Capacity Building at National Level: Organisational and Technical Issues of Archaeological Data Infrastructure in The Czech Republic

The Czech archaeological data infrastructure has changed radically in the last decade and is gradually catching up with advanced data repositories providing similar services abroad. The originally disparate environment based on intuitive approaches has been consolidated under the unified research infrastructure Archaeological Information System of the Czech Republic (AIS CR). Today, both individual datasets and related services are integrated in one place, but most importantly, the team responsible for managing and developing the infrastructure in a sustainable manner is involved. The paper will focus on several aspects of the whole process of building and managing the AIS CR: organisational, i.e. what conditions had to be created in order for the process to be successfully launched and maintained; technical, i.e. how the operation and development of the server and software environments is ensured and what problems need to be solved in this area in the long term; impact, i.e. what effect the existence of the AIS CR has on the archaeological domain in the Czech Republic and where there are still gaps that need to be filled. The aim of the paper is mainly to highlight the key decisions and prerequisites leading to a sustainable and actively used infrastructure, but also to point out the dead-ends we have encountered in building AIS CR. The whole topic will be placed in the broader context of the implementation of the EOSC initiative in the Czech Republic, allowing for an interdisciplinary comparison of the position of Czech archaeology in terms of FAIR data management. It will also give an outlook on where the development of AIS CR will go in the coming years and what we see as possibilities in terms of moving the state of the art. Abstract taken from the EAA 2024 Abstract Book: 30th EAA Annual Meeting (Rome, Italy 2024) - Abstract Book Names, titles and affiliations are reproduced as submitted by the session organisers and/or authors. Language and wording of titles and abstracts were not revised. Technical editing: Sára Tylšová, Magda Karabáš (EAA) Design and layout: Sára Tylšová, Magda Karabáš (EAA) Design - cover: Symposia srl Design - logo: Caterina Amendola European Association of Archaeologists Rome, August 2024 © European Association of Archaeologists, 2024 ISBN 978-80-88441-08-3 30th EAA Annual Meeting (Rome, 2024) https://www.e-a-a.org/EAA2024/scientificprogramme