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The MAPPA Open Data (MOD) archaeological repository (www.mappaproject.org/mod) stores and considers openly accessible all kind of archaeological data from raw data to linked open data produced during the research process, including metadata, and it's connected with the Journal of Open Archaeological Data for good quality data. Our infrastructure is hosted on GNU/Linux of the Centro Interdipartimentale di Servizi Informatici per l'Area Umanistica (CISIAU) of University of Pisa, is designed on an Open Source LAMP technological platform using an Apache HTTP Server, PHP 5.x scripting language and MySQL Open Source relational database. Currently, as our main purpose was to persuade the archaeological community of the importance of open data, we use a basic policy for data management: we acquire raw data from archaeologists, and we validate the data from a legal point of view. Various types of records are published on the MOD which refer to archaeological interventions: preliminary reports, reports, context lists, context records, lists of finds, quantification records, period tables, stratigraphic diagrams, lists of activities, masonry contexts, masonry context records, rapid archiving records, excavation diaries, letters and communications, maps, sections, drawn records and photographs. Consequently, we checked the legitimacy of the activities carried out in the MOD with the records (uploading and dissemination to the public via the Internet) in the light of the following regulations: – Lawno.633of22April1941,"Protectionofcopyrightandrightsrelatedtoitsexercise"(LdA); – Legislative Decree no. 42 of 22 January 2004, "Code of the cultural and landscape heritage, pursuant to article 10 of Law no. 137 of 6 July 2002" (CBC); – Legislative Decree no. 196 of 30 June 2003, "Personal data protection code" (Privacy Code); – LegislativeDecreeno.30of10February2005,"Industrialpropertycode,inaccordancewith article 15 of Law no. 273 of 12 December 2002" (CPI). We published a detailed guide in which are explained the procedures that must be followed to prepare and provide the material to be published. In compliance with the laws, published documents are not expected to contain the personal data of natural persons who have not previously agreed to their publication, whether they are authors or third parties mentioned inside the records. Specific disclaimers have been prepared and can be downloaded to help authors correctly collect the authorisations needed to put their material online. Once validated the data, we embed metadata to each dataset describing all the information regarding the dataset itself, we stored the data in our repository, providing protection. We use a metadata schema for each dataset describing all the information regarding the dataset itself: the structure and format of the digital data, the history of the archaeological investigation, the sources used, the method and the relationship with the physical data. The schema is composed partly from Dublin Core and partly from ISO 19115 metadata core for the geographical section. We don't describe the quality of data, because we firmly believe that the quality of research data must be responsibility of researchers in a sort of open peer review method.