Making the Most of Salmon Pueblo’s Enormous Dataset: The SPARC Project
Author(s): Paul Reed; Carolyn Heitman
Year: 2018
Summary
The ruins of Salmon Pueblo were excavated by Cynthia Irwin-Williams, her staff, and students in the 1970s. A huge archive of material culture, photographs, excavation records, and analytical data was produced documenting Salmon’s Chacoan and post-Chacoan occupations. With support from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Salmon Pueblo Archaeological Research Collection (SPARC) Project was created with the goal of making the enormous Salmon dataset available to scholars through an online portal. This project (due to launch in Spring 2018) will allow users to access more than 15,000 scanned images (photographs, maps, drawings), roughly 35,000 pages of scanned original Salmon field forms, and a relational database structure integrating over 250,000 lines of data from dozens of Salmon databases. When completed, SPARC will provide researchers with unprecedented online access to one of the most important Chaco Canyon Outliers. This poster will discuss the process by which SPARC is being created and preview some of its features.
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Making the Most of Salmon Pueblo’s Enormous Dataset: The SPARC Project. Paul Reed, Carolyn Heitman. Presented at The 82nd Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Washington, DC. 2018 ( tDAR id: 443176)
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Geographic Keywords
North America: Northern Southwest U.S.
Spatial Coverage
min long: -123.97; min lat: 37.996 ; max long: -101.997; max lat: 46.134 ;
Record Identifiers
Abstract Id(s): 22166