Online Cultural and Historical Research Environment: Flexibility versus Standardization

Summary

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

In this first season of excavations by the Corral Redondo project in southern Peru, a database was needed to capture excavation, conservation, and survey data in the field and later respond to the reporting standards set by the Peruvian government. The Online Cultural and Historical Research Environment (OCHRE) proved to be a powerful tool for this data capture and storage, as well as flexible enough to cater to the Peruvian government’s wishes. A project using OCHRE may create a project vocabulary, or taxonomy, from scratch, or build on existing structures used by other projects. But, when taxonomic elements are shared between projects, it allows easy comparison between project datasets. This opens the door for cross-comparisons between projects which may have separate data capturing or reporting standards, but which share similar details that would allow OCHRE to detect patterns across time and space. With this poster we intend to demonstrate the successful implementation of OCHRE in the field for the Corral Redondo project and its potential for future research. (The Corral Redondo project wishes to acknowledge and thank the Institute for Field Research for funding the excavation and field school).

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• Society for American Archaeology 84th Annual Meeting, Albuquerque, NM (2019)

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Abstract Id(s): 25948