Collections
To’aga Site Archive Digitization Project- Professor Patrick Kirch
Digital Archaeology Collections- Professor Ruth Tringham
To’aga Site Archive Digitization Project
We propose to develop a digital archive of all of the materials associated with the To’aga Site archaeology project, which was carried out under the direction of Prof. P. V. Kirch from 1987-89. To’aga is an important early phase (ca. 900-100 B.C.) Polynesian site situated on the island of Ofu in American Samoa. It is a National Register historical site, and is associated with a National Park. The archaeological investigations at To’aga were published by the U. C. Berkeley Archaeological Research Facility in 1993, and the artifacts, specimens, and notes are curated in the Oceanic Archaeology Laboratory. Our goal is to develop a digital archive of these curated materials, including all field notes and records, data sets, digital images of artifacts, etc., and to make these available for full public access (through Creative Commons). This project is intended to serve as a trial run or pilot project, to develop the kind of data structures for digitally archiving similar archaeological data sets developed by Prof. Kirch throughout Oceania. We hope that it will lead to a long-term project to eventually provide a public access digital archive for Pacific archaeology.
Links:
mvpublish.berkeley.edu/res/sites/ kirch/toaga
Digital Archaeology Collections (powered by OKAPI)
As part of the Scholar’s Box project, the archaeology faculty worked with Open Knowledge and the Public Interest (OKAPI) to develop exemplars and guidelines for creating reusable digital collections. These collections were designed to facilitate sharing of digital research and teaching materials among Anthropology faculty, students, and the public.
Initially, the goal of the Digital Resource Pool (DRP) was to provide a place for the archaeology faculty to reposit materials for the Anthropology 2 course, Introduction to Archaeology. This compulsory service-learning course serves 200-300 undergraduate students per semester. This collection grew to hold content for 4 other courses (Anthropology 129a, 136c, 229a, and 230). The materials the DRP holds are reusable for the teaching of these courses. However, due to copyright issues, this collection cannot be shared with the public. Faculty can only access their own personal collections.
The Open Archaeology Collection stemmed from the DRP. Attempting to create an open collection for the teaching of Anthropology 2: Introduction to Archaeology, OKAPI collected open-licensed content from all over the web, as well as included the course syllabus, assignments, and lecture, which were also under an open license. This collection is for faculty, students, and the general public to use and learn from.
Remixing Çatalhöyük was constructed during the Spring 2007 semester by a team of UC Berkeley students, staff, and faculty, working in close collaboration with the Berkeley Archaeologists at Çatalhöyük (BACH). Remixing Çatalhöyük highlights and supports a multi-vocal approach to history, where the global, online community is invited to participate in the dialogue alongside the physical, local community. The OKAPI and BACH teams hope that this project will inspire other researchers to openly share their research data and engage broad public audiences.
Links:
Remixing Catalhoyuk
- okapi.dreamhosters.com/remixing
- mvpublish.berkeley.edu/res/sites/tringham/life
- mvpublish.berkeley.edu/res/sites/tringham/senses
- mvpublish.berkeley.edu/res/sites/tringham/scales
- mvpublish.berkeley.edu/res/sites/tringham/public
Open Archaeology Collection
- okapi.berkeley.edu/openarchaeology
Digital Resource Pool:
- http://mvpublish.berkeley.edu/res/sites/tringham/pool/ [restricted access]
