Waiting in the Wings: The content, deposition and documentation of digital archaeological archives
Channel: Recording Archaeology
Date: 2019-12-17

This presentation will describe the current issues surrounding the composition, deposition and documentation of digital archaeological archives, including ambiguity around what a digital archive should include, low deposition rates and limited guidance for documentation; highlighting that currently standards that define what an archaeological archive is are not always met and will describe the work being undertaken to tack these issues.



Claire Tsang, Historic England


Speaker biography
Claire has worked with Archaeological Archives for 19 years, increasingly working with digital data. She is currently Archaeological Archives Curator for Historic England, and is a member of the European Archaeology Consilium Archaeological Archives Working group, Society for Museum Archaeology committee, and CIfA Information Management Special Interest Group committee. She is also secretary for the Archaeological Archives Forum.