Development of a research data centre for archaeology and ancient studies (IANUS)

建立考古学和古代研究研究数据中心（IANUS）

• 批准号: 189693084
• 负责人: Professorin Dr. Friederike Fless
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Deutsches Archäologisches Institut (DAI)
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Research data and software (Scientific Library Services and Information Systems)
• 财政年份: 2011
• 资助国家: 德国
• 起止时间: 2010-12-31 至 2017-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/189693084?language=en
• 关键词: Development; research; data; centre; archaeology

Nothing has changed archaeology and the ancient studies in a similar way as the digital revolution which started to influence academic work a few decades ago. The new methods do not only offer new answers to old questions, but also contribute largely to a more comprehensive understanding and evaluation of ancient cultures. Nonetheless, the innovative and forward-looking possibilities also entail some challenges for which the traditional ancient studies and archaeologies are not prepared. Handling huge amounts of information in a source-critical, but still practical manner has to be invented almost from scratch. Technically and semantically heterogeneous digital research data usually document very unique contents that is not open to reproduction. At the same time, the perseverance of this data for future use is generally at stake. Therefore a data centre is necessary to permanently and reliably curate this data, to warrant for its physical conservation, to offer free access to the same, to improve subsequent re-use in the future and to facilitate a national and international exchange across borders, faculties, institutions and systems. Setting-up the required specialist infrastructural skeleton that is supported by the various disciplines in ancient studies is the object of the "IANUS research data centre archaeology & ancient studies project. During the first project phase an overall concept was created as the core milestone, a needs assessment was carried out and institutions with similar functions were visited. Based on the results obtained, the second phase will be dedicated to implement the necessary components in a functional manner. This will include developing a production system, defining workflows for the academic data curation and their application to real project data, concluding contracts with technical infrastructures for bit stream preservation, specifying a business model and developing a legal form, implementing a reference catalogue, continuing the exchange with the on-line portals and monitoring IT recommendations. By the end of the second project phase, IANUS shall be able to operate the professional long-term archiving of data such that owners of data can transfer these for archiving purposes and interested parties can research and download the same via the website and other portals.

没有什么能像几十年前开始影响学术工作的数字革命那样改变考古学和古代研究。新方法不仅为老问题提供了新的答案，而且在很大程度上有助于更全面地了解和评价古代文化。然而，创新和前瞻性的可能性也带来了一些传统的古代研究和考古学没有准备好的挑战。以一种对源代码至关重要但仍然实用的方式处理大量信息几乎必须从头开始。技术和语义异构的数字研究数据通常记录非常独特的内容，不开放复制。与此同时，这一数据的持久性以供未来使用通常是岌岌可危的。因此，数据中心必须永久和可靠地管理这些数据，保证其物理保存，提供免费访问，改善未来的后续再利用，并促进跨国界，院系，机构和系统的国家和国际交流。建立由古代研究各个学科支持的所需专业基础设施骨架是“IANUS研究数据中心考古学与古代研究项目”的目标。在项目第一阶段，提出了一个总体概念，作为核心里程碑，进行了需求评估，并访问了具有类似职能的机构。根据取得的结果，第二阶段将致力于以实用的方式实施必要的组成部分。这将包括开发一个生产系统，确定学术数据管理的工作流程及其对真实的项目数据的应用，与比特流保存的技术基础设施签订合同，具体说明商业模式和制定法律的形式，实施参考目录，继续与在线门户网站交流，监测信息技术建议。到第二个项目阶段结束时，IANUS将能够对数据进行专业的长期存档，以便数据所有者可以为存档目的转移这些数据，感兴趣的各方可以通过网站和其他门户网站进行研究和下载。