Arkeotek: 4 years of existence

Created in 2003, ARKEOTEK is a non profit European association bringing together specialists in the archaeology of techniques and technology. Arkeotek is engaged in innovative publication projects designed to improve the dissemination of knowledge throughout the community.

Arkeotek is a non-profit European association bringing together specialists in the archaeology of techniques and technology. Arkeotek is engaged in innovative publication projects designed to improve the dissemination of knowledge throughout the community.

Faced with the information crisis of modern times, Arkeotek proposes new writing practices inspired by the logicist program . Those practices are used in Arkeotek through a new electronic format, known as SCD format (Scientific Constructs and Data).

• Arkeotek publishes, in conjunction with the Editions de la Maison des Sciences de l'Homme and the Editions Epistèmes, The Arkeotek Journal, the first scientific journal in the SCD format allowing a rapid lecture of scientific constructs and the exhaustive publication of research data.

• Arkeotek, through its liaison with Valentine Roux and the Editions de la Maison des sciences de l'homme and the Editions Epistèmes, has created an initial collection of SCD-formatted monographs, known as the Référentiels collection.

Arkeotek provides methodological, financial or technical support, to authors or editors wishing to develop SCD-formatted publications.

With this support, Arkeotek aims to establish a network of authors and editors wishing to work together for the construct of thematic logicist corpuses. Arkeotek thus hopes to foster new communication and cooperative practices among researchers.

Publications

Test IMG This is under the scientific direction of Valentine Roux that the first SCD-formatted CD-ROM publication Carnelian in India , as conceived by Valentine Roux and Philippe Blasco, was published in December 2000. This was followed, in 2002, by a project of SCD-formatted monographs known as the Référentiels collection, published by the Editions Maison des Sciences de l'Homme and the Editions Epistèmes.

Agnès Gelbert (2003) : Ceramic traditions and technical borrowings in the Senegal Valley.
Marie-Claude Boileau (2005) : Pottery production and distribution in third millenium Northeast Syria.
Bérénice Bellina (2007) : Cultural exchange between India and Southeast Asia. Production and distribution of hard stone ornaments (IVc. BC-VIc. AD).

The same publishers have launched in 2007 an online journal, The Arkeotek Journal. This journal proposes articles re-written according to the logicist principles as well as an exhaustive publication of the database.

NEW ARTICLES:

Jehanne FÉBLOT-AUGUSTINS, Raw materials and Early Mediterranean Neolithic expansion process in the upper Rhône basin: the case of the Gardon cave (Ambérieu-en-bugey, Ain, France), The Arkeotek Journal, 2007, n°3.

Marian VANHAEREN, Francesco d'ERRICO, Social inequality in the Upper Paleolithic: personal ornaments from Saint-Germain-la-Rivière (Gironde, France), The Arkeotek Journal, 2007, n°4.

Workshops

Within the domain of archaeotechnology, workshops are organized to precise the articles that should be re-written according the logicist principles in order to develop logicist corpus.

First workshops

Young researchers !

Doctorates, post-doc, come and publish and receive a logicist training with Arkeotek.
By publishing in the Arkeotek Journal or in the collection Référentiels, you receive a training in the logicist analysis, real tool for editing scientific constructs...

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The Référentiels collection

NEW : The project ARKEOTEK has been selected by the ANR within the framework of the call for funds "Corpus et Outils pour le Recherche" (2007). This project aims at constituting "logicist corpus" in the domain of the archaeology of techniques, that is corpus of documents composed of data and rules of interpretation, the latter being understood as operations of inferences leading to conclusions or interpretative hypotheses. These corpus will have a double function: a function of decision for guiding the researchers in scientific interpretations, and a documentary function for organizing and sharing the data mobilized for founding the proposed interpretations. These corpus will therefore contribute directly to the cumulative process of knowledge as well as to the dynamic of research.

The project DYNAMO (call by the "Réseau National en Technologies Logicielles 2007") Arkeotek participates to as a PI has been also recently accepted. This project aims at designing and evaluating two software tools: a tool for semi-automatic ontology engineering and maintenance from text; a tool for semantic indexing and searching in text collections that uses the ontologies built from these collections. These tools will be experimented in the scope of gathering and retreiving information in SCD documents.

Two main partners

The Editions Epistèmes bring their know-how in electronic publications. Since 1997, through their founder Philippe Blasco, they work on defining hybrid publications, book and cdrom, and designing the SCD format (Scientific Construct and Data).

The Editions de la Maison des sciences de l'homme have brought their support to these editorial innovations by publishing in 2002 a first book-cdrom, then by creating the Référentiels collection, within the framework of a joint venture with the Editions Epistèmes.

The two publishers have launched together the online journal The Arkeotek Journal.

Collaboration with the NICT

Collaboration with New Information and Communication Technologies through knowledge engineering researchers from IRIT, Equipe IC3 run by N. Aussenac.

Fundings

Memberships, call for grants and financial supports from academic institutions.