SEADDA

Created

2019

Contact

Iolanda Pensa

SUPSI

for Wikimedia related activities

Collaborators

over 100 members representing 31 COST countries and four International Partner Countries, https://www.seadda.eu

Duration: 2019- – 2021-

Archaeology, open data

Research:Projects

This page documents a research project in progress.
Information may be incomplete and change as the project progresses.
Please contact the project lead before formally citing or reusing results from this page.

SEADDA Saving European Archaeology from the Digital Dark Age is a group of archaeologists and digital specialists working together to secure the future of archaeological data. This page is meant to coordinate the contribution of the Wikimedia community to the project, making sure that needs/requests from our community are taken into consideration in particular for the use and re-use of data. https://www.seadda.eu

Archaeological Data[edit]

Essentially the group focuses on four areas, corresponding to four working groups.

Stewardship of Archaeological Data
Planning for Archiving
Preservation and Dissemination Best Practice
Use and Re-use of Archaeological Data

The working group 4 related to use and Re-use of Archaeological Data aims at understanding how to optimise Archaeological archives and interfaces to maximise the use and re-use of archaeological data, and explore how archaeological archives can better respond to user needs, and ways to document and understand both quantitative and qualitative re-use.

Collaboration with the online collaborative communities (such as the Wikimedia projects and OpenStreetMap)[edit]

I want to make sure that the use and re-use of archaeological data is also possible on the Wikimedia projects and OpenStreetMap and that the needs/requests of the community are heard.

Archaeological Data on the Wikimedia projects and on OpenStreetMap[edit]

Preserving cultural heritage at risk online[edit]

Connected Open Heritage. Preserving cultural heritage at risk online, and giving people easy access to it (2016-2017) is a major international project for preserving cultural heritage at risk online. It started a review of policies and institution in many countries. The research is not completed for each country but is an interesting starting point to understand the requests/needs of the online community, to support institutions working in the field of archaeology https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Connected_Open_Heritage/Countries

New Palmyra https://www.newpalmyra.org/. A project created by Bassel Khartabil focusing on Palmyra and now working in recostructing 3D models of destroyed heritage.

Collaboration with institutions related to archaeology (museums, organisations)[edit]

The online communities working on collaborative projects such as Wikipedia, the Wikimedia projects and OpenStreetMap call the heritage and cultural organisation with the acronym GLAM (galleries, libraries and they call these collaboration WikiGLAM or Open GLAMs (according to who is promoting these partnerships).

Wiki Loves Monuments is a major yearly event focusing on cultural heritage and including archaeology.
Partnership with UNESCO.
Wikiexpeditions: events during which Wikipedia contributors visit a site, take photos of it, upload content on Wikimedia Commons and on Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects.
Editathon: events during which Wikipedia contributors edit Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects.


Country	Period	Institution	Activity	Link
Spain	2012	Archaeology Department of the City of Barcelona	Wiki Workshop
Macedonia	2015, 2016		Archaeoexpeditions^[1]
Spain	2017	National Archaeological Museum, Madrid	Meeting, Wikipedian in residence	Wikimedia Blog/Drafts/Three state museums open the doors to Wikimedia Spain/en
Spain	2017	Museo de Prehistoria de Valencia	Editathon Women and Archaeology, in Valencia^[2]
Spain	2017	blog colaborativo Arqueólogas e Historiadoras^[3]	Editathon Women and Archaeology, in Valencia^[2]
Spain	2012	Archaeology Department of the City of Barcelona^[4]	Wiki Workshop
Spain	2012	Classical Archaeology Institute of Catalonia	Meeting
Germany	2011	Wikipedia meets Antiquity / Wikipedia trifft Altertum^[5]		Wikipedia trifft Altertum
Italy	2013	Raccolte Extraeuropee del Castello Sforzesco di Milano Fondazione Passaré Museo civico archeologico di Varese Civico Museo Goffredo Bellini di Asola Museo Archeologico G. Rambotti di Desenzano Civico Museo archeologico di Castelleone	Project Archeowiki	https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progetto:Archeowiki http://www.archeowiki.it/
UK	2019	School of Archaeology - Univeristy of Oxford^[6]
Jordan	2019		Open Jordanian Heritage. Edit-a-tho
International	2010- (every year in September)		Wiki Loves Monuments am international photo contest about heritage

Contributing to Wikipedia on articles related to archaeology[edit]

WikiProjects are areas for focused collaboration among Wikipedians

WikiProjects on Wikipedia in different languages
Language	Link	Notes
Italian	https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progetto:Archeologia
English	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Archaeology
German	https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProjekt_Altertum	There is not wikiproject archaeology, but antiquities
French	https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Projet:Arch%C3%A9ologie

Adding images of archaeology to Wikimedia Commons[edit]

The major project related to archaeology is Wiki Loves Monuments which is a huge international photographic contest focusing on material heritage.

An overview of archaeology on Wikimedia Commons https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Archaeology
All categories related to archaeology https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Archaeology
Category for the museums https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Archaeological_museums

In 2008 a photo challenge was on Wikimedia Commons was about archaeology.

Spain
Mexico
Germany
Cambodia
Syria
Peru
Italy

Adding linked open data to Wikidata related to archaeology[edit]

Data can be related to monuments, sites, organisations, bibliography, documents, objects, images...

WikiProject Archaeology on Wikidata https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Archaeology
Cultural projects on Wikidata https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Category:Cultural_WikiProjects
Organisations https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Category:WikiProjects_for_organizations and GLAM https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Category:GLAM_WikiProjects
Cultural heritage https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Category:WikiProject_Cultural_heritage
Numismatics https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Category:WikiProject_Numismatics
Libraries https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Category:WikiProject_Libraries
Wiki Loves Monuments (with the entire catalogue of monuments – material heritage cultural and natural – of the world) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_WLM and https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Category:WikiProject_WLM
History https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Category:History_WikiProjects

Organisation[edit]

The group involves 100 members from 31 European countries and from Argentina, Canada, Japan and the Unites States. The network has been established as a COST Action^[7], a European programme which supports international networks aiming at designing research projects.

Liaison for the Wikimedia and OpenStreetMap community: Iolanda Pensa

References[edit]

External links[edit]

Website of SEADDA

[1] Shared Knowledge/Projects/Archaeoexpeditions

[:0-2] Wikipedia:Encuentros/Editatona Mujeres y Arqueología

[3] ttp://arqueologasehistoriadoras11feb.blogspot.com/

[4] Amical Wikimedia/July 2012

[5] Wikipedia trifft Altertum

[6] ttps://twitter.com/LisaLodwick/status/1085538716599402498

[7] Description of COST Actions https://www.cost.eu/cost-actions/what-are-cost-actions/.

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