01626nas a2200253   4500000000100000008004100001260004200042653001700084653001600101653001800117653001800135653001600153653002700169100001600196700001800212700001900230700001500249700001500264700002000279245009100299856004400390300001400434520092400448       2012                            d  bAmsterdam University PressaAmsterdam10asemantic web10aarchaeology10asemantic wiki10aDocumentation10aLinked Data10ainformation management1 aIsto Huvila1 aMingquan Zhou1 aIza Romanowska1 aZhongke Wu1 aPengfei Xu1 aPhilip Verhagen00aBeing Formal and Flexible: Semantic Wiki as an Archaeological e-Science Infrastructure  uhttp://dare.uva.nl/aup/nl/record/412958  a186–1973 aThe multiple challenges of representing archaeological information both using relational databases and semantic web technologies have been acknowledged in the literature. The present paper discusses findings and observations from an action research study on developing an integrated semantic digital data archive and collaboration platform for archaeological and archaeology related research using a semantic wiki based approach. The observations and findings from the project demonstrate that the discussed approach provides means to address some of the problems related to pre-coordinated formal representation of archaeological knowledge. At the same, the study stresses the importance of a full understanding of the implications of the both old and new systems of knowledge representation. Otherwise the new systems may introduce implicit infrastructural bias comparable to the ones addressed by the novel approach.