These are collection of digital records from maritime archaeological work including photographs, maps and plans, field notebooks, post-excavation finds analysis and other analytical records.

Group:  Museum Data

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Imminence of Action

Action is recommended within 12 months, detailed assessment is now a priority

Significance of Loss

The loss of tools, data or services within this group would impact on people and sectors around the world.

Effort to Preserve

It would require a major effort to prevent losses in this group, such as the development of new preservation tools or techniques.

Examples

Records of excavations in marine environments which may fall outside the jurisdiction of terrestrial heritage services.

‘Practically Extinct’ in the Presence of Aggravating Conditions

Poor documentation; lack of preservation mandate; dependence on proprietary and non-standard data types

‘Endangered’ in the Presence of Good Practice

Preservation planning from the outset; subject specialist repository; user community

2019 Review

This is a new entry taken from the open submission process in 2019.  It is grouped with Museum data sets as archaeological archives typically make their way to museums, but it is also closely aligned to research data.

Additional Jury Comments

There are trusted custodians of this data such as ADS, DANS or the British Museum as well as in oceanographic research agencies, but perhaps hard to integrate good practice at an international scale. The real challenge therefore is in identifying and sustaining a custodian as other bodies have experience with this data. The proliferation of innovative data recording technologies also implies likely problems of format dependence and documentation.