The Salmon Pueblo Archaeological Research Collection (SPARC) Project : Making the Data Accessible

Summary

Supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Salmon Pueblo Archaeological Research Collection (SPARC) Project was initiated in 2015 by the Center for Digital Research in the Humanities at the University of Nebraska Lincoln, the Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities at the University of Virginia, Salmon Ruins Museum, and Archaeology Southwest. The primary goal of the SPARC Project is creation of an online digital archive of materials from excavations at Salmon Pueblo in the 1970s. The finished archive will contain more than 15,000 scanned images (photographs, maps, drawing), roughly 30,000 pages of scanned original Salmon field forms, and a portal allowing access to more than 250,000 lines of data from dozens of Salmon databases. SPARC will be go live on the Internet in mid-2018. The variety of archaeological methods: discovery and recording, applied to the Salmon Ruins site over the years present interesting challenges for creating an internet accessible archive of the discoveries at this important "Outlier" to the primary Chacoan great houses. In part, this paper will discuss the implementation of IIIF for both documents and images, divergent epistemologies with regard to object/image data and metadata, and the ethical and political issues involved in this project.

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• Society for American Archaeology 83rd Annual Meeting, Washington, DC (2018)

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Abstract Id(s): 20658