A way to express the reliability of archaeological data: data traceability at the Laboratoire Archéologie et Territoires (Tours, France).

In order to respect the good practices in archaeology disseminated by the MASA Consortium (Archaeologists and Archaeological Sites Memories), the Laboratoire Archéologie et Territoires (Tours, France) wished to evaluate the progress of ArSol database (Soil Archives), its field data management database, with regard to the FAIR principles or the Five-Star Linked Open Data. The work undertaken to achieve compliance with these precepts has shown that it is also necessary to ensure the relevance and reliability of the published data. For data to be reusable, it seems essential to ensure traceability. Various tools' set-up for the ArSol database makes it possible to ensure this traceability from the field recording, through its exploitation, to the publication of the results of the excavation. The traceability of data, to ensure their quality in terms of reliability and relevance, is an aspect that is fortunately already taken into account in the ArSol database and that complements satisfactorily the FAIR principles requirements. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]