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。任何有互联网的人都可以免费使用cyberSW，它为古代美国西南部的宏观研究开辟了道路。迄今为止，它包含了25000个土著村庄的数据，包括陶器、石器、房间数和这些村庄的公共建筑。这笔拨款将扩大cyberSW的结构，使用类似于美国人口普查收集的信息，将其中一些村庄的个别家庭数据纳入其中。美国人口普查收集的信息包括财富、文化背景以及来自特定地址或社区的人数。这个项目将从古代家庭和社区收集类似的数据，利用他们留下的文物和建筑。此外，家庭，社区和定居点之间的联系将随着时间的推移而探索。由于cyberSW目前只提供有关定居点的数据，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进行新的研究。在部落成员的指导下，cyberSW将扩展到包括关于房间、垃圾存放和其他家庭特征的信息。这将使研究家庭及其网络在很长一段时间内的变化变得更加容易。该项目将从家庭建筑和相关工件中开发各种网络分析和度量，并通过在线科学网关提供这些分析和度量。这个网关将包括一个年表工具，它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老的土著定居点。人们将深入了解住在这些村庄里的不同社会群体。他们还将能够探索家庭和村庄如何相互作用。重要的是，它将有可能下载对其他类型研究有用的格式和规模的数据。这将使cyberSW成为地理学家和其他使用人口普查数据来研究家庭的科学家的一个伟大工具。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将成为全球大型考古数据库的典范。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，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.