Macroscopic approaches to archaeological histories: Insights into archaeological practice from digital methods
Part of: Society for American Archaeology 80th Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA (2015)
The history of archaeology, like most disciplines, is often presented as a sequence of influential individuals and a discussion of their greatest hits in the literature. Two problems with this traditional approach are that it sidelines the major of participants in the archaeological literature who are excluded from these discussions, and it does not capture the conversations outside of the canonical literature. Recently developed computationally intensive methods as well as creative uses of existing digital tools can address these problems by efficiently enabling quantitative analyses of large volumes of text and other digital objects, and enabling large scale analysis of non-traditional research products such as blogs, images and other media.
Other Keywords
open science •
Archaeological Method and Theory •
open data •
performance metrics •
citation analysis •
network analysis •
Computational Methods •
Big Data •
text mining
Geographic Keywords
North America - Midwest
Resources Inside This Collection (Viewing 1-4 of 4)
- Documents (4)
- Academic Freedom, Data, and Job Performance in the Panopticon (2015)
- Beyond Sharks and Laser Beams: Lessons on Informatics Needs, Open Behaviors, and Analytics Practices to Achieve Archaeological Big Data, as Learned from the Digital Index of North American Archaeology (DINAA) (2015)
- Grand Challenges vs Actual Challenges: Text mining small and big data for quantitative insights (2015)
- Off the beaten track: exploring what lies outside paths of most frequently cited publications in citation networks (2015)