Presentation given at the 2008 joint meeting of the Executive Committee and International Committee of ICAZ (the International Council for Archaeozoology).

1. An Open Context for Zooarchaeology Publishing Research Data on the Web Unless otherwise indicated, this work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License <http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/> Sarah Whitcher Kansa [email_address]

4. Records in Open Context Faceted browsing allows easy exploration of diverse content

5. Records in Open Context

6. Media Record

7. Ownership in Open Context Copyright ownership and Creative Commons license information, including metadata Internet-wide standard metadata, links ownership & permissions

8. Ownership in Open Context Citation information with stable URL direct to the item being cited.

9. Adding Value to Content Users can highlight an item or groups of items, add their own observations and created a permanent URL for that data set

10. Facilitating Collaboration and Discussion An individual tags a set “weaving tools” and comments on them

11. Facilitating Collaboration and Discussion Someone else refers to that tagged set from a blog= “ping back” An individual tags a set “weaving tools” and comments on them

12. Penelope 3

13. If you build it, will they come?

14. Special Thanks University of Chicago: OCHRE Project Doris and Donald Fisher László Bartosiewicz and ICAZ Presidio Archaeology Lab Science Commons Internet Archive (media repository services) Questions? Contact skansa@alexandriaarchive.org