A Digital Public Archaeology?

Digital Public Archaeology is a very new label for contemporary practice, and as such has been subject to limited amount of theoretical scrutiny. The rapid pace change within Internet technologies significantly expanded potential this ‘digital’ form practice. can be used gather contributions ‘crowd-sourced’ archaeological content; share discuss news discoveries; foster online community identity, situated around the topic archaeology wider heritage issues, or elicit financial support. Expectations opportunities social, collaborative individual participation interaction with cultural have grown accordingly. Professional organisations are increasingly encouraged, if not required, disseminate their grey literature reports, publications, educational resources, data-sets, images other informatics through digital means, frequently mandatory outputs impact assessment public accountability. Real-time sharing, comment feedback information via mobile stand in contrast lengthy waits publication dissemination. This paper will explore on practice UK, issues associated development engagement sector.