Preserving an Evolving Collection: “On-The-Fly” Solutions for The Chora of Metaponto Publication Series
As digital scholarship continues to transform research, so it
changes the way we present and publish it. In archaeology, this
has meant a transition from the traditional print monograph,
representing the “definitive” interpretation of a site or landscape,
to an online, open, and interactive model in which data collections
have become central. Online representations of archaeological
research must achieve transparency, exposing the connections
between fieldwork and research methods, data objects, metadata,
and derived conclusions. Accomplishing this often requires
multiple platforms that can be burdensome to integrate and
preserve. To address this, the Institute of Classical Archaeology
and the Texas Advanced Computing Center have developed a
“collection architecture” that integrates disparate and distributed
cyberinfrastructure resources through a customized automated
metadata platform, along with procedures for data presentation
and preservation. The system supports “on-the-fly” data archiving
and publication, as the collection is organized, shared,
documented, analyzed, and distributed.
["Trelogan, Jessica", "Esteva, Maria", "Jackson, Lauren"]
["archaeological data; database preservation; collection architecture"]