D2.1 First Report on Users' Needs

This document is a deliverable (D2.1) of the ARIADNE project (“Advanced Research Infrastructure for Archaeological Dataset Networking in Europe”) which is funded under the European Community's Seventh Framework Programme. It presents first results of the work carried out in Task 2.1 “Survey of users’ needs and community building”; an update and refinement of the results will be presented in D2.2 towards the end of the second project year. The main objectives of this report are to provide evidence on user requirements of key target groups (“users”) of the ARIADNE project with regard to archaeological research data, and to contribute to building a prospective user community. This information shall support the ARIADNE project in taking informed decisions regarding the specification of the e-infrastructure and services so that the integrated infrastructure is developed in a way that corresponds to perceived and actual research needs. The mandate was to provide evidence on these issues, notably through collecting feed-back from the user communities by way of a user survey