Doris Vickers

{{Short description|Austrian archaeoastronomer}}

Doris Vickers (born 1980) is an Austrian archaeoastronomer and content manager for the Unesco Portal to the Heritage of Astronomy.{{cite web|title=Web portal project - core team|url=http://www2.astronomicalheritage.net/index.php/contacts/web-portal-project-team|website=Portal to the Heritage of Astronomy|publisher=UNESCO|accessdate=29 July 2016}}

She was a global co-ordinator of the Ancient Skies project, along with Ruediger Schulz.{{cite web|title=About us|url=https://www.ancient-skies.org/index.php/about-us|publisher=Ancient-Skies: Human Cultures and Their Skies|accessdate=29 July 2016}} The project began in 2006 aiming to create a knowledge base of human cultures and their knowledge of astronomy, with the vision "One Planet – One Mankind – One Sky – One Knowledgebase", and {{as of|July 2016|lc=on}} is "currently transferring the complete project to a new environment".{{cite web|title=Home page|url=https://www.ancient-skies.org/index.php|publisher=Ancient-Skies: Human Cultures and Their Skies|accessdate=29 July 2016}}

In February 2016 she appeared on BBC Radio 4's The Museum of Curiosity. Her hypothetical donation to this imaginary museum was a star clock.{{cite web|title=Series 8: Hound, Vickers, Smit|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06z2853|website=The Museum of Curiosity|publisher=BBC|accessdate=29 July 2016}}

Publications

  • {{cite journal|last1=Schultz|first1=Rüdiger|last2=Vickers|first2=Doris|title=The 'Ancient Skies' project—human cultures and their skies|journal=Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union|date=26 July 2011|volume=7|issue=S278|pages=397–403|doi=10.1017/S1743921311012853|bibcode=2011IAUS..278..397S |url=http://journals.cambridge.org/download.php?file=%2FIAU%2FIAU7_S278%2FS1743921311012853a.pdf&code=eff06ec06b8d048067d2aaa56a4c8e16|accessdate=29 July 2016|doi-access=free}}

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