The Current State of the Digital Index of North American Archaeology (DINAA)

Summary

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 open data and open source ethics, collaboration, and multi-stakeholder partnerships. DINAA's loose coupling of networked information forms an index through which archaeological researchers as well as the public can communicate and query disciplinary knowledge about the past, making archived data, physical collections, and documentation more readily discoverable through spatial, temporal, and cultural contexts. The project also aims to support the heritage management efforts of sovereign Tribal and other government officials. This poster reports on the current state of DINAA, highlighting current work supported by both the Institute for Museum and Library Services (IMLS) and the National Science Foundation (NSF). The poster illustrates methods to network archaeological data on a continental scale, and highlights some of the successes in building a database "by community" instead of "by committee."

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• A Link to the Past: Text Mining and Entity Reconciliation with the Digital Index of North American Archaeology (DINAA)   •
• Society for American Archaeology 82nd Annual Meeting, Vancouver, BC (2017)

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Abstract Id(s): 16721