Keeping Track of it All: Building a Repository Database from the Ground Up

Summary

This is an abstract from the "How to Conduct Museum Research and Recent Research Findings in Museum Collections: Posters in Honor of Terry Childs" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

The Office of the Wyoming State Archaeologist (OWSA) and the Wyoming State Historic Preservation Office are shifting towards digital-only submissions for professional archaeological projects through new and interconnected database-and-web-interface systems going live in 2018/19. This poster focuses on the detailed process of creating and instituting a new database from the ground-up. The WyoARCH project includes a curation application, developed by OWSA and the Wyoming Geographic Information Science Center, which will better manage the University of Wyoming Archaeological Repository (UWAR), transforming decades worth of archaeological information from an outdated database and invigorates it. Making this platform more manageable as well as approachable for a variety of entities requires great attention to detail, patience, and time. Discussed here are the hurdles, lessons learned, and ways we are moving forward with the project.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• How to Conduct Museum Research and Recent Research Findings in Museum Collections: Posters in Honor of Terry Childs   •
• Society for American Archaeology 84th Annual Meeting, Albuquerque, NM (2019)

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Abstract Id(s): 25949