Le rapport de fouille, une matière première difficile à extraire

• Main Author: Le réseau Archéo-IdF
• Format: Article
• Language: fra
• Published: Editions de la Maison des Sciences de l'Homme 2012-12-01
• Series: Les Nouvelles de l’Archéologie
• Subjects: access to administrativedocuments; archaeological documentation; digital document; excavation report; information dissemination; intellectual property
• Online Access: http://journals.openedition.org/nda/1913
• ISSN: 0242-7702; 2425-1941

The Archéo-IDF network (Ile-de-France Archaeology) which gets together documentalists, librarians and archivists, has organized a seminar about excavation reports on the 1st April 2010 at the French National Library. At that time, a survey has been carried out on users and brought out the difficulties of access to those reports. Until the law of 1978, which stated that excavation report in all its forms was to be considered as “administrative data”, it had been random access. Today it’s necessary to go beyond that administrative side and fully recognize its scientific value as well as setting up its spreading among the archaeological community. Changes are needed all the more because the making of this document has changed a lot since the last twenty years. Indeed, those data, produced with great means and rules, are for most of them out of reach of the scientific community. In such a context it’s time for the public power to update the methods and even product some new rules adapted to the actual stakes of open data.