Digital Data Collection and Management: Where Do We Go from Here?

Summary

This is an abstract from the "Refining Archaeological Data Collection and Management to Achieve Greater Scientific, Traditional, and Educational Values" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

The vast majority of archaeological investigation in the United States is conducted in compliance with preservation laws as part of cultural resource management (CRM) efforts. CRM studies have explored a wide range of social, temporal, and environmental contexts and are producing an ever-increasing volume of archaeological data. More and more data are born digital and many legacy data are digitized. New data standards and management systems are being developed and efforts are underway to integrate and synthesize data at grand scales. While CRM studies are funded by taxpayer dollars and are intended in spirit to promote historic preservation and provide public benefits, the resulting data are difficult to access and inter-operationalize and are rarely collected and managed with their long-term security, accessibility, and ethical reuse in mind. Momentum is building toward open data and open science as well as Indigenous data sovereignty and governance. CRM is reaching a critical point where consideration of diverse constituencies, concerns, and requirements is needed to plan data collection and management approaches moving forward. This presentation introduces a session focusing on data collection and management in CRM and provides an example of how the Arizona Army National Guard is striving to address these issues.

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• Society for American Archaeology 86th Annual Meeting, Online (2021)   •
• Refining Archaeological Data Collection and Management to Achieve Greater Scientific, Traditional, and Educational Values

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Abstract Id(s): 33291