A Link to the Past: Text Mining and Entity Reconciliation with the Digital Index of North American Archaeology (DINAA)
Part of: Society for American Archaeology 82nd Annual Meeting, Vancouver, BC (2017)
The Digital Index of North American Archaeology (DINAA) provides a continuously expanding open source gazetteer of archaeological data from governmental site file inventories across North America. While visualizing spatial distributions of commonly recorded archaeological attributes across modern municipal boundaries alone can provide unique insights into the past, the expansive utility of an open and linked infrastructure is realized when data are coupled to other Web-enabled information systems. Text mining, entity reconciliation, and unique identifiers allow DINAA to interface with publications, archives, museums, scientific journals, and web-enabled genetic datasets. This poster symposium focuses on using DINAA to create and visualize these links to the past with specific examples, including text mining of American Antiquity through JSTOR, and linking archaeological records to published information on ancient DNA datasets through the National Center for Biotechnology Information. The current state of DINAA will be reported with maps and metrics detailing up-to-date North American coverage.
Other Keywords
Big Data •
DINAA •
ancient DNA •
digital archaeology •
text mining •
Open Source •
smithsonian trinomials
Geographic Keywords
United States of America (Country) •
Georgia (State / Territory) •
Mississippi (State / Territory) •
Tennessee (State / Territory) •
North Carolina (State / Territory) •
South Carolina (State / Territory) •
Alabama (State / Territory) •
Florida (State / Territory) •
North America (Continent) •
North America - Southeast
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The Current State of the Digital Index of North American Archaeology (DINAA) (2017)
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The Digital Index of North American Archaeology (DINAA) is expanding from its initial proof-of-concept phase, scaling to a truly continental effort. As a linked open data hub for information related to archaeological sites, DINAA interoperates governmental, research, and archival information sets about hundreds of thousands of archaeological sites. Although DINAA links archaeological information at a scale that was not feasible even a decade ago, its greater strengths come from a commitment to...
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DNA Linkage: Incorporating North American Ancient DNA Data into DINAA (2017)
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Genetic data, especially from ancient samples, is frequently incorporated into modern archaeological analyses. Concurrently, sequence data from genetic/genomic research in the U.S. is increasingly available through open source context from the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI). However, in spite of the accessibility of recently published genetic data, there currently is no comprehensive database exclusively for North American ancient DNA samples, nor is there comprehensive...
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More than Just Another Number: Use of the Smithsonian Trinomial System and the Digital Index of North American Archaeology (DINAA) to Link Open Information about Archaeological Sites Across the Web (2017)
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Archaeological sites in the United States are often associated with alphanumerical identifiers known as Smithsonian trinomial numbers (STNs). Developed in the mid-Twentieth Century, STNs consist of patterned alphanumeric sequences, potentially recognizable in spreadsheets, archival records, and research literature. The Digital Index of North American Archaeology (DINAA), a linked open data hub for archaeological site information, is attempting "named entity recognition" (a form of text mining)...