As digital scholarship continues to transform research, so it changes the way we present and publish it. In archaeology, this has meant a transition from the traditional print monograph, representing the “definitive” interpretation of a site or landscape, to an online, open, and interactive model in which data collections have become central. Online representations of archaeological research must achieve transparency, exposing the connections between fieldwork and research methods, data objects, metadata, and derived conclusions. Accomplishing this often requires multiple platforms that can be burdensome to integrate and preserve. To address this, the Institute of Classical Archaeology and the Texas Advanced Computing Center have developed a “collection architecture” that integrates disparate and distributed cyberinfrastructure resources through a customized automated metadata platform, along with procedures for data presentation and preservation. The system supports “on-the-fly” data archiving and publication, as the collection is organized, shared, documented, analyzed, and distributed.

Archaeological data; database preservation; collection architecture

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Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Digital Preservation

School of Information and Library Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill