Preserving an Evolving Collection: “On-The-Fly” Solutions for the Chora of Metaponto Publication Series. Jessica Trelogan, Maria Esteva and Lauren Jackson
Paper presented at the 12th International Conference on Digital Preservation, November 2-6, 2015. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Abstract:
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.
Preserving an Evolving Collection: “On-The-Fly” Solutions for the Chora of Metaponto Publication Series. Jessica Trelogan, Maria Esteva and Lauren Jackson
1. Preserving
an
Evolving
Collec0on:
“On-‐The-‐Fly”
Solu0ons
for
The
Chora
of
Metaponto
Publica0on
Series
Jessica
Trelogan
(j.trelogan@aus4n.utexas.edu)
Maria
Esteva
(maria@tacc.utexas.edu)
Lauren
M.
Jackson
(lmjackson@utexas.edu)
iPRES
2015
Chapel
Hill,
North
Carolina,
USA
November
3,
2015
2. Ongoing
Cura2on
• Digital
scholarship
transforming
research
and
publica0on
• “Defini0ve”
print
monographs
enhanced
by
online,
transparent
publica0on
of
full
collec0ons
• Cura0on
and
preserva0on
increasingly
important,
yet
burdensome
and
costly
• Complex
infrastructures
and
exper0se
required
to
develop
preserva0on
strategies
Paleobotany
Material
Studies
Excavation
Geographic Information Systems
Physical
Anthropology
Remote
Sensing
3. ICA
Web
Services
ARK
TACC
Long-‐term
Storage
Ranch
Rodeo
Central File
Share
SAV
MS
PZ
Corral
with
iRODS
SAV
MS
PZ
RDBMS
GIS
Data
Curator
Archaeologist
Editor
Staging
Area
Backup
System
LIBERAL
ARTS
Web
Services
Wordpress
Archive It
Backup
System
UT
LIBRARIES
Collaborator
University
Data Center
Collec0on
Architecture
4. research phase
field study
publication
documentation class
objects
site
notes black
gloss
terra-
cottas
structures
subject
final
draft
publication stage
PZ
site/project
dcterms:
date
dcterms:
spatial
dcterms:
isPartOf
dcterms:
source
dcterms:
version
PZ77_725_b38_p47_f18_M.tif
dcterms: isPartOf
dcterms: isPartOf dcterms: subject
dcterms: isPartOf
dcterms: isPartOf
Recordkeeping
System
7. Jessica
Trelogan
(j.trelogan@aus4n.utexas.edu)
Maria
Esteva
(maria@tacc.utexas.edu)
Lauren
M.
Jackson
(lmjackson@utexas.edu)
ICA
hFp://www.utexas.edu/cola/ica/
TACC
hFp://www.tacc.utexas.edu
Metaponto
Wordpress
hFp://metaponto.la.utexas.edu
Pantanello
ARK
hFp://ica.tacc.utexas.edu/metaponto/pz_ark
Metaponto
Survey
ARK
hFp://ica.tacc.utexas.edu/metaponto/metsur_ark
Special
thanks
to
the
Packard
Humani4es
Ins4tute
for
con4nued
support.
