Making Data Free, Immediate, and Having Equitable Access: How Federal and State Agencies Work to Meet OSTP Governance through Responsible Curation and Preservation

Summary

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

With the call from the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) to make federally-funded research openly and immediately available, many archaeologists, archivists, and CRM professionals in the U.S. are left wondering how this affects their research and ability to preserve and protect their data. Most affected by this governance are state and federal agencies that are tasked with improving their current preservation and access policies by next year. Looking at three different agencies and their digital collections, this poster details varied workflows undertaken to make collections more accessible. Whether for public outreach or organizational purposes, depositing in a responsible repository such as tDAR (the Digital Archaeological Record), these agencies are able to fulfill this call for accessibility, protection of sensitive information, and preservation. Included in the poster is a summary of “best practices” for agencies to follow to ensure that this new directive is implemented and make their archaeological data available and responsibly curated.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Presentations on Digital Antiquity and tDAR   •
• SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts   •
• Society for American Archaeology 88th Annual Meeting, Portland, OR (2023)

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Contact(s): Rachel Fernandez

Record Identifiers

Abstract Id(s): 37539.0

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