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Free and Open Source Software in Archaeology
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7423951 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Benjamin Ducke (0000-0002-0560-4749, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 44 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 571-579 |
| Publication date | 2012-12-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | World Archaeology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0043-8243 • E-ISSN: 1470-1375 |
| Publisher | Routledge (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/00438243.2012.743259 |
| OpenAlex | W2053625916 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 10 |
| References cited | 19 |
Archaeological research is increasingly based on computational methods and software. This development has profound economical and epistemological implications that must be critically reviewed and understood with respect to financial barriers to reproducible research and the 'black box' effect that proprietary software introduces into archaeological research. Free and open source software (FOSS) offers an alternative model of software development that is better aligned with both the economics of project-based research and the demands of good scientific practice. FOSS is not a new concept but reflects the original idea of software as part of the public research domain – an idea that is concordant with the nature of the internet and globally connected research. Keywords: Archaeologyopen source softwarescienceknowledgereproducible research
Archaeology · Data science · Domain (mathematical analysis · Open source software · Programming language · Public domain · Software development · Software engineering · The Internet · World Wide Web · Computer Science · Data Analysis with R · History · Image Processing and 3D Reconstruction · Research Data Management Practices · Software
Extrinsic site defensibility and landscape-based archaeological inference
Integrating Older Survey Data into Modern Research Paradigms
Creating a Software Methodology to Analyze and Preserve Archaeological Legacy Data
The Social Web and Archaeology’s Restructuring
Open Archaeology, Open Source? Collaborative practices in an emerging community of archaeological software engineers
Paradigm or Practice? Situating GIS in Contemporary Archaeological Method and Theory
Identifying Landscape Modification using Open Data and Tools
Spatial patterning of Middle Palaeolithic lithic assemblages at the Abri du Maras, Southeast France
Coins as proxy for urban development
Reproducibility in the Social Sciences
| Citations per year | 0.83 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2014 - 2026 (13) |
| Highly cited | No |