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Archaeological Collections Management: From Shoeboxes to Computer Systems (1997)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Vicki Finley.

Proper collections management is crucial to archaeology. Recent trends in conservation archaeology recognize the nonrenewable nature of archaeological sites and highlight the research potential of existing archaeological collections.


Digital Curation In The Age of Covid: Using the FAIR Principles to Foster Preservation, Access, and Reuse (2021)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Jessica Irwin. Christopher Nicholson.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Collections Management in the Age of COVID-19" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Cultural heritage managers continually face deadlines and milestones that digital resources help to meet them. Yet, many materials related to past assessments, surveys, or excavations are in hard-copy form only. They are difficult to access when SHPO offices, archives, or other hard-copy repositories are closed. In the current...


Guidelines for Curation Standards and Procedures (1983)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Council of Texas Archaeologist.

This resource is a citation record only, the Center for Digital Antiquity does not have a copy of this document. The information in this record has been migrated into tDAR from the National Archaeological Database Reports Module (NADB-R) and updated. Most NADB-R records consist of a document citation and other metadata but do not have the documents themselves uploaded. If you have a digital copy of the document and would like to have it curated in tDAR, please contact us at comments@tdar.org.


Open Obsidian Geochemistry Visualization system for the Andes (2017)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Nicholas Tripcevich. Lisa Trever. Chris J. Kennedy. Eric Kansa. Michael D. Glascock.

Obsidian sourcing studies which provide valuable insights into archaeological mobility and interaction are enhanced by the availability of geochemical analyzers, and especially by the proliferation of portable X-ray fluorescence units. This year we are introducing an open source system for analysis of geochemical datasets available in web-based repository and based on R-Shiny, a browser based analysis and visualization system built on the R project. The Andean Geochemistry data archive, a new...


Research and Collections at the Virginia Museum of Natural History (2016)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Elizabeth Moore.

The Virginia Museum of Natural History (VMNH) is an AAM accredited museum that serves as the state repository for natural history collections and occupies a purpose-built structure completed in 2007. As the state museum under the Secretary of Natural Resources, VMNH curates over 10 million archaeological, biological, paleontological, and geological specimens in trust for the citizens of the Commonwealth. The archaeology department currently curates over one million specimens. While the...


Role of Museums in Cultural Resource Management (1979)
DOCUMENT Citation Only A. L. Christenson.

This resource is a citation record only, the Center for Digital Antiquity does not have a copy of this document. The information in this record has been migrated into tDAR from the National Archaeological Database Reports Module (NADB-R) and updated. Most NADB-R records consist of a document citation and other metadata but do not have the documents themselves uploaded. If you have a digital copy of the document and would like to have it curated in tDAR, please contact us at comments@tdar.org.


Texas Archeological Research Laboratory: Everything in Texas is Bigger (2016)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Marybeth Tomka. Jonathan Jarvis.

The Texas Archeological Research Laboratory (TARL) was formally established at the University of Texas in 1963 to preserve an ever growing accumulation of records and collections documenting the unique history and prehistory of Texas for research, teaching and public interest. Acquisition of the collections and archive began ca. 1918. University excavations under the Works Projects Administration, and later the federal River Basins Survey salvage program for sites impacted by dams and reservoir...