Open Research across Disciplines

How the principles of open research can be applied to your discipline

Archaeology and Classics

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Case Studies

UKRN case study: digital humanities, geo-spatial technologies and linked open data

University of Surrey case study: A corpus approach to Roman law: Legal history meets computational linguistics | University of Surrey

University of York case study: Romans at Home: a collaborative outreach project with people living with dementia – York Open Research – York Wiki Service

Examples of open research practices

Open Methods: “One of the most promising vector-based information to be made available on the web is an eXtensible Markup Language (XML)-based solution called Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG). SVG was defined by a working group of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and has subsequently become their official recommendation for representing vector graphics on the Web in XML (Eisenberg 2002, 6; Watt 2002, xviii). Because SVG is an XML application, it is freely available, not dependent on a particular browser or platform, and interoperable with other XML applications. Large-scale plan and section drawings originally created on Permatrace were digitised by Guy Hopkinson for use in the Internet Archaeology publication Excavations at Cricklade, Wiltshire, 1975, by Jeremy Haslam, designed as an exercise in ‘retrospective publication’, to illustrate how traditional forms of visual recording might be digitised for online publications.

https://intarch.ac.uk/journal/issue20/wright_index.html

Resources

General Resources

B, et al. (2017). Open Science in Archaeology. SAA Archaeological Records, 17(4), 8-14. Doi: 10.17605/OSF.IO/3D6XX
Huggett, J. (2017). Reuse remix recycle: repurposing archaeological digital data. Advances in Archaeological Practice, 6(2), 93-104. Doi: 1017/aap.2018.1
Karoune and Plomp (2022). Removing Barriers to Reproducible Research in Archaeology (Version v2). Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6618672
Presentation on Registered Reports in Archaeology. OSF

Open Methods

Papers covering open methods in Archaeology. https://core.tdar.org/collection/29739/open-methods-in-archaeology-how-to-encourage-reproducible-research-as-the-default-practice
Open methods and resources.
- https://archaeologicalnetworks.wordpress.com/resources/
- https://library.ics.sas.ac.uk/open-access-resources

Open Data

Archaeology data service. https://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/
Open access data.
Open software.
- https://github.com/benmarwick/ctv-archaeology
- https://open-archaeo.info/
Marwick, B., & Birch, S. (2018). A Standard for the Scholarly Citation of Archaeological Data as an Incentive to Data Sharing. Advances in Archaeological Practice, 6(2), 125-143. doi:1017/aap.2018.3

Open Outputs

Preprint repository.
Open Access journal/data/catalogue.

This page is adapted and extended from: Farran, E. K., Silverstein, P., Ameen, A. A., Misheva, I., & Gilmore, C. (2020, December 15). Open Research: Examples of good practice, and resources across disciplines. https://doi.org/10.31219/osf.io/3r8hb