HNDS-I: From Households to Landscapes: Cyberinfrastructure for Interdisciplinary Research in the Ancient American Southwest

CyberSW是考古知识的在线门户。网络软件对任何有互联网的人都是免费的，它为对古代美国西南部的宏观研究开辟了道路。到目前为止，它包含了25，000个土著村庄的数据，包括这些村庄的陶器，石器，房间数量和公共建筑。这笔赠款将扩大cyberSW的结构，以包括其中一些村庄内的个人家庭数据，使用类似于美国人口普查收集的信息。美国人口普查收集的信息包括财富、文化背景和来自特定地址或社区的人数。该项目将从古代家庭和社区收集类似的数据，使用他们留下的文物和建筑。此外，还将随着时间的推移探讨家庭、社区和住区之间的联系。由于cyberSW目前只提供有关定居点的数据，因此将数据库扩展到包括定居点内的家庭和社区将允许对西班牙人到来之前土著人民的生活方式进行新的研究。 在部落成员的指导下，网络软件将扩大到包括有关房间，垃圾存放和其他家庭功能的信息。这将使研究家庭及其网络如何在很长一段时间内发生变化变得更加容易。该项目将从家庭架构和相关工件中开发各种网络分析和指标，并通过在线科学网关提供这些分析和指标。这个网关将包括一个年表工具，可以对文物和家庭进行日期和分组，以重建不同时间点的社区和网络。使用这个界面和其他工具，科学家，部落成员和公众将能够在不影响实际地点的情况下探索古代土著定居点。人们将深入了解居住在这些村庄的不同社会群体。他们还将能够探索家庭和村庄如何相互作用。重要的是，它将有可能以其他类型研究有用的格式和规模下载数据。这将使cyberSW成为地理学家和其他使用人口普查数据研究家庭的科学家的一个很好的工具。它还将鼓励研究人员跨学科合作，共同了解家庭的过去、现在和未来。最后，cyberSW将成为世界各地大型考古数据库的典范。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并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，被认为值得支持。

CyberSW is an online gateway to archaeological knowledge. Free to anyone with Internet, cyberSW opens the way for big-picture research on the ancient American Southwest. To date, it contains data on 25,000 Indigenous villages, including pottery, stone tools, room counts, and public buildings at those villages. This grant will expand the structure of cyberSW to include data on individual households within some of these villages, using information similar to that collected by the US Census. The US Census collects information such as wealth, cultural background, and number of people from a particular address or neighborhood. This project will collect similar data from ancient households and neighborhoods using the artifacts and architecture they left behind. In addition, links between households, neighborhoods and settlements will be explored through time. Because cyberSW currently provides data only about settlements, expanding the database to include households and neighborhoods within settlements will allow new research on how Indigenous peoples lived before the Spanish arrived. Under the guidance of Tribal members, cyberSW will be expanded to include information about rooms, trash deposits, and other household features. This will make it easier to study how households and their networks changed over long periods of time. The project will develop a variety of network analyses and metrics from household architecture and associated artifacts, and make these analyses and metrics available through the online science gateway. This gateway will include a chronology tool that dates and groups artifacts and households to reconstruct neighborhoods and networks at different points in time. Using this interface and other tools, scientists, Tribal members, and the public will be able to explore ancient Indigenous settlements without compromising actual site locations. People will gain insight into the different social groups who lived in these villages. They will also be able to explore how households and villages interacted with one another. Importantly, it will be possible to download data in formats and at scales useful for other kinds of research. This will make cyberSW a great tool for geographers and other scientists who use census data to study households. It will also encourage researchers to cross disciplines and work together to learn about the past, present, and future of households. Finally, cyberSW will serve as a model for large archaeological databases across the world.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.