9th May 2011, 11:46 AM
Wax Wrote:The trouble with digital data is that the storage medium changes at a frightening rate and the archive needs to be migrated to the next medium. To get back to who does archaeology belong to? It belongs to who ever paid for it :face-stir: Yes I know it should belong to all but that is not the reality.
i will still contest that it actually belongs to all of us. whilst we allow ourselves to be constrained by a reactionary orthodoxy which insists otherwise, archaeologists will be at the mercy of vested interests with no regard for progress or vision. i say let's be subversive, let's free archaeology