PIDBA (Paleoindian Database of the Americas): Long term Collaborative Research at International Scales

Summary

Compiling and making accessible primary archaeological data from multiple sources and across large areas is one of the grand challenges facing archaeology in the twenty-first century. The Paleoindian Database of the Americas (PIDBA) has been operating for over 25 years to make Paleoindian data openly accessible online to all interested parties. Data from more than 100 scholars, including locational data on over 30,000 projectile points, has been made available in digital form that has been variously used for analyses and display. PIDBA serves as a model for collaborative interaction between professional and avocational archaeological communities across the Americas. Analytical challenges include rendering data from disparate sources interoperable, assuring the security of sensitive data, and maintaining networks of researchers providing information. PIDBA is now linked with DINAA, making the information within it even more widely accessible, and hopefully it, or a data source something like it, will continue to exist long into the future.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Society for American Archaeology 82nd Annual Meeting, Vancouver, BC (2017)   •
• Frison Institute Symposium: The Future of "Big Data" in Archaeology

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Abstract Id(s): 16307