data repositories and to foster a culture of data sharing and re-using

• ARIADNE is managed by a partnership joining the excellence of European archaeology and technology, and is open to the collaboration of researchers, professionals and institutions from anywhere in Europe and abroad

Why ARIADNE

Percentage of archaeological projects in dataset size groups

“Average” size of project datasets

The “data deluge”

Why ARIADNEWillingness to share, use and re-use•400.000 downloads from the Archaeological Data Service (ADS) repository of ”grey” literature (unpublished archaeological reports) in 6 years (5.500/month)•45.000 downloads from ADS in three months in 2010 (15.000/month)•94% of respondents to a SAA survey state they would use electronic data more, if they were accessible•ARACHNE visits: 82.000 in 2010, 140.000 in 2011

• Open Access for Science initiative

Willingness to share, use and re-use•400.000 downloads from the Archaeological Data Service (ADS) repository of ”grey” literature (unpublished archaeological reports) in 6 years (5.500/month)•45.000 downloads from ADS in three months in 2010 (15.000/month)•94% of respondents to a SAA survey state they would use electronic data more, if they were accessible•ARACHNE visits: 82.000 in 2010, 140.000 in 2011

• Open Access for Science initiative

Why ARIADNE

Need of integration•Go beyond academic or administrative borders•Integrate datasets overlapping in scope•Access unpublished information

Need of integration•Go beyond academic or administrative borders•Integrate datasets overlapping in scope•Access unpublished information

ADS: 18.000 grey literature reports1.100.000 records

ARACNE: 500.000+ images250.000 objects

GALLICA: several thousand reports

SIGECweb: 270.000 records

(archaeology)FASTI online:

12.000 reports

How to achieve integration

Data sharing requires•Suitability of somebody else’s data for one’s purposes•Interoperability of datasets•Trusting in data collected by others•Guarantee of data “provenance”

Data sharing requires•Suitability of somebody else’s data for one’s purposes•Interoperability of datasets•Trusting in data collected by others•Guarantee of data “provenance”

What is interoperabiltyWhat do interoperability and provenance mean?•Interoperability: capability of different information systems to communicate•Syntactic interoperability: communicate on the symbolic level, resolving differences in encodings and representation– Technical and social problem

•Semantic interoperability: communicate with shared meanings– Intellectual and research question

•Digital Provenance: which (additional) data must be stored to make data trustworthy

What do interoperability and provenance mean?•Interoperability: capability of different information systems to communicate•Syntactic interoperability: communicate on the symbolic level, resolving differences in encodings and representation– Technical and social problem

•Semantic interoperability: communicate with shared meanings– Intellectual and research question

•Digital Provenance: which (additional) data must be stored to make data trustworthy

The ARIADNE partnership• Coordination– PIN– UoY-ADS

• Coordination– PIN– UoY-ADS

Project activities• Networking activities– Community building– Standardization and good practices

• Trans-National Access to shared datasets and training in their creation, as well as to on-line repositiories

• Research activities– Knowledge organization– Data management– New or improved tools to extract information

• Networking activities– Community building– Standardization and good practices

• Trans-National Access to shared datasets and training in their creation, as well as to on-line repositiories

• Research activities– Knowledge organization– Data management– New or improved tools to extract information

What we hope to achieve

• By achieving the project objectives we aim at giving answers to three grand challenges:– A social challenge, concerning the community of

archaeologists– A technological challenge, addressing

improvements in the current use of ICT– A scientific challenge, re-shaping concepts both

from the IT domain and the archaeological method

• By achieving the project objectives we aim at giving answers to three grand challenges:– A social challenge, concerning the community of

archaeologists– A technological challenge, addressing

improvements in the current use of ICT– A scientific challenge, re-shaping concepts both

from the IT domain and the archaeological method

The grand challenges: social• Identify and shape a community of science,

formed by institutions, researchers and professionals from inside and outside the project

• Understand and make explicit their needs, wishes and dreams

• Outline a roadmap for now and for tomorrow

• Provide answers to their requests

• Identify and shape a community of science, formed by institutions, researchers and professionals from inside and outside the project

• Understand and make explicit their needs, wishes and dreams

• Outline a roadmap for now and for tomorrow

• Provide answers to their requests

The grand challenges: technological

• Set up a satisfactory level of interoperability• Provide services that build practical use on it• Make using and re-using data a common

practice in archaeological research, as it is today browsing bibliographical references

• Set up a satisfactory level of interoperability• Provide services that build practical use on it• Make using and re-using data a common

practice in archaeological research, as it is today browsing bibliographical references

The grand challenges: scientific• Understand how knowledge organization

must be improved to make technological advance possible and suitable

• Explore new avenues for making the best out of accumulated knowledge

• Move towards a paradigm shift in the use of a digital framework, and make it a substantial component of the archaeological methodology

• Understand how knowledge organization must be improved to make technological advance possible and suitable

• Explore new avenues for making the best out of accumulated knowledge

• Move towards a paradigm shift in the use of a digital framework, and make it a substantial component of the archaeological methodology

ARIADNE is a project funded by the European Commission under the Community’s Seventh Framework Programme, contract no. FP7-INFRASTRUCTURES-2012-1-313193.

The views and opinions expressed in this presentation are the sole responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the European Commission.

ARIADNE is a project funded by the European Commission under the Community’s Seventh Framework Programme, contract no. FP7-INFRASTRUCTURES-2012-1-313193.

The views and opinions expressed in this presentation are the sole responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the European Commission.