THE ARKEOTEK PROJECT

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 (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 a number of comparable publishers, has created an initial collection of SCD-formatted monographs, known as the Collection Référentiels.

Arkeotek will provide methodological support, financial or technical, 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 around a communal setting for the construction of thematic knowledge bases. Arkeotek thus hopes to foster new communication and cooperative practices among researchers.