Creating A Unified Database Of New York City Artifacts
Author(s): Camille Czerkowicz
Year: 2016
Summary
The Museum of the City of New York and Landmarks Preservation Commission partnered in 2013 to develop an inventory of archaeological artifacts owned by the City of New York. At the Museum, we have developed a database that maintains the hierarchy of Projects, Contexts and Artifacts within each archaeological project, while also allowing users to search at the individual artifact level. Artifact level searches allow comparison across all sites within the City’s holdings – opening up new research possibilities like never before. This paper will discuss the process and structure of the new database, the process by which it was developed and touch on some opportunities for research that are newly available.
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Creating A Unified Database Of New York City Artifacts. Camille Czerkowicz. Presented at Society for Historical Archaeology, Washington, D.C. 2016 ( tDAR id: 434631)
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Keywords
General
Collections Management
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Metadata
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New York City
Geographic Keywords
North America
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United States of America
Spatial Coverage
min long: -129.199; min lat: 24.495 ; max long: -66.973; max lat: 49.359 ;
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Contact(s): Society for Historical Archaeology
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PaperId(s): 507