Wells SAA 2014 Public Data for Public Archaeology

Public Data for Public Archaeology: Developing Linked Open Data, Open-Source GIS,

and Sensitive Data Standards for the Digital Index of North American Archaeology

by Joshua J. Wells, Eric C. Kansa, Sarah W. Kansa, Stephen J. Yerka, David G. Anderson, Kelsey Myers, Carl DeMuth, and Thad Bisset

This presentation and all other DINAA posters and papers from SAA 2014 will be available through the DINAA blog http://ux.opencontext.org/blog/archaeology-site-data

#OpenGov Base of DINAA Data

DINAA Openness in Practice

we make we use

Who can use it: Anybody Who should use it: Everybody

Lowering Barriers to Access

*DINAA has no connection with Code for America

DINAA: #OpenScience #OpenGov & #DH Practices at Work

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*Discussant did not pay me for this

Yes, Archaeology is Changing …

But Can We do This?

DINAA in Cultural Context 1

DINAA in Cultural Context 2

The Othering of Digital Subjects

Archaeology + LOD + Geospatial & Myths of Computer Revolution

informatics (n): the science of information in computing systems and how those systems create, structure, process, and communicate that information.

archaeology (n): the systematic and scientific study of the material record of past people

A SELECTIVE LIST OF ISSUES: algorithms, archival media (storage), authorship, bioinformatics, citation strategies, copyright/left, databases, data loggers, data types, desktop publishing, drones, file management, geographic information systems, geoinformatics, geophysical remote sensing, global positioning systems, legacy information, linked open data, internet, metadata, modeling, multimedia, network data storage (clouds), ontology, open source, operating system interoperability, proprietary, radiocarbon calibration software, satellite imagery, security, search engines, silos, social media outreach, uniform resource locator, visualization □

An Informatics Approach

social informatics (n): the body of systemic research about the social aspects of information and communication technologies (ICTs); an interdisciplinary study of the design, uses, and consequences of ICTs that takes into account their interaction with institutional and cultural contexts (Kling et al. 2005)

• Analytical – how can we examine processes? • Critical – what’s really going on? • Normative – are there ways to improve?

Pros and Cons of Openness: Learning from Dick Cheney

The Heart of Openness

But some open is dangerous…

Place v. Space: Safeguard XY coords with big, complex data

An End to Fear: Big Data, LOD,

and Ethical Sharing of Place

Public Data for Public Archaeology: Developing Linked Open Data, Open-Source GIS,

and Sensitive Data Standards for the Digital Index of North American Archaeology

by Joshua J. Wells, Eric C. Kansa, Sarah W. Kansa, Stephen J. Yerka, David G. Anderson, Kelsey Myers, Carl DeMuth, and Thad Bisset

This presentation and all other DINAA posters and papers from SAA 2014 will be available through the DINAA blog http://ux.opencontext.org/blog/archaeology-site-data