The Detection of Archaeological residues using Remote Sensing Techniques (DART) project has the overall aim of developing analytical methods for identifying and quantifying gradual changes and dynamics in sensor responses. Essentially improving the way archaeologists find stuff. DART is a data-rich project: over a 14 month period in-situ soil moisture, soil temperature and weather data were collected at least once an hour, ground based geophysical surveys and spectro-radiometry transects were conducted at least monthly, aerial surveys collecting hyperspectral, LiDAR and traditional oblique and vertical photographs were taken throughout the year and laboratory analyses and tests were conducted on both soil and plant samples. The data archive itself is in the order of terabytes.

The data collected by DART is of relevance to a broad range of different communities. Hence, the data and other resources are made available through open access mechanisms under liberal licences and are thus accessible to a wide audience. A repository and back end database can support access to individual data and dynamic analysis and mining of integrated data. This fulfills an Open Science remit. Open Science was adopted with two aims:

●     To maximise the research impact by placing the project data and the processing algorithms into the public domain.

●     To build a community of researchers and other end-user around the data so that collaboration, and by extension research value, can be enhanced.

This presentation will focus on the experiences of DART on its Open Science journey.