Anthony Corns of the Discovery Program on The Data Volume Problem

Anthony Corns of the Discovery Program, speaking at the Royal Irish Academy (RIA), he advocates digtial archiving, moving from the pilot Share It program - and is involved now in the ArcLand european international project. ArcLand is concerned with creating a Spatial Data Infrastructure SDI - which is as far as he is concerned the 'glue' that holds it all together.

Issues arise such as:
building shared resources,

allowing for the reuse of archaeology data,

reuse of technology /policy developed in other domains using things like Creative Commons

They decided to build a trusted digital repository and spatial server - using D Space rather than Fedora.

2012 - 2014

ArcLand Heritage Data Knowledge they are getting the data migrated into archive and web services established

Construct a Geo-portal

Standards are critical

Access via Europeana?

How to we access it all? Rather than just accessing it - we have to give it back in a structured way.

This reinforces everything that I have previously being saying on this blog with regard to structuring the knowledge as it is created, rather than trying to retrofit in a situation where there are few resources.