Frison Institute Symposium: The Future of "Big Data" in Archaeology

Part of: Society for American Archaeology 82nd Annual Meeting, Vancouver, BC (2017)

Archaeology is currently experiencing a new ‘revolution’ toward the use of ‘big data’. Various research teams worldwide have started to integrate the enormous masses of archaeological data generated since the 1960s into online databases that are openly accessible to the entire profession and public. This enhancement of data accessibility promises to transform multiple facets of the discipline, from the leveraging of CRM grey-literature, to the kinds of scientific questions researchers are able to ask, to the greater involvement of archaeology in inter-disciplinary research and public engagement. The nascent turn toward big data approaches means that many of the theoretical and methodological problems/prospects involved with this kind of research must still be critically assessed at project-comparative, international scales. This symposium brings together different big data projects worldwide in order to address many of the outstanding theoretical and methodological problems/prospects and provide a framework for the future.

Other Keywords
Big Data • digital archaeology • Agriculture • Chronology • Pithouses • Spatial Analysis • Hunter-Gatherers • Theory • Data Management • Site Definition

Culture Keywords
Ancestral Puebloan

Investigation Types
Methodology, Theory, or Synthesis

Material Types
Fauna

Geographic Keywords
United States of America (Country) • Kingdom of Sweden (Country) • Kingdom of Norway (Country) • French Republic (Country) • United Kingdom of Great Britain and Nort (Country) • Ireland (Country) • Isle of Man (Country) • Kingdom of Belgium (Country) • Bailiwick of Guernsey (Country) • Republic of Turkey (Country)

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  1. Big, Slow, and Linked: Toward Distributed and Scalable Data Practices in Archaeology (2017)
  2. Building a Global 14C Database (2017)
  3. The Challenges and Prospects of Developing Radiocarbon "Big Data" for the Study of Prehistoric Demography (2017)
  4. "Constraint and Freedom" in the Era of Big Data (2017)
  5. Data Integration in the Service of Synthetic Research - SAA Vancouver Annual Meeting (2017)
  6. Detecting spatially local deviations in population change using summed probability distribution of radiocarbon dates (2017)
  7. Early warning signals of demographic collapse detected in a meta-database of European Neolithic radiocarbon dates (2017)
  8. LiDAR data and the temporal trends in the frequency of hunter-gatherer sites in the northwest coast of Finland 10,000-2,000 calBP (2017)
  9. Networking: digital archaeology repositories in Argentina (2017)
  10. A New Stable Isotope Data Repository within the Neotoma Paleoecological Database (2017)
  11. PeriodO 2: ‘Big Data’, Linked Data, and the reconciliation of absolute dates and traditional periodizations in archaeology (2017)
  12. PIDBA (Paleoindian Database of the Americas): Long term Collaborative Research at International Scales (2017)
  13. Protecting Our Fossil Fuel: Bone Dates, Date-Assessment Protocols, and the Need for a Worldwide 14C Database (2017)
  14. Size isn't everything: are our data good enough to be big? (2017)
  15. Tackling the Big Challenges of Big Data: An Example from the U.S. Southwest (2017)
  16. Waist Deep in the Big Data: How the Digital Index of North American Archaeology (DINAA) Implements Ontological and Loosely Coupled Organization around the Construct of the Archaeological Site (2017)