Arizona State University (Tempe, AZ 85281-3670)
Michelle Hegmon (Project Director: May 2017 to March 2021)
PR-258543-18
Research and Development
Preservation and Access
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[Grant products]
Totals:
$73,524 (approved)
$58,453 (awarded)
Grant period:
1/1/2018 – 12/31/2019
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From Library to Laboratory: Developing Tools to Enhance the Use of Digital Archaeological and Other Humanities Collections
A Tier 1 project to develop a digital interface
with a series of dynamic webpages to enhance search capabilities of archaeological
field documents, images, and datasets from projects across the globe. As a test
case, the project would use the Mimbres Pottery
Images Digital Database, which incorporates a collection of more than 10,500
photographs and datasets on pottery dating to around 1000-1500 CE from southwestern
New Mexico, eastern Arizona, and northern Mexico.
Archaeologists and other
humanities scholars today can access vast libraries of digital
collections. Scholars can download these
collections, and given sufficient skills and software, analyze them for
research. We will develop tools to move
this marvelous capability to the next level, transforming the libraries into
laboratories. Our tools will allow line
analysis and research of these collections, enhancing research and opening
access to the general public. Using funding assured from other means, we will
also create K-12 and higher education programs utilizing these tools. Our work will be done in the context of a
large established digital repository, the Digital Archaeological Record
(tDAR). As a testbed, we will utilize
the Mimbres Pottery Images Digital Database (MimPIDD), a large collection of
archaeological pottery images from the Mimbres region of the US Southwest.
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