Computer Applications and quantitative methods in Archaeology
Budget
€10 — €0
EP Access
0
accredited persons
Staff
3
0.75 FTE
EU Grants
None
Mission & Goals
Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology (CAA) is an organisation bringing together archaeologists, mathematicians, and computer scientists. Its mission is to encourage and facilitate dialogue between these disciplines, to provide an overview of the present state of the discipline, and to stimulate discussion to progress the field.
EU Legislative Interests
The CAA is invested in ensuring free access to cultural heritage data while maintaining privacy, copyright and security issues. For members of the CAA it is thereby of high relevance that common data structures are adhered to to ensure accessibility and usability. Important questions to answer thereby include among others: access regulation, maintenance, cost, provenance and retrievability - in particular considering size, distribution and type of data. To this end, the CAA is interested in influencing and contributing to the common European data space for cultural heritage (CEDCHE, Europeana) - related to policy areas Culture, Information Society. Also related to the Data Act (awaiting approval). In addition, the CAA has a strong focus on education and teaching - in particular for developing joint curriculums between archaeologists and computer scientists. In dedicated working groups, key material has been developed and discussed. This relates to the European strategy for universities, respectively to the activities of the CULT (culture and education) committee.
Communication Activities
- yearly workshops and conferences on national and international level covering all topics related to digital humanities and cultural heritage (see e.g. https://ariadne-infrastructure.eu/caa-2021-roundtable-well-attended/) - special interest working groups on various topics related to digital humanities and cultural heritage - webcasts on the same topics - newsletters and blog entries on the same topics - a dedicated Journal of the CAA (on the same topics)
Interests Represented
Promotes their own interests or the collective interests of their members
Member Of
- European Association of Archaeologists (https://www.e-a-a.org/) - Deutscher Archäologen-Verband (https://www.darv.de/) - Gesellschaft für Informatik (https://gi.de/)
Organisation Members
- various archaeologists, universities and cultural heritage institutions, including e.g. Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, University of Cologne, Redaktion Rundbrief Grabungstechnik, Deutsches Bergbaumuseum etc.
Additional Information
As a not-for-profit organisation, all incurring costs such as conference organisation etc. are directly covered by participation fees. All persons involved are voluntary workers at no cost.
Commissioner Meetings
No recorded meetings with EU commissioners.