CAA Joined-Up Data session

[Holly Wright]

With apologies for cross-posting.

 

Greetings CAA Semantic-SIG,

 

This is an invitation to submit papers to the session 'Joined-Up Data: What are the new research questions?' which will be held within the 'Data Analysis, Modelling, Management, Integration and Visualisation' theme, at the Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology (CAA) conference in Southampton (26-30 March 2012). This session is meant to provide a more focussed approach than the general Semantic Web sessions held in previous years:

The Semantic Web and the use of ontologies is a complex topic, with technologies that are still evolving. After three years of general Semantic Web sessions however, and now that practical work is well underway, perhaps it is time to step back from the technology somewhat and shift the focus towards the new archaeological research questions we had planned to ask in the first place, once we were able to make our data interoperable.

 

What are we able to do now, that we could not do before? What new research questions can we expect to be able to answer? Can we now re-formulate previous questions and expect to get more complex answers? How do we illustrate the new research capabilities and interface with the data and present answers? How do we communicate the potential to non-specialist archaeologists? How do we then incorporate their feedback?

 

This session invites papers presenting exemplars of the Semantic Web in use, and in particular papers demonstrating ways of answering new questions archaeologists can now ask of their data when it is ‘joined-up’. This could include papers about practical applications, or examples of projects that communicate with archaeologists about what ‘semantic’ data can do. It is hoped that by sharing these projects with each other, we can then do a better job of communicating to non-specialist researchers and funders of the usefulness of linking data, and using the shared data of others. This in turn will allow us to create better tools for sharing, linking, archiving and answering the research questions that our fellow archaeologists really want answering.

 

The full list of proposed sessions can be found at http://www.southampton.ac.uk/caa2012/submissions/CAA2012_proposed_sessions.pdf.

 

The deadline for abstracts is 30 November. Details can be found at http://www.southampton.ac.uk/caa2012/submissions/index.html.

 

All best wishes,

 

Holly Wright (University of York)

Keith May (English Heritage)

 

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Holly Wright

Department of Archaeology

University of York

The King's Manor

York

YO1 7EP

 

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