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Open Knowledge and the Public Interest

2009-09-04T04:27:58Z

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Case Studies/Remixing Çatalhöyük

2009-05-06T22:15:17Z

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Remixing Çatalhöyük is an experiment in the open construction and dissemination of knowledge about the past.

This website has been developed using data and interpretations from recent archaeological research and excavations at the 9,000-year-old settlement mound of Çatalhöyük, in central Turkey. In addition to in-depth documentation and analyses, the Berkeley Archaeologists at Çatalhöyük (BACH) project has also created a spectrum of digital visual media designed to make their explorations accessible to a broad public audience, as well as to the scientific research field. The BACH team believes that the principles and techniques of unrestricted sharing, and the repurposing of research data as demonstrated by this project, can be applied to any research data set, whether about archaeology, history, anthropology, and the humanities, or about ecology, biology, or the physical and chemical sciences.

Remixing Çatalhöyük highlights and supports a multi-vocal approach to history, where the global, online community is invited to participate in the dialogue alongside the physical, local community. It has grown out of an interest we have had for many years in finding ways to incorporate our research into public education at all levels. We feel that the best way to keep our research data alive and in good condition is to foster public engagement through direct experience with the process of data interpretation, creating different contexts and meanings through digital remediation.

As part of this website, we have provided “starter themes” as guides to exploring and remixing the data. The thematic collections offered here are drawn from the research media archives of the Çatalhöyük Research project, which—for this grand experiment in open publishing—is made freely available under Creative Commons NonCommercial Attribution Licensing. This license specifies that others may reuse materials to create videos, websites, and other multimedia “remixes” for noncommercial purposes, so long as they credit the © Çatalhöyük Research Project.

Remixing Catalhoyuk Website
http://okapi.berkeley.edu/remixing/

Website Launch Announcement
http://okapi.wordpress.com/2007/10/05/remixing-catalhoyuk-launches/

Open Archaeology Prize
http://okapi.wordpress.com/2007/12/11/okapi-receives-open-archaeology-prize/

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2009-05-06T22:02:26Z

Okapi: Remixing Catalhoyuk Home

Remixing Catalhoyuk Home

Case Studies/Open Archaeology Collection

2009-05-06T21:45:52Z

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This collection contains course materials, student projects, and hundreds of other resources for teaching and learning archaeology. The materials were gathered during Fall 2008 by Open Knowledge and the Public Interest (OKAPI) in collaboration with the Department of Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley. OKAPI has published these materials under a Creative Commons Attribution License, encouraging anyone–from scholars to enthusiasts–to use, remix, and share. We also hope that this collection will inspire other scholars to openly share their research and teaching materials, and will serve as a template for future projects.

This project began as an attempt to digitize, organize, and share teaching materials for the ‘Introduction to Archaeology’ course at UC Berkeley. We started by gathering a variety of teaching materials faculty, but soon realized that much of the material was copyrighted or of unknown provenances and, therefore, difficult to freely publish. Beginning January 2008, after contacting our colleagues at OpenCourseware and the Center for Open and Sustainable Learning, we decided to follow their example and ‘Remove, Replace, and Get Permission’ for images in our collections. Two undergraduates (Samantha and Denise) ‘removed and replaced’ copyrighted images with images under an open-license (e.g. Creative Commons). They gathered open-licensed images from faculty research collections, the UC Berkeley Anthropology Library, and a wide range of open education and research sites, such as as Dspace, Aluka, Open Context, and MIT’s Open Courseware. All collected materials are organized by weekly lecture, given a description, and attributed to the rightful owner, under the specified license.

The Open Archaeology collection contains dozens of student projects, course materials (syllabi, assignments, etc.) and two semesters of lectures in a variety of formats, including audio/video podcasts and presentations. The lecture slides use open-licensed images from the collection and are provided in PDF and PowerPoint formats, allowing others to create their own lecture materials. The class lectures were recorded each week by our colleagues at Educational Technology Services. Each lectures is available as MP3 audio files and video podcasts. As a way to give back and contribute to the Open Education Movement, all new content is published under a Creative Commons Non-Commercial Attribution 3.0 license.

This project was funded by the US Department of Education’s Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education (Fipse Grant #P116B040739).

Open Archaeology Website:
http://okapi.berkeley.edu/openarchaeology

Project Team:
Elizabeth Ha
Denise Phelps
Samantha Emmanuel
Noah Wittman

Advisors:
Margaret Conkey
Ruth Tringham
Suzanne Calpestri
Michael Ashley

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2009-05-06T21:27:15Z

Okapi: Open Archaeology Collection

Open Archaeology Collection