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Steering Committee
Dr. Keith Kintigh, Arizona State University (ASU; email Kintigh) chair.
Dr. Fred Limp, University of Arkansas (UArk; email Limp)
Dr. Dean Snow, The Pennsylvania State University (PSU email Snow)
Dr. Tim Kohler, Washington State University (WSU; email Kohler)
Dr. Julian Richards, University of York (UY; email Richards)
Dr. Jeff Altschul, Statistical Research, Inc. (SRI; email Altschul)
Board of Directors Members
Brian Crane, Versar,Inc., Springfield, VA
Katherine (Kitty) Emery,University of Florida, Gainesville
Sebastian Heath, Archaeological Institute of America/American Numismatics Society, New York
Eric Kansa, University of California, Berkeley/Alexandria Archive Institute, Berkeley/San Francisco
Francis (Frank)McManamon, National Park Service, Washington DC
Fraser Neiman, University of Virginia
Vincas (Vin) Steponaitis, University of North Carolina
Willeke Wendrich, University of California, Los Angeles
Phillip (Phil) Walker, University of California, Santa Barbara
Thomas (Tom) Whitley, Brockington & Associates, Inc. , Norcross, GA
Worthy Martin, University of Virginia
Sandra (Sandy) Payette, Cornell University
Herbert Van de Sompel, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM
Resources
The Geosciences Network (GEON) project is a collaboration among a dozen PI institutions and a number of other partner projects, institutions, and agencies to develop cyberinfrastructure in support of an environment for integrative geoscience research.
GEON is funded by the NSF Information Technology Research (ITR) program.
The key integrative science theme in GEON is a more quantitative understanding of the 4-D evolution of the North American lithosphere. The cyberinfrastructure in GEON is required to support an inherently distributed system—since the scientists, who are users as well as providers of resources (e.g., data, tools, and computing and visualization capabilities), are themselves distributed. Furthermore, GEON is required to tackle the extreme heterogeneity among data and tools, across a wide range of earth science sub-disciplines and disciplines.
P2P Designed for Universities. LionShare was built from the ground up with academic users in mind. Search and retrieve academic content from other LionShare users and many academic networks across the globe.
Fedora is a service-oriented architecture for managing and delivering their digital content. At its core is a powerful digital object model that supports multiple views of each digital object and the relationships among digital objects.
The Science Environment for Ecological Knowledge (SEEK)
The Science Environment for Ecological Knowledge (SEEK) is a five year initiative designed to create cyberinfrastructure for ecological, environmental, and biodiversity research and to educate the ecological community about ecoinformatics. SEEK participants are building an integrated data grid (EcoGrid) for accessing a wide variety of ecological and biodiversity data and analytical tools (Kepler) for efficiently utilizing these data stores to advance ecological and biodiversity science. An intelligent middleware system (SMS) will facilitate integration and synthesis of data and models within these systems.
Open Context is a free, open access resource for the electronic publication of primary field research from archaeology and related disciplines. Open Context provides an integrated framework for users to search, explore, analyze, compare and tag items from diverse field projects and collections.
Online Cultural Heritage Research Environment (OCHRE)
The “Online Cultural Heritage Research Environment” (OCHRE) is an Internet database system for research on cultural heritage in all its forms. It is intended for researchers and students who are engaged in archaeological, anthropological, linguistic, and textual investigations of many different kinds.
University of Virginia Chaco Digital Initiative (CDI)
The Chaco Digital Initiative is a collaborative effort to create a digital archive that will integrate much of the widely dispersed archaeological data collected from Chaco Canyon in the late 1890s and the first half of the 20th century.
Digital Archaeological Archive of Comparative Slavery (DAACS)
The Digital Archaeological Archive of Comparative Slavery is a Web-based initiative designed to foster inter-site, comparative archeological research on slavery throughout the Chesapeake, the Carolinas and the Caribbean. Their goal is to help scholars from different disciplines use archaeological evidence to advance our historical understanding of the slave-based society that evolved in the Atlantic World during the colonial and ante-bellum periods. DAACS also serves as a model for the use of the Web to foster new kinds of scholarly collaboration and data sharing among archaeologists working in a single region.
Archaeological Data Service (ADS)
The Archaeology Data Service (ADS) supports research, learning and teaching with high quality and dependable digital resources. It does this by preserving digital data in the long term, and by promoting and disseminating a broad range of data in archaeology. The ADS promotes good practice in the use of digital data in archaeology, it provides technical advice to the research community, and supports the deployment of digital technologies. The ADS hosts AHDS Archaeology which is jointly funded by AHRC and JISC.
Uinversity of California, Berkeley Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative (ECAI)
ECAI technical infrastructure illustrates the vision of sharing distributed data and using time enabled mapping tools.
Between 1995 and 1999, a series of outreach workshops held by the International Committee for Documentation of Cultural Heritage (CIPA) has identified critical gaps in the fields of heritage Recording, Documentation and Information Management between those who provide information for conservation and those who use it.
In response, the International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS), the Getty Conservation Institute (GCI) and CIPA together created the RecorDIM (for Heritage Recording, Documentation and Information Management) Initiative partnership. The purpose of the initiative is to bring information users and providers together to identify the nature of the gaps between them, to develop strategies to close the gaps and to recommend a framework for action to be coordinated by the RecorDIM Initiative over the coming five years.
CyArk 3D Heritage Archive Network
Historic sites are in a continual state of decay. What exists today may not be around for future generations to experience. Using the latest laser-scanning technology, CyArk collects the most accurate 3D models of World Heritage Sites and stores them safely in a publicly accessible archive. The CyArk archive is a powerful and intuitive system for finding 3D point cloud data, videos, photos, CAD drawings, and other archival grade media.
Society for American Archaeology: Digital Data Interest Group
The Digital Data Interest Group (DDIG) is organized to promote the preservation and sharing of archaeological data that are maintained in digital form. The long-term conservation and protection of the archaeological record demands not only that they preserve digital documents, images, and databases, but also that they make these information resources available to other scholars so that they may be effectively used to advance archaeological understandings of the past. The interest group will seek ways to foster the development of shared digital archives of archaeological data using software that can maximize their research value while securing the confidentiality of sensitive information, and ensuring that data sources are properly credited.
The American School of Classical Studies at Athens
The American School of Classical Studies at Athens, founded in 1881, is the principal resource in Greece for American scholars conducting advanced research on the language, literature, art, history, archaeology, and philosophy of Greece and the Greek world from pre-Hellenic times to the present. Each year the School, its programs, and its facilities welcome some 400 graduate students and scholars from over 160 affiliated North American colleges and universities.
What's New
Mellon All-Projects Meeting: Archaeology, New York, March 2008
View the Archaeoinformatics Presentation
Joint Disciplinary and Technical Advisory Board Meeting, Santa Fe, February 2008
Joint Disciplinary and Technical Advisory Board Final Report
Technical Board Recommendations
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Formation of the Board of Directors
Evaluation of Existing Initiatives
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Joint Disciplinary and Technical Advisory Board Report
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