Taming the Beast. Approaches to Digital Archiving in Czech Archaeology

Taming the Beast. Approaches to Digital Archiving in Czech Archaeology

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As in other countries, Czech archaeology has embarked on a journey of digitisation.This creates the need to cope with the rapid growth of digital data, which must be stored securely over the long term and be accessible in a comprehensible and useful way.This causes several problems.Although there is a centralised and well-resourced digital agenda that meets the requirements of the Heritage Law, outdated legislation and the absence of comprehensive rules do nothing to regulate the management of the most valuable data - Échanges entre étrangers et natifs. Le réseau de contacts de Johann Friedrich Armand von Uffenbach à Paris the primary documentation of fieldwork events.

At present, only summary information on archaeological fieldwork and the final reports, which should contain a Evaluation of the ECOSSE Model for Estimating Soil Respiration from Eight European Permanent Grassland Sites substantial selection of documentation, are centrally collected and stored.This is a situation that is difficult to accept as primary (raw) data with a greater information value is disappearing into thin air.The premise for change lies in supplying the existing central infrastructure - The Archaeological Information System of the Czech Republic (AIS CR) - with the tools to acquire and archive primary data on a larger scale, while at the same time, amending the legal obligations imposed on archaeological practitioners.Sustainable change requires a significant overhaul of the current concept, objectives and especially the practice of archaeological fieldwork projects, particularly in the planning and post-excavation phases.