Digital technologies are an increasingly pervasive medium for zooarchaeological scholarship, providing a means to document and preserve fragile zooarchaeological specimens, share primary data, address methodological questions, and spread the information to the wider public. During the last decade, a broad array of digital technologies has been widely applied for the creation of three-dimensional images of animal bones, with a number of freely accessible collections being developed and published online. To be beneficial for academic and non-academic audiences, the creation of these collections requires careful planning, and more attention is needed in order to ensure their longevity in the web as well as their future usability. Drawing on an online workshop, organised by the Science and Technology in Archaeology and Culture Research Center of The Cyprus Institute, titled “Zooarchaeology in the Digital Era”, this article aims to provide a snapshot of the current state of art, and the methods and digital tools being employed in the digitisation of animal remains. The article also raises some of the challenges that the international zooarchaeological community is facing in the era of Linked Open Data, including management, archiving, curation, storage, dissemination and communication of digital data to the scientific world and the wider public. In addition, the paper highlights the need for a stronger collaboration between archaeologists and researchers from the Digital Humanities’ sector in order to stimulate an innovative discourse and create fertile ground for the production of new scientific knowledge.

数字技术是动物考古学研究日益普及的媒介，为记录和保存脆弱的动物考古标本、共享原始数据、解决方法问题以及向更广泛的公众传播信息提供了一种手段。在过去的十年中，一系列广泛的数字技术已广泛应用于创建动物骨骼的 3D 图像，许多可免费访问的收藏品正在开发和在线发布。为了有利于学术和非学术观众，这些集合的创建需要仔细规划，并且需要更多的关注以确保它们在网络中的寿命以及它们未来的可用性。借鉴在线研讨会，本文由塞浦路斯研究所考古与文化研究中心科学技术组织，题为“数字时代的动物考古学”，旨在提供当前艺术状态的快照，以及在该研究中使用的方法和数字工具。动物遗骸的数字化。文章还提出了国际动物考古界在关联开放数据时代面临的一些挑战，包括数字数据的管理、归档、管理、存储、传播和向科学界和广大公众的传播。此外，