Steering Committee Member Reports

University of Arkansas Report

UA provided administrative coordination, web development and hosting; including the Archaeoinformatics Virtual Lecure Series.

Arizona State University Report

Arizona State University’s effort has included intensive work on the National Science Foundation-funded implementation of a prototype digital information infrastructure, called tDAR for "the Digital Archaeological Record." ASU is also developing the 'Mexican Case Study' and for the Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology in Vancouver, BC (March 26-30), Kintigh has organized a SAA Board-Sponsored forum designed to heighten engagement of the broader discipline in the objectives of the archaeoinformatics.org initiative. 

The Pennsylvania University Report

The Penn State team is working on one solution to part of the problem of curating legacy data. They have created a search engine called ArchSeer, which can crawl published and unpublished text and generate an excellent return at high precision given reasonable queries.

Washington State University Report

WSU was responsible for the conversion of the Dolores Archaeological Project (DAP) data into the PostgreSQL format used on the Galisteo server for the Archaeoinformatics project. 

Statistical Research, Inc. Framework for Discussion

SRI explores the business and sociological issues critical to the Archaeoinformatics organization. To be considered a success, in addition to its technical merits, an archaeological digital data infrastructure must 1) be financially self-sustaining and 2) be adopted and used as an “official” repository.  Technology, finance, and adoption are not independent, and must be considered together in project planning and implementation. 

Statistical Research, Inc.
Summary of the ArchaeoInformatics.org Survey

Current Conditions and Needs in the Field