Antonella D'Ascoli

‘Journal of Intercultural and Interdisciplinary Archaeology’ (JIIA) online since 10 October 2003 (static site in HTML 4.01; now called Version 01), was launched as an online journal specialised in archaeology, with an intercultural and interdisciplinary vocation. It evolved into the Archaeological Disciplinary Repository aligned with the Open Access Archiving Protocol (OAI-PMH), a resource repository from the viewpoint of open knowledge, open content, and digital libraries.
Antonella D'Ascoli is Owner and Managing Director of this complex infrastructure.
At the beginning of 2005 the value-added presentation portal, which was developed through an open source Content Management System, was enhanced with the ‘JIIA MyOpia Repository’, the archive of the Journal, achieved with the open source Myopia software, that was developed by the University College London (UCL) for the collection of research of that institution (in the current structure of JIIA that implementation was then called Version 02).
After 4 April 2006, the JIIA MyOpia Repository (as a result of various circumstances) was replaced by the higher performing ‘JIIA Eprints Repository’: an enormous undertaking, faced alone, the crossing of a tempestuous sea, having as the sole vision the promotion of open access to research in the field of archaeology.
The mission was accomplished with the creation of a digital library for archaeological research, an open archive linked to the Journal, one of the few such implementations in this field internationally.
'JIIA Eprints Repository' is an Archaeological Disciplinary Repository aligned with Open Access Initiative Protocol (OAI-PMH) and linked to 'Journal of Intercultural and Interdisciplinary Archaeology' (jiia.it/jiia.eu) online since 10 october 2003.
The Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting, OAI-PMH, is a low-barrier mechanism for repository interoperability. Data Providers are repositories that expose structured metadata via OAI-PMH. Service Providers then make OAI-PMH service requests to harvest that metadata. OAI-PMH is a set of six verbs or services that are invoked within HTTP.
In this architecture 'JIIA Eprints Repository' is a Data Provider.
JIIA 'Journal of Intercultural and Interdisciplinary Archaeology' è una testata telematica registrata presso il Tribunale di Frosinone con il n.303/2003; ha ISSN 1824-1670; è associata all'USPI (Unione Stampa Periodica Italiana) dal 2003.
JIIA Eprints Repository, è un Archaeological Disciplinary Repository, OAI-PMH compliant, collegato al 'Journal of Intercultural and Interdisciplinary Archaeology'.

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