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Direct link to the data archive at DANS
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Introduction
In the period September 2004 to February 2006 a pilot project has being carried out in the Netherlands, called the e-Depot Nederlandse Archeologie (eDNA). This project was made possible by a subsidy granted by the foundation SURF, in the framework of the so-called DARE programme. With this project, the importance of durable archiving of digital data on archaeological research was brought to the attention of Dutch archaeologists. An attempt is made to make scientists more aware of the possibilities of a digital archive. All finds and analogue documentation are transferred to a provincial depot after completion of the research, also because this is legally required. Digital files, however, generally disappear somewhere in a drawer or cupboard. Left to themselves, these data are in danger of becoming unreadable through f.i. media degradation and aging of the software. Precisely these digital data could form a very valuable source for scientific research. Through an electronic depot (e-depot) the digital data can be kept readable and easily accessible. Re-use of primary archaeological data can thus be much improved in the Netherlands.
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Datasets
Since most of the datasets in our show-case contain information in Dutch, only a very few are made available to an international audience for the moment.
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