Mgr. David Novák, Ph.D.

Department: Department of Information Sources and Landscape Archaeology
Job: Deputy Director of the Institute, Head of the Department, Researcher – archaeologist
Telephone Number: +420 257 014 379; 775 200 064
e-mail: novak@arup.cas.cz
Specialization: digital humanities, FAIR data, open science, landscape archaeology, GIS, databases, castellology
Projects:
HORIZON-INFRA-2023-SERV-01 Advancing FronTier Research In the Arts and hUManities
CZ.02.01.01/00/23_015/0008167 Archaeological Information System of the Czech Republic – upgrade and extension of hardware capacities
LM2023031 Archaeological Information System of the Czech Republic
DH23P03OVV040 Map of Czech Castles: Castles as Cultural Phenomenon, Subject of Research and Remains of the Past
IG18128 Sharing Heritage and Archaeological Data Effectively
LM2023031 Archaeological Information System of the Czech Republic
CA18128 Saving European Archaeology from the Digital Dark Age (SEADDA)
871034 Integrating Platforms for the European Research Infrastructure ON Heritage Science (IPERION HS)
LM2018134 Archaeological Information Sytem of the Czech Republic
823914 ARIADNEplus – Advanced Research Infrastructure for Archaeological Data Networking in Europe – plus
DG18P02OVV058 Archaeology from the sky: Analysis and presentation of Moravian and Silesian remote sensing archives
DG16P02B039 INDIHU – development of tools and infrastructure for digital humanities
LM2015080 Archeological Information System of the Czech Republic
CZ.02.1.01/0.0/0.0/16_013/0001439 Archaeological Information System of the CR – second generation
DF12P01OVV003 The Archaeological Map of the CR. A system for acquisition, management and presentation

Biography

Employed at IAP-CAS since 2012, he graduated in archaeology at the University of West Bohemia in Pilsen, where in 2018 he defended his doctoral thesis focused on medieval and early modern settlements (research on manorial sites and their role in the landscape). Since the same year he has been a researcher and head of the Department of Information Sources and Landscape Archaeology at IAP-CAS. He is the main administrator of the large research infrastructure Archaeological Information System of the Czech Republic (https://www.aiscr.cz/). He is involved, among others, in the field of FAIR data management, the use of GIS in archaeology and landscape archaeology. He is involved in a number of national and international projects in the field of open science and digital humanities.

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