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Creating A Unified Database Of New York City Artifacts (2016)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Camille Czerkowicz.

The Museum of the City of New York and Landmarks Preservation Commission partnered in 2013 to develop an inventory of archaeological artifacts owned by the City of New York. At the Museum, we have developed a database that maintains the hierarchy of Projects, Contexts and Artifacts within each archaeological project, while also allowing users to search at the individual artifact level. Artifact level searches allow comparison across all sites within the City’s holdings – opening up new research...


Data and metadata definition of underwater 3D archaeological features (2013)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Matteo Lorenzini. Pier Giorgio Spanu.

The application of 3D technologies to archaeological research has been the subject of intense experimentation carried out by different scientific groups. Activity has focused in particular on the use of tools for the acquisition and  reconstruction of 3D archaeological features or sites. So far researchers' interest has been aimed mainly at the exploitation of the potential of 3D technologies for virtual reality and the visualization of archaeological features and artifacts, for which many good...


Organization, Tracking, And Metadata: Bar Coding For Collections Management (2018)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Lauren D. Bussiere.

Housing more than 15 million artifacts from over 8,000 archaeological sites, the Texas Archeological Research Laboratory at the University of Texas at Austin has a significant need for high-functioning collections tracking systems. As part of our institutional digitization strategy, TARL has begun implementing a system of bar codes for collections, with the goal of facilitating artifact retrieval and replacement as our collections are used for research, education, and public outreach. The system...


PeriodO 2: ‘Big Data’, Linked Data, and the reconciliation of absolute dates and traditional periodizations in archaeology (2017)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Adam Rabinowitz. Ryan Shaw. Patrick Golden.

‘Big Data’ requires consistency in the structure and description of data from different sources, so that patterns in the same attributes can be identified across datasets. Unfortunately, archaeological datasets are notoriously inconsistent in both structure and terminology. Various attempts have recently been made to resolve this problem and enhance interoperability. One strategy that has worked well for the aggregation of spatially-situated data involves spatial gazetteers expressed as Linked...


"Periods, Organized (PeriodO)": A Linked Data period gazetteer and approach to the modeling of scholarly assertions (2016)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Adam Rabinowitz. Ryan Shaw. Patrick Golden. Sarah Buchanan. Eric Kansa.

The digital files with this record include a text of the presentation and a pdf copy of the PowerPoint slides from the presentation. The PeriodO project seeks to solve a problem in the harmonization of heritage data described according to chronological periods rather than computer-readable calendar dates. It does so using a Linked Open Data approach. Such approaches, in which records in databases are associated with common points of reference, rather than described according to unified metadata...