Anthropological Data in the Digital Age

Jerome W Crowder Mike Fortun bull Rachel Besara

Lindsay PoirierEditors

Anthropological Data in the Digital Age

New Possibilities ndash New Challenges

ISBN 978-3-030-24924-3 ISBN 978-3-030-24925-0 (eBook)httpsdoiorg101007978-3-030-24925-0

copy The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020This work is subject to copyright All rights are solely and exclusively licensed by the Publisher whether the whole or part of the material is concerned specifically the rights of translation reprinting reuse of illustrations recitation broadcasting reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way and transmission or information storage and retrieval electronic adaptation computer software or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developedThe use of general descriptive names registered names trademarks service marks etc in this publication does not imply even in the absence of a specific statement that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general useThe publisher the authors and the editors are safe to assume that the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty express or implied with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made The publisher remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations

This Palgrave Macmillan imprint is published by the registered company Springer Nature Switzerland AGThe registered company address is Gewerbestrasse 11 6330 Cham Switzerland

EditorsJerome W CrowderInstitute for the Medical HumanitiesUniversity of Texas Medical BranchGalveston TX USA

Rachel BesaraMissouri State UniversitySpringfield MO USA

Mike FortunDepartment of Anthropology University of CaliforniaIrvine CA USA

Lindsay PoirierUniversity of CaliforniaDavis CA USA

Jerome W Crowder Mike Fortun bull Rachel Besara

Lindsay PoirierEditors

Anthropological Data in the Digital Age

New Possibilities ndash New Challenges

ISBN 978-3-030-24924-3 ISBN 978-3-030-24925-0 (eBook)httpsdoiorg101007978-3-030-24925-0

copy The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020This work is subject to copyright All rights are solely and exclusively licensed by the Publisher whether the whole or part of the material is concerned specifically the rights of translation reprinting reuse of illustrations recitation broadcasting reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way and transmission or information storage and retrieval electronic adaptation computer software or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developedThe use of general descriptive names registered names trademarks service marks etc in this publication does not imply even in the absence of a specific statement that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general useThe publisher the authors and the editors are safe to assume that the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty express or implied with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made The publisher remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations

This Palgrave Macmillan imprint is published by the registered company Springer Nature Switzerland AGThe registered company address is Gewerbestrasse 11 6330 Cham Switzerland

EditorsJerome W CrowderInstitute for the Medical HumanitiesUniversity of Texas Medical BranchGalveston TX USA

Rachel BesaraMissouri State UniversitySpringfield MO USA

Mike FortunDepartment of Anthropology University of CaliforniaIrvine CA USA

Lindsay PoirierUniversity of CaliforniaDavis CA USA

ISBN 978-3-030-24924-3 ISBN 978-3-030-24925-0 (eBook)httpsdoiorg101007978-3-030-24925-0

copy The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020This work is subject to copyright All rights are solely and exclusively licensed by the Publisher whether the whole or part of the material is concerned specifically the rights of translation reprinting reuse of illustrations recitation broadcasting reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way and transmission or information storage and retrieval electronic adaptation computer software or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developedThe use of general descriptive names registered names trademarks service marks etc in this publication does not imply even in the absence of a specific statement that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general useThe publisher the authors and the editors are safe to assume that the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty express or implied with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made The publisher remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations

This Palgrave Macmillan imprint is published by the registered company Springer Nature Switzerland AGThe registered company address is Gewerbestrasse 11 6330 Cham Switzerland

EditorsJerome W CrowderInstitute for the Medical HumanitiesUniversity of Texas Medical BranchGalveston TX USA

Rachel BesaraMissouri State UniversitySpringfield MO USA

Mike FortunDepartment of Anthropology University of CaliforniaIrvine CA USA

Lindsay PoirierUniversity of CaliforniaDavis CA USA

Richard Bruce Freeman (1959ndash2017)

We dedicate this volume to Richard a friend and colleague who passed away unexpectedly in October of 2017 At the time Richard was the chief editor of this book project spearheading its development and molding its direction Richard has been involved with the Society for Visual Anthropology (SVA) for at least two decades and was recently elected to serve on the board beginning at the end of the 2017 meeting While a graduate student at Temple University Richard started the Graduate Association of Visual Anthropologists (GAVA) and continued to advise students in that organization that he would meet through SVA Richard was an avid photographer and excellent visual researcher his work was published in Visual Anthropology Review and also notably in the volume Viewpoints (2009) edited by Mary Strong and Laena Wilder

