Argentinian Digital Archaeological Data Going Fair. Opportunities, Strengths And Challenges For The Reuse Of Information Available In Open Access

IZETA, ANDRÉS D.; CATTANEO ROXANA

Budapest

Congreso; 28th Annual Meeting European Association of Archaeologists; 2022

EAA

Argentina’s national archaeological data is public information. However, its access is unequal, as much information remains in analogue format. Considering this context, since 2010 we have been working on the digitization of various types of archaeological information to allow a more democratic access to the data, such as published material to raw data. In this context, the FAIR, TRUST and CARE principles are of vital importance as a framework for an ethical and democratic management of information. The Suquía Repository and the IDACORDIG platform, dedicated tothe custody of digital information of archaeological origin, as the oldest repository dedicated to archaeological data, have incorporated several tools that allow the use and re-use of the information deposited there. The principal products of the repository are the database of archaeological sites of the Province of Córdoba (BADACOR) and a virtual library that compiles over 6000 objects (published and grey literature) generated from the 1880s to the present (BIBARQARG). BADACOR is the most comprehensive curated tool, since it has standardized its metadata and allows linking the information of each archaeological site to the publications and databases available in the Repository and with IDACORDIG. The BIBARQARG database provides not only links and full text files in open access format but also provides a set of metadata that allows better information retrieval. The latter has been carried out as an action by the Argentine Digital Archeology Network. In short, standardizing data and metadata, adding a greater number ofdescriptors to each digital object, attaching a set of para-data in each case, and monitoring the metrics of visits and use of the information becomes an important asset to guarantee a FAIR use of archaeological data on a national scale.