This document is intended for teachers introducing students in archaeology to basic principles of data curation and web edition. It presents the basics for a class syllabus, using the archeoViz application as a pedagogical resource.
- Concepts: metadata, data publication, data editorialisation, data alignment, Interoperability.
- Audience: intermediate, advanced.
- Material:
- a computer with an internet connection,
- a spreadsheet editor.
Concepts
- Explore the archeoViz Portal and the archeoViz instances.
- Examine and interpret the “metadata” section in one of the instances (e.g., the Barger Gulch dataset).
- Advanced students: download, examine, and comment on the “metadata table” available on the archeoViz Portal page.
- Examine the archeoViz workflow chart:
- What difference do you observe in the four options?
- What does it mean (or should mean) to “publish” data?
- What is the difference between data publication and data editorialisation?
- Examine the archeoViz ecosystem chart:
Interoperability
- Explore the Bilzingsleben instance. Describe how the data in this archeoViz instance is linked to the original database. Compare it with the Erb Tanks instance.
- Read the archeoViz documentation about the use of URL parameters.
- Use URL parameters to load the Cassenade dataset in an online archeoViz instance.
- Conversely, data can be transmitted from an archeoViz instance to third-party applications. Using the options in the “Statistics” tab, try to:
- analyse the refitting data with the archeofrag application;
- analyse the object types distribution in the stratigraphy of the Poeymaü cave with the Seriograph application.
Data alignment
For Advanced students:
- In the PACTOLS thesaurus, find the “lithic” and “pottery” concepts and their unique identifier.
- In SEAHORS, load the Cassenade dataset, and export it to the archeoViz format in a CSV file.
- Edit the CSV file to recode the “object_type” variable and align it with the PACTOLS concepts.
- Load the resulting CSV file in archeoViz and check if the link between the objects and the PACTOLS concepts is correct.
Readings
- Kansa, E. C., S. W. Kansa. 2013. “We All Know That a 14 Is a Sheep: Data Publication and Professionalism in Archaeological Communication”. Journal of Eastern Mediterranean Archaeology and Heritage Studies, 1 (1), p. 88-97. DOI: 10.1353/ema.2013.0007
- Marwick B. 2017. “Computational Reproducibility in Archaeological Research: Basic Principles and a Case Study of their Implementation”. Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory, 24 (4), p. 1-27. DOI: 10.1007/s10816-015-9272-9
OpenEdition vous propose de citer ce billet de la manière suivante :
Sébastien Plutniak (10 juillet 2023). Introduction to Archaeological Data Curation, Description, and Edition, using the archeoViz Application. archeoViz. Data visualization in archaeology. Consulté le 20 juin 2025 à l’adresse https://doi.org/10.58079/bd7j