Trained as both a photographer and an anthropologist Richard returned to school and became a librarian finding a means for combining his passion for anthropology research media practice and technology Since 2012 Richard was employed at the University of Florida (UF) as an Assistant University Librarian and the Anthropology Subject Specialist in the George A Smathers Libraries There Richard was a trusted and caring colleague He was always smiling and very friendly with new colleagues making sure they felt comfortable and welcome Richard served as a valuable mentor to staff and worked to support his faculty colleagues with his activities in the United Faculty of Florida union Richard was a very personable professional who left a lasting positive impact at UF Libraries

As an Anthropology Subject Specialist he was able to lend his skills and talents to projects in Oaxaca (with Bill Wood) as well as in Haiti and Miami (with Ben Hebblethwaite) Richard was very interested in the role of archiving big data for social science and humanities research and had recently uploaded his data on Vodou in Haiti and Miami to the Digital Library of the Caribbean a multi-institution self-upload collection which he eagerly promoted as an example of the future of digital research (httpufdcufledudloc1n=dloc) Richard chaired panels and roundtables and offered workshops on this topic at national meetings as well as at the University of Florida In 2016 he convened a panel on ldquoOrganize This Data management for anthropology in the digital age preserving our evidence for future discoveryrdquo from which this volume was born

Richard loved to travel and explore meet people and listen to music We could always count on Richard for good conversation on many different topics ranging from his beloved Cubs anthropology and digital scholarship photography and camera gear and his curious and eclectic taste in music from around the globe His website best reflects Richardrsquos enthusiastic approach to life his interests and his friends (wwwvisualquotationscom)

Trained as both a photographer and an anthropologist Richard returned to school and became a librarian finding a means for combining his passion for anthropology research media practice and technology Since 2012 Richard was employed at the University of Florida (UF) as an Assistant University Librarian and the Anthropology Subject Specialist in the George A Smathers Libraries There Richard was a trusted and caring colleague He was always smiling and very friendly with new colleagues making sure they felt comfortable and welcome Richard served as a valuable mentor to staff and worked to support his faculty colleagues with his activities in the United Faculty of Florida union Richard was a very personable professional who left a lasting positive impact at UF Libraries

As an Anthropology Subject Specialist he was able to lend his skills and talents to projects in Oaxaca (with Bill Wood) as well as in Haiti and Miami (with Ben Hebblethwaite) Richard was very interested in the role of archiving big data for social science and humanities research and had recently uploaded his data on Vodou in Haiti and Miami to the Digital Library of the Caribbean a multi-institution self-upload collection which he eagerly promoted as an example of the future of digital research (httpufdcufledudloc1n=dloc) Richard chaired panels and roundtables and offered workshops on this topic at national meetings as well as at the University of Florida In 2016 he convened a panel on ldquoOrganize This Data management for anthropology in the digital age preserving our evidence for future discoveryrdquo from which this volume was born

Richard loved to travel and explore meet people and listen to music We could always count on Richard for good conversation on many different topics ranging from his beloved Cubs anthropology and digital scholarship photography and camera gear and his curious and eclectic taste in music from around the globe His website best reflects Richardrsquos enthusiastic approach to life his interests and his friends (wwwvisualquotationscom)

vii

Jerome W Crowder would like to acknowledge the outstanding support and collegiality from his co-editors who helped make this volume a reality Mike Fortun and Lindsay Poirier readily answered his call and provided excellent feedback to our contributors and reliable assistance throughout the development process Rachel Besararsquos vast knowledge and experience with the Information Sciences helped align the technical discussions with the research cases providing smooth transitions and links between theory and method He would also like to thank the contributors for their enthu-siasm for the theme and their patience with the process as the project evolved This was an outstanding group effort

Acknowledgments

ix

contents

1 Introduction 1Jerome W Crowder and Richard B Freeman

2 Understanding Data Management Planning and Sharing Perspectives for the Social Scientist 13Michele Reilly and Santi Thompson

3 Building Socio-technical Systems to Support Data Management and Digital Scholarship in the Social Sciences 31Plato L Smith II Crystal Felima Fletcher Durant David Van Kleeck Heacutelegravene Huet and Laurie N Taylor

