IGSN DataCite Archaeology and Cultural Heritage Community of Practice

About the Community of Practice

The Community of Practice was formed in March 2022. It is a group of archaeologists with backgrounds in archaeometry, landscape archaeology, and data management from prehistoric to modern eras, as well as cultural heritage researchers. The group meets monthly to discuss physical sample management, data collection and publication, and to identify best practices for the identification and description of archaeology and cultural heritage artefacts on the internet.

Goals:

• Promote the use of PIDs for material samples.

• Articulate sample use cases and workflows within disciplines.

• Describe samples in terms of minimum and extended metadata profiles

Challenges:

• Diverse use cases and practices

• Describing artefacts, assemblages, and locations

• Record provenance and access

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Presentations

Crook, P. (2022, December). Archeology Samples CoP. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7432484

ARDC Information Management for Physical Samples Community of Practice

This community is for and supports those managing collections of research samples or specimens. https://sites.google.com/ardc.edu.au/samples-cop/home

The IGSN Archaeology Community of Practice has published its Archaeological Sample Profile. It aims to standardise the description of archaeological and cultural heritage samples, taking into account disciplinary-specific use cases and workflows.

Version 1.0 is the first published version of the Archaeological Sample Metadata Profile. It has been released alongside Version 1.0 of the IGSN Archaeology CoP Crosswalk Recommendation that translates the Metadata Profile into DataCite Metadata Schema V4.6 for the purposes of registering IGSN IDs for archaeological samples.

• Edmunds, R., Klump, J., Bartholdy, B. P., Crook, P., Corns, A., Hsu, Y.-K., et al. (2025). Archaeological Sample Metadata Profile. IGSN e.V. Retrieved from https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17254974

• Edmunds, R., Klump, J., Bartholdy, B. P., Crook, P., Corns, A., Hsu, Y.-K., et al. (2025). IGSN–DataCite Archaeology CoP Crosswalk Recommendation. IGSN e.V. Retrieved from https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17446557