Barriers to the Production of Metadata for Archaeological Datasets
Author(s): Claire Tsang
This paper reviews what stops the production of high-quality metadata for archaeological archives, reducing the intellectual accessibility of data. It discusses difficulties resourcing metadata production, the quality of existing data standards which metadata is produced from, templates for deposition, and lack of guidance of what should be included to enrich metadata. It puts forward principles for the improvement of metadata for fieldwork datasets and applies that to an exemplar metadata template
- Report Number:
- 245/2020
- Series:
- Research Report
- Pages:
- 43
- Keywords:
- Digital Data Metadata Archaeological Archives Data Standards
