Archaeology in the Digital Age: From Paper to Databases
This work targets archaeologists and researchers by improving access to archival documents, but it appears incremental as it builds on existing digitization efforts.
The paper addresses the challenge of making archaeological archives more accessible by moving beyond simple digitization to formalizing and structuring information with user-friendly interfaces, though it does not report specific quantitative results.
Research units in archaeology often manage large and precious archives containing various documents, including reports on fieldwork, scholarly studies and reference books. These archives are of course invaluable, recording decades of work, but are generally hard to consult and access. In this context, digitizing full text documents is not enough: information must be formalized, structured and easy to access thanks to friendly user interfaces.