An overview of the online archaeological data services that will be available through ARIADNE. These include several services provided by ADS, University of York, FASTI Online and ARACHNE.

1. ARIADNE
is
funded
by
the
European
Commission's
Seventh
Framework
Programme
Good
Data
Management
and
Online
Access
Professor
Julian
Richards
Archaeology
Data
Service,
University
of
York,
UK

2. ARIADNE
online
services
• Online
access:
– Archaeology
Data
Service,
UK
– FasL
Online,
Italy
– ARACHNE,
DAI,
Germany
• Workshops:
– EAA
Pilzen,
Sept
2013
– CAA
Paris,
April
2014
– EAA
Istanbul,
Sept
2014
• Data
Management:
Guides
to
Good
PracLce

3. Archaeology
Data
Service

4. Archaeology
Data
Service,
UK
• 1.3
million
metadata
records
cataloguing
the
Archaeology
of
the
BriLsh
Isles
• 28,000+
archaeological
unpublished
fieldwork
reports
(the
“grey
literature”)
• 5000+
journal
arLcles,
and
online
monographs
• 700+
research
archives
• Text,
spreadsheets,
databases,
GIS,
laser-­‐
scanning,
CAD,
geophysics,
3D
models

5. hdp://

11. hdp://

12. ADS
usage
• 1st
February
2013
-­‐
31st
July
2014:
393,964
unique
visitors
including
234,607
downloads
and
3,030,646
page
views.
• 22nd-­‐
25th
ARIADNE
workshop,
CAA,
Paris:
– The
average
number
of
visits
to
the
ADS
website
calculated
across
the
three
weekends
in
April
prior
to
the
conference
is
2125
– the
weekend
following
the
conference
the
number
of
visits
to
the
ADS
website
increased
by
over
25%
to
2755

13. ADS
usage
ARIADNE
workshop,
Computer
ApplicaLons
in
Archaeology
Conference,
Paris,
April
2014

14. ADS
visitors
67%
10%
2%
2%
2%
2%
1%
1%
1%
1%
11%
United
Kingdom
United
States
Italy
Australia
Germany
Canada
Spain
France
Ireland
Netherlands
Others

15. ADS
users

16. FasL
Online

17. AIAC:
FasL
Online
• Online
database
of
archaeological
excavaLons
undertaken
across
the
Classical
World
since
2000
• 12,000+
excavaLon
reports
and
site
summaries
from
across
the
Mediterranean.

22. FasL
Online
usage
• Average
number
of
users
per
month:
– 2013:
1,343
– 2014:
>1,500

23. FasL
online
users
First
language
of
FasL
users
Europe
is
the
source
of
84%
of
FasL
users
with
a
further
10%
coming
from
North
America.

24. ARACHNE

25. DAI:
ARACHNE
• ARACHNE:
Object
database
of
more
than
one
million
images
of
finds,
architecture
and
excavaLons
• ZENON:
the
basic
online
card
index
of
all
books
available
in
DAI
libraries
worldwide
and
access
to
digital
monographs
and
journals.

31. ARACHNE
usage
1
Feb
2013
–
31
July
2014:
• 387,390
sessions
by
198,876
users
• Average
number
of
pages
per
session
was
7.66
• Average
session
duraLon
was
6
minutes
and
5
seconds.
• 3%
of
site
users
(76,423)
have
visited
the
ARACHNE
website
more
than
15
Lmes.
• 50%
Repeat
visitors
and
50%
new
visitors

32. ARACHNE
usage
First
language
of
ARACHNE
users:
Europe
accounts
for
around
89%
of
users
with
a
further
6%
from
North
America.

33. Data
Management

34. Guides
to
Good
PracLce

35. Guides
to
Good
PracLce

36. Acknowledgments
ARIADNE
is
a
project
funded
by
the
European
Commission
under
the
Community’s
Seventh
Framework
Programme,
contract
no.
FP7-­‐INFRASTRUCTURES-­‐2012-­‐1-­‐313193.
The
views
and
opinions
expressed
in
this
presentaLon
are
the
sole
responsibility
of
the
authors
and
do
not
necessarily
reflect
the
views
of
the
European
Commission.