Swedigarch is under development, which involves system building, linking and system expansion, quality control, and system testing. The purpose is to showcase research potential and assist future users in generating and benefiting from archaeological information that is FAIR (findable, accessible, interoperable, reusable). This page introduces some of the resources and organisations that comprise Swedigarch.
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AGES
Archaeological Geodata/AGES: AGES (Archaeological Geodata from Excavations) is providing a FAIR service for geodata from archaeological excavations and is developed by module 3 of Swedigarch. This will facilitate many new research opportunities as data from excavations can be reused for analysis and linked to other Swedigarch resources, where AGES provides the archaeological context. Currently, data…
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Dynamic Collections
The recent development of 3D acquisition and advanced visualisation technology has contributed to the rapid emergence of a large number of 3D archives, the creation of which is often justified as a democratisation of data and knowledge production. Even though several 3D datasets are now available online, it is not always clear how these data,…
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National Historical Museums
Samlingar.shm.se (SIS) is the online collections service of the Swedish National Historical Museums (SHM), providing open access to metadata and digital resources from the institution’s collections. The service enables researchers, students, heritage professionals, and the public to search, explore, and reuse information about archaeological finds, cultural heritage objects, archival materials, and museum collections from across…
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SEAD
The Strategic Environmental Archaeology Database (SEAD) is a national research infrastructure for environmental archaeology data developed and managed at the Environmental Archaeology Lab (MAL) in collaboration with Humlab at Umeå University, Sweden. SEAD is part of an international network of research infrastructures for environmental archaeology and Quaternary paleoecology, enabling collaboration and data sharing among researchers…
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SOCH
SOCH – Swedish Open Cultural Heritage (“K-Samsök” in Swedish) is a national aggregator of heritage data developed and maintained by the National Heritage Board. It harvests metadata from databases of cultural heritage institutions in Sweden, indexes it, and publishes it in a format (Open API) allowing third parties to use the data to develop web…
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Swedigarch Inspirational Lectures Series
Swedigarch hosts a series of Inspirational Lectures on a variety of topics relating to our mission. This page consolidates the list of past and planned lectures, and provides links to their original announcements and to their recordings, if one was made available. If you have an idea for a good lecture for this series, please…