Linking Convergence Between Compliance and Research Archaeology through Linked Open Data Strategies in the Digital Index of North American Archaeology

Summary

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2021: General Sessions" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

The Digital Index of North American Archaeology (DINAA) is a linked open data hub situated to help illuminate theoretical and practical connections between compliance archaeology and broader realms of archaeological science and public knowledge. This poster provides an assessment of prevalence of compliance activity represented in the approximately one million archaeological sites registered with DINAA. Areas of dense compliance activity are then compared against topic models for those areas built from the DINAA Linking Sites and Literature module, which contains citation information for journal articles, grey literature reports, and Federal Register communications. Using these two vectors of information focused on geographical areas of interest (density of compliance activity and topical foci in heritage research and preservation) we suggest compelling issues on which compliance firms and practitioners may converge with one another and with colleagues in other sectors to create data interoperability based upon integration of shared goals as reflected in intermingled concepts. Because DINAA is a completely free and open-source (CC BY and CC 0) information project, we further define practical ways that DINAA resources and other free and open-source toolkits may be leveraged by professional communities seeking to create ethically, financially, and reproducibly sustainable processes of convergence.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Society for American Archaeology 86th Annual Meeting, Online (2021)   •
• SAA 2021: General Sessions

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Abstract Id(s): 32993