ARIADNEplus for public/community archaeology
Channel: Recording Archaeology
Date: 02/09/2020

The presentation will provide a first outline of the plans for the ARIADEplus subproject (Task 18.5 – ARIADNEplus for public/community archaeology). The aim of the task is to pave the way for an inclusion of members of the general public making archaeological discoveries and to demonstrate the added value of ARIADNEplus for non-professional archaeologists. This will be achieved through the incorporation of principles of citizen science and crowd-sourcing. In particular, the task will develop the integration of metal detector finds in the ARIADNEplus infrastructure by facilitating the harvesting of data from the different national user driven re-cording schemes, which already cooperate under the umbrella of the European Public Finds Recording Network: DIME (DK), MEDEA (Flanders), PAS (England and Wales), PAN (The Netherlands), SuALT (Finland). These schemes all aim at the inclusion of archaeological ob-jects found by members of the public in the archaeological record and at making them pub-licly  assessable  for  researchers  and  the  general  public  alike.  Being  to  some  extent  based  on  user contribution, their development over the past decades is closely linked with more general tendencies towards inclusive approaches in heritage management and the paradigm of digital humanities. The presentation will focus on the functionality and the underlying vision behind the  newly  launched  Danish  recording  scheme  for  metal  detector  finds  DIME  (https://www.metaldetektorfund.dk/) and related initiatives in Europe, and how we envision the integration of the different schemes within ARIADNEplus. Project partners are: o MEDEA (Pieterjan Deck-ers) o PAS (Michael Lewis) o PAN (Stijn Heeren) o SuALT (Suzie Thomas & Anna Wessman) o DIME (Andres Dobat & Peter Jensen). The presentation will provide a first outline of the plans for the ARIADEplus subproject (Task 18.5 – ARIADNEplus for public/community archaeol-ogy). The aim of the task is to pave the way for an inclusion of members of the general public making archaeological discoveries and to demonstrate the added value of ARIADNEplus for non-professional archaeologists. This will be achieved through the incorporation of principles of  citizen  science  and  crowd-sourcing.  In  particular,  the  task  will  develop  the  integration  of  metal detector finds in the ARIADNEplus infrastructure by facilitating the harvesting of data from the different national user driven recording schemes, which already cooperate under the umbrella of the European Public Finds Recording Network: DIME (DK), MEDEA (Flanders), PAS (England and Wales), PAN (The Netherlands), SuALT (Finland). These schemes all aim at the inclusion of archaeological objects found by members of the public in the archaeological record and at making them publicly assessable for researchers and the general public alike. Being to some extent based on user contribution, their development over the past decades is closely linked  with  more  general  tendencies  towards  inclusive  approaches  in  heritage  management  and the paradigm of digital humanities. The presentation will focus on the functionality and the underlying vision behind the newly launched Danish recording scheme for metal detector finds DIME (https://www.metaldetektorfund.dk/) and related initiatives in Europe, and how we envision the integration of the different schemes within ARIADNEplus. Project partners are: o MEDEA (Pieterjan Deckers) o PAS (Michael Lewis) o PAN (Stijn Heeren) o SuALT (Suzie Thomas & Anna Wessman) o DIME (Andres Dobat & Peter Jensen).


Andres Dobat