Czech archaeology in the Digital Environment – Digitizing Archaeological Agenda in Theory and Practi
Channel: Recording Archaeology
Date: 25/10/2020

In the last years, Czech archaeology took several important steps in the process of digitizing its  agenda.  Following  previous  projects  (including  ARIADNE),  in  2016,  the  Archaeological  Information  System  of  the  Czech  Republic  (AIS  CR;  http://www.aiscr.cz/en/)  was  built  as  a  national solution for research management, data gathering, curation and presentation. Since 2017, its main part – the Archaeological Map of the Czech Republic (AMCR) – is in operation and it already covers fieldwork activities of more than 100 licensed archaeological organisations. The paper summarises our approaches and practical solutions, with focus at the possibilities of infrastructures integration on the national and European level. The importance of archaeolog-ical theory and its connection to the practice will be stressed as a key to make infrastructures suitable for researchers. With the upcoming ARIADNEplus project, the role of national-wide infrastructures in the process of facilitating international research will be discussed.


Jan Hasil, David Novák