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Open Context Database SQL Dump: Legacy Schema Tables and New Schema Tables Open
Open Context (https://opencontext.org) publishes free and open access research data for archaeology and related disciplines. An open source (but bespoke) Django (Python) application supports these data publishing services. The software rep…
Open Context Database SQL Dump: Legacy Schema Tables and New Schema Tables Open
Open Context (https://opencontext.org) publishes free and open access research data for archaeology and related disciplines. An open source (but bespoke) Django (Python) application supports these data publishing services. The software rep…
Promoting data quality and reuse in archaeology through collaborative identifier practices Open
Investments in data management infrastructure often seek to catalyze new research outcomes based on the reuse of research data. To achieve the goals of these investments, we need to better understand how data creation and data quality conc…
View article: Publishing and pushing: Mixing models for communicating research data
Publishing and pushing: Mixing models for communicating research data Open
We present a case study of data integration and reuse involving 12 researchers who published datasets in Open Context, an online data publishing platform, as part of collaborative archaeological research on early domesticated animals in An…
View article: Internet of Samples: Creating and Mapping Controlled Vocabularies for Specimen Type, Material Type, and Sampled Feature
Internet of Samples: Creating and Mapping Controlled Vocabularies for Specimen Type, Material Type, and Sampled Feature Open
Material samples are vital across multiple scientific disciplines with samples collected for one project often proving valuable for additional studies. The Internet of Samples (iSamples) project aims to integrate large, diverse, cross-disc…
View article: Internet of Samples
Internet of Samples Open
Material samples are indispensable data sources in many natural science, social science, and humanity disciplines. More and more researchers recognize that samples collected in one discipline can be of great value for another. This has mot…
View article: Internet of Samples: Progress report
Internet of Samples: Progress report Open
Material samples form an important portion of the data infrastructure for many disciplines. Here, a material sample is a physical object, representative of some physical thing, on which observations can be made. Material samples may be col…
View article: Internet of Samples (iSamples): Toward an interdisciplinary cyberinfrastructure for material samples
Internet of Samples (iSamples): Toward an interdisciplinary cyberinfrastructure for material samples Open
Sampling the natural world and built environment underpins much of science, yet systems for managing material samples and associated (meta)data are fragmented across institutional catalogs, practices for identification, and discipline-spec…
Identifying Opportunities for Collective Curation During Archaeological Excavations Open
Archaeological excavations are comprised of interdisciplinary teams that create, manage, and share data as they unearth and analyse material culture. These team-based settings are ripe for collective curation during these data lifecycle st…
Access to Government Information and Inclusive Stewardship of North America’s Archaeological Heritage Open
The Digital Index of North American Archaeology (DINAA) gazetteer works to enrich understanding of the human presence on the landscape of North America since the late Pleistocene by connecting hundreds of thousands of archaeological and hi…
Digital Data and Data Literacy in Archaeology Now and in the New Decade Open
OVERVIEW Digital data play an increasingly important role in how we understand the present and the past. The challenges inherent in understanding and using digital data are as intellectually demanding as any other archaeological research e…
Datacore Open
A journal for exploring creative engagement with the past, especially through digital means. It publishes primarily what might be thought of as âparadataâ or artistâs statements that accompany playful and unfamiliar forms of singing …
View article: Data Sharing Reveals Complexity in the Westward Spread of Domestic Animals across Neolithic Turkey
Data Sharing Reveals Complexity in the Westward Spread of Domestic Animals across Neolithic Turkey Open
This study presents the results of a major data integration project bringing together primary archaeozoological data for over 200,000 faunal specimens excavated from seventeen sites in Turkey spanning the Epipaleolithic through Chalcolithi…
Identifying Opportunities for Collective Curation During Archaeological Excavations Open
Archaeological excavations are comprised of interdisciplinary teams that create, manage, and share data as they unearth and analyse material culture. These team-based settings are ripe for collective curation during these data lifecycle st…
Archaeological Analysis in the Information Age: Guidelines for Maximizing the Reach, Comprehensiveness, and Longevity of Data Open
With the advent of the Web, increased emphasis on “research data management,” and innovations in reproducible research practices, scholars have more incentives and opportunities to document and disseminate their primary data. This article …
ZooArchNet: Connecting zooarchaeological specimens to the biodiversity and archaeology data networks Open
Interdisciplinary collaborations and data sharing are essential to addressing the long history of human-environmental interactions underlying the modern biodiversity crisis. Such collaborations are increasingly facilitated by, and dependen…
Identifiers as Mechanisms for Linking Archaeological Data across Repositories Open
Zooarchaeological specimens are the remains of animals, including vertebrate and invertebrate taxa, recovered from, or in association with, archaeological contexts of deposition or surrounding landscapes. The physical scope of zooarchaeolo…
Data Beyond the Archive in Digital Archaeology Open
This special section stems from discussions that took place in a forum at the Society for American Archaeology's annual conference in 2017. The forum, Beyond Data Management: A Conversation about “Digital Data Realities”, addressed challen…
Sea-level rise and archaeological site destruction: An example from the southeastern United States using DINAA (Digital Index of North American Archaeology) Open
The impact of changing climate on terrestrial and underwater archaeological sites, historic buildings, and cultural landscapes can be examined through quantitatively-based analyses encompassing large data samples and broad geographic and t…
Click Here to Save the Past Open
This chapter owes much to the trenchant criticism of Internet utopianism offered by Evgeny Morozov in his influential book, To Save Everything, Click Here (2014). As such, this essay reflects on some issues in the social and professional c…
Periods, Organized (PeriodO): A gazetteer of period assertions for linking and visualizing periodized data Open
The PeriodO project seeks to create an online gazetteer of authoritative assertions about the chronological and geographic extent of historical and archaeological periods. Starting with a trial dataset related to Classical antiquity, this …