Advancing archaeological synthesis through the digitization and interoperability of ceramic data

通过陶瓷数据的数字化和互操作性推进考古综合

• 批准号: 2105424
• 负责人: Andrea Torvinen
• 金额: $ 14.8万
• 依托单位: Torvinen, Andrea
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Fellowship Award
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2021-08-15 至 2023-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2105424&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Advancing; archaeological; synthesis; through; digitization

This award is funded in whole or in part under the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (Public Law 117-2). This award was provided as part of NSF’s Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences Postdoctoral Research Fellowships (SPRF) program. The goal of the SPRF program is to prepare promising, early career doctoral-level scientists for scientific careers in academia, industry or private sector, and government. SPRF awards involve two years of training under the sponsorship of established scientists and encourage Postdoctoral Fellows to perform independent research. NSF seeks to promote the participation of scientists from all segments of the scientific community, including those from underrepresented groups, in its research programs and activities; the postdoctoral period is considered to be an important level of professional development in attaining this goal. Each Postdoctoral Fellow must address important scientific questions that advance their respective disciplinary fields. Under the sponsorship of Dr. Kostalena Michelaki-Schwartz at Arizona State University and Dr. Andrea Berlin at Boston University, this postdoctoral fellowship award supports an early career scientist seeking to revolutionize the publication and accessibility of ceramic data. This research will both advance the theory and method of archaeology and create a common tool for the dissemination and interoperability of data related to ceramic manufacture from the advent of pottery through the Historic Period—the Pan-American Archaeological Ceramic Database (PAACD). This open-access, digital repository will provide the general public and archaeologists with a virtual resource of curated reference materials. By eliminating the complications of gaining access to physical collections and paywalled publications, or deciphering inconsistent terminology across languages, this project will increase the breadth, depth, and speed of research, and facilitate the inclusion of prehistoric material culture in educational resources. Inspiration for the PAACD derives from the Fellow’s own research on the influence of social identification and collective action on the growth and decline of Epiclassic (600-900 CE) polities. Determining how closely these polities interacted and what forms their interactions took is currently hampered by a lack of regional-scale datasets. Therefore, building upon her previous research, the Fellow will complete an integrated database of ceramic types and attributes that will allow for synthetic research to be conducted. Thus, it offers an ideal foundation upon which to construct the PAACD. This work involves: (1) review and verify the existing attribute data on 238 types from 15 sites and one survey area and collect data from seven new collections; (2) conduct a technological analysis of a ceramic assemblage; and (3) integrate ceramic attribute data using the software and ontological framework of the Digital Archaeological Record (tDAR.org). The subsequent design and development of the PAACD will then involve consultation with a network of experts in ceramic technology and compositional methods that the Fellow has curated, as well as key stakeholders to ensure the functionality of the PAACD for all potential users. Several workshops will be organized to introduce the website to potential contributors and/or provide opportunities for mass data uploads to the site. The digital infrastructure of comparable and accessible data within the PAACD should be implemented in other regions of the world and replicated across other social science disciplines.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

该奖项全部或部分根据2021年美国救援计划法案（公法117-2）资助。该奖项是作为NSF的社会，行为和经济科学博士后研究奖学金（SPRF）计划的一部分提供的。SPRF计划的目标是为学术界，工业或私营部门和政府的科学事业准备有前途的早期职业博士级科学家。SPRF的奖励包括在知名科学家的赞助下进行两年的培训，并鼓励博士后研究员进行独立研究。NSF致力于促进来自科学界各部门的科学家，包括来自代表性不足的群体的科学家参与其研究计划和活动;博士后期间被认为是实现这一目标的专业发展的重要水平。每个博士后研究员必须解决推进各自学科领域的重要科学问题。在亚利桑那州立大学的Kostalena Michelaki-Schwartz博士和波士顿大学的Andrea柏林博士的赞助下，该博士后奖学金支持一位寻求彻底改变陶瓷数据的出版和可访问性的早期职业科学家。这项研究将推进考古学的理论和方法，并创建一个共同的工具，传播和互操作性的数据相关的陶瓷制造从陶器的出现，通过历史时期-泛美考古陶瓷数据库（PAACD）。这一开放获取的数字资料库将为公众和考古学家提供一个虚拟的参考资料资源。通过消除获取物理收藏和付费出版物的复杂性，或破译不同语言之间不一致的术语，该项目将增加研究的广度，深度和速度，并促进将史前物质文化纳入教育资源。PAACD的灵感来自于研究员自己对社会认同和集体行动对Epiclassic（600-900 CE）政体的增长和衰落的影响的研究。确定这些政治互动的密切程度以及它们的互动形式目前受到缺乏区域规模数据集的阻碍。因此，在她以前的研究基础上，研究员将完成一个陶瓷类型和属性的综合数据库，以便进行综合研究。因此，它为构建PAACD提供了理想的基础。这项工作包括：（1）审查和验证来自15个地点和1个调查区的238种类型的现有属性数据，并收集来自7个新收藏品的数据;（2）对陶瓷组合进行技术分析;（3）使用数字考古记录（tDAR.org）的软件和本体论框架整合陶瓷属性数据。PAACD的后续设计和开发将涉及与研究员策划的陶瓷技术和组成方法专家网络以及关键利益相关者进行磋商，以确保PAACD为所有潜在用户提供功能。将举办几次讲习班，向潜在的贡献者介绍网站，并/或提供向网站上载大量数据的机会。PAACD中的可比和可访问数据的数字基础设施应该在世界其他地区实施，并在其他社会科学学科中复制。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并被认为值得通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估来支持。