Digital Curation In The Age of Covid: Using the FAIR Principles to Foster Preservation, Access, and Reuse

Summary

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Collections Management in the Age of COVID-19" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology.

Cultural heritage managers continually face deadlines and milestones that digital resources help to meet them. Yet, many materials related to past assessments, surveys, or excavations are in hard-copy form only. They are difficult to access when SHPO offices, archives, or other hard-copy repositories are closed. In the current pandemic, this dilemma has become even plainer. What do we do when these resources are not available online and are otherwise inaccessible? The Center for Digital Antiquity advocates for a change in how we do business. Through widespread adoption and implementation of the FAIR principals, strides in online access to digital materials are the first step to help to reduce access problems. Implementing these principles should be a fundamental part of cultural heritage management workflows. Our industry should advocate for better accessibility to digital resources not just for our use, but for communities that we extract data from to have access to.

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• Collections Management in the Age of COVID-19   •
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