Arkeotek
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.
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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.
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| Publications |
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- The Arkeotek Journal. This journal proposes articles re-written according to the logicist principles. Recent articles:
- Marie-Claude BOILEAU, Wheel making in urban Syria in the third millennium: A technique for objects of value?, The Arkeotek Journal, volume 3, n°3, 2009
- Valentine ROUX, The potter's wheel in Middle Bronze II in
the Southern Levant: Technological study of
the Beth Shean ceramics, The Arkeotek Journal, volume 3, n°3, 2009
- The Référentiels collection, published by the Editions Maison des Sciences de l'Homme and the Editions Epistèmes. It has been created following the publication in December 2000 of the first SCD-formatted CD-ROM publication Carnelian in India , directed by Valentine Roux.
- NEW! Free access to sold out books in the domain of the archaeology of techniques.
Technology and Terminology of Knapped Stone. Marie-Louise Inizan, Michèle Reduron-Ballinger, Hélène Roche, Jacques Tixier Technologie de la pierre taillée. Marie-Louise Inizan, Michèle Reduron-Ballinger, Hélène Roche, Jacques Tixier
The Potter's Wheel. Craft Specialization and Technical Competence. Valentine Roux in collaboration with Daniela Corbetta. |
| Workshops |
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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. |
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
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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 |
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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 |
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Memberships, call for grants and financial supports from academic institutions.
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