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Archaeology, e-publication and the Semantic Web

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Julian D. Richards*
Affiliation:
*Department of Archaeology, King's Manor, University of York, UK (Email: jdr1@york.ac.uk).

Extract

In 1996 ‘Internet Archaeology’, the first peer-reviewed e-journal for Archaeology, published its first edition (Heyworth et al. 1997). Later the same year the Archaeology Data Service, the first digital archive for archaeology, was established (Richards 1997). Ten years on, this paper examines the rapid changes which have taken place in electronic publication and looks forward to the next ten years. It examines the pressures on traditional journal publication, and discusses the potential impact on Archaeology of the next Internet revolution, the Semantic Web.

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Debate
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 2006

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