D3.2 Interim report on policies and strategies

The overall objective of ARIADNEplus is to serve archaeological researchers and data management communities byimprovingdata sharing and the (re)use of data resources, which are dispersed through Europe and often difficult to discover and access as different silos (institutional, national or disciplinary) still exist. This reportdescribes the activities carried out by the different partners during the first twoand a half years of the ARIADNEplus project, as well as the results achieved through the work package. These activities include: defining and disseminating of guides toensure that archaeological data will be FAIR and available in the long-term; the implementation of a portfolio of toolsto support users such as theARIADNEplus DMP Researcher Template for Archaeological Datasets with a Domain Data Protocol based on the Science Europe core requirements for Research Data Management;sharing experiences from partners with already certified repositories withpartners willing to set up an archaeological data repository and providing guidelines and support on repository creation and management; the requirements for repository certification; the application of the FAIR principles to archaeological data, taking into account different regulations throughout Europe and the potential sensitivities and IPR-related issues; training onFAIR Data Management.