In this episode, Sarah Carr-Locke, IPinCH Fellow and PhD Candidate in the Department of Archaeology at Simon Fraser University, leads a discussion on open access data and digital cultural heritage with Eric Kansa, Technology Director at the Alexandria Archive Institute and editor of OpenContext.org, and Susan Rowley, Curator at UBC’s Museum of Anthropology and collaborator on the Reciprocal Research Network.

Susan and Eric are co-chairs of the IPinCH Working Group on Digital Information Systems and Cultural Heritage.

Eric, Susan and Sarah on Google Hangouts during the recording of the podcast.

Part One introduces Open Context, an online open access database for archaeological data sharing, and the Reciprocal Research Network, an online tool for facilitating reciprocal and collaborative cultural heritage research from the Northwest Coast of British Columbia (45:00) .

Part Two explores the re-use and remix of data, creative commons licensing, and intellectual property and copyright issues related to open data. Susan, Eric and Sarah also discuss culturally sensitive issues in the context of data collection, analysis and preservation (21:37). 

Music courtesy of Mique'l and Mike Dangeli of the Git Hayetsk Dancers. 

Podcast edited by Daniel Hawkins.