Infrastructural components are intertwined in sociotechnical regimes shaping and shaped by research inquiry, activities and social formations, regulations, and investments in equipment and competencies (Geels & Schot, 2007 Smiraglia, 2014).

Research depends on complex knowledge infrastructures made of a variety of components such as instruments, data standards, information systems, digital archives, metadata, and discovery services (Borgman, Darch, Sands, & Golshan, 2016). The results emphasize the need for further studies of how information systems shape archeological legacy in the making, which in turn will support data literacy awareness and training. A key question for the infrastructural sustainability is how to support the inclusion of innovative sharing solutions in institutionalized sharing environments. Also, information sharing for specific topics or with specific coverage appears to be developed with project funding outside of the more established sharing institutions. One important task for further research is to better understand how archeologists choose information sharing systems and how their choices impact what information they share. Based on an analysis of qualitative interviews ( N = 31) with archeologists from Europe and the United States, the results show that the interviewees use sharing solutions developed within the archeology discipline as well as general information sharing systems. The purpose is first to expand the perspective on the systems for research information sharing in archeology and second to discuss the potential impact of the knowledge infrastructure on disciplinary knowledge-making, the shaping of archeological information, and legacy data. This article adopts a knowledge infrastructural perspective on systems used for information sharing in archeology. The information systems enable innovative approaches and progress in information making, but each system also organizes information by means of the system design, the structures, and relations established and the terminologies promoted. Archeological research depends on a complex infrastructure of information systems and services built on different funding models.

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