Meeting 3

2026-02-16

SIG Chrono - 3rd meeting

16 February 2026 at 10am CET time (Paris), total duration: 1h15-1h30, on ZOOM (link)

• Intro [5 min] Martina Trognitz and Thomas Huet
• Invited talk: “Beyond the Grant: Our Roadmap for the XRONOS Radiocarbon Database” [30 min] Martin Hinz (Institut für Archäologische Wissenschaften, Universität Bern, Switzerland) and Joe Roe ():

  “Radiocarbon databases have become essential to archaeological synthesis, yet they are often fragmented and built as project deliverables: they grow quickly under grant timelines, then lose momentum once funding ends, leaving users with drifting standards, unclear provenance, and versions that are hard to cite with confidence. XRONOS began in that familiar mode, and although our proposal outlined a path toward long-term, trustless stewardship, we did not reach that governance design by the project’s end. Instead, we have effectively bought time by keeping XRONOS active through its integration into my ESTER project, with the explicit aim of handing it over to a community-run model within the next five years. This talk reflects on what we think it takes to turn a “project database” into durable infrastructure, and what we need to change now so the next phase can outlive any single grant, or any single person.”

  • Q&A [10 min], all participants
• Press review: a review of recent noteworthy publications on chronological modelling [10 min]
• Discussion on the SIG Chrono newsletter [5 min]
• Discussion on SIG Membership [5 min]
• AOB [10 min]