4 Digital Workflow in the Humanities and Social Sciences A Data Ethnography 59Smiljana Antonijevic

5 Archaeological Data in the Cloud Collaboration and Accessibility with the Digital Archaeological Archive of Comparative Slavery (DAACS) 85Lynsey A Bates Elizabeth A Bollwerk Jillian E Galle and Fraser D Neiman

ix

contents

1 Introduction 1Jerome W Crowder and Richard B Freeman

2 Understanding Data Management Planning and Sharing Perspectives for the Social Scientist 13Michele Reilly and Santi Thompson

3 Building Socio-technical Systems to Support Data Management and Digital Scholarship in the Social Sciences 31Plato L Smith II Crystal Felima Fletcher Durant David Van Kleeck Heacutelegravene Huet and Laurie N Taylor

4 Digital Workflow in the Humanities and Social Sciences A Data Ethnography 59Smiljana Antonijevic

5 Archaeological Data in the Cloud Collaboration and Accessibility with the Digital Archaeological Archive of Comparative Slavery (DAACS) 85Lynsey A Bates Elizabeth A Bollwerk Jillian E Galle and Fraser D Neiman

x CONTENTS

6 Opportunities and Challenges to Data Sharing with American Indian Tribal Nations 109Sean Bruna

7 Digital Transformations Integrating Ethnographic Video into a Multimodal Platform 129Sarah Franzen

8 Studying and Mobilizing the Impacts of Anthropological Data in Archives 163Diana E Marsh and Ricardo L Punzalan

9 The Past Is Prologue Preserving and Disseminating Archaeological Data Online 185Edward Schortman Ellen E Bell Jenna Nolt and Patricia Urban

10 Metadata Digital Infrastructure and the Data Ideologies of Cultural Anthropology 209Lindsay Poirier Kim Fortun Brandon Costelloe-Kuehn and Mike Fortun

11 Interview with Deborah Winslow of the National Science Foundation 239Jerome W Crowder Mike Fortun Rachel Besara and Lindsay Poirier

12 Post-script Thoughts on Data Lifecycle and the Lifecycle of Anthropological Thought on Data 255Lisa Cliggett

Index 265

xi

Smiljana Antonijevic explores the intersection of communication cul-ture and technology through research and teaching in the USA and Europe She is the author of Amongst Digital Humanists An Ethnographic Study of Digital Knowledge Production (Palgrave Macmillan 2015) and a series of peer-reviewed journal articles focused on ethnography of coding (2017) design of digital research tools (2016 Palgrave Macmillan 2015) data curation digital scholarly collaboration (2013) communication in virtual environments (Palgrave Macmillan 2013) and so on

Lynsey A Bates is a contract archaeologist for the Digital Archaeological Archive of Comparative Slavery (DAACS) located at Monticello as part of the Thomas Jefferson Foundation She has a BA in Archaeology and History from the University of Virginia and received her doctorate in Anthropology from the University of Pennsylvania in 2015 Her research focus is on the use of space and agriculture by enslaved peo-ple to improve their access to markets Open Science in archaeology material culture analysis and quantitative methods Her dissertation research focused on the island of Jamaica but she has also worked extensively on other islands in the Caribbean including Nevis Barbados and Dominica and with collections from the Southeastern United States including Florida South Carolina Tennessee and Virginia She is the editor of Spaces in Between Archaeologies of Slavery and Freedom in the Caribbean (2017) Her other research interests include geographic information system (GIS) analysis and database management

notes on contributors

xii NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS

Ellen E Bell received her PhD in Anthropology from the University of Pennsylvania USA in 2007 She taught at Kenyon College for four years and has been teaching at California State University Stanislaus since 2007 She co-directed with Marcello A Canuto an archaeologi-cal research project in the El Paraiacuteso Valley western Honduras An alumna of the Kenyon-Honduras Program Bell draws on the digital archive to provide Stanislaus State students who are unable to con-duct fieldwork abroad opportunities to work with primary archaeo-logical data as they explore questions of ancient social identities She teaches and writes on political organization social memory and material culture studies in the Southeast Maya Area

Rachel Besara is Associate Dean of Libraries at Missouri State University USA Prior to this she was Director of STEM Libraries at Florida State University where she played a key role in the establishment of the data management services and policies Her research has focused on shaping academic libraries services spaces and collections by using ethnographic methods to learn more about the populations served Besara received her Master of Library Science (MLIS) from Florida State University She is heavily involved in the Association of College and Resource Libraries and is a former Chair of the Library Leadership and Management Measurement Assessment and Evaluation Section

Elizabeth A Bollwerk is a senior archaeological analyst for the Digital Archaeological Archive of Comparative Slavery (DAACS) Bollwerk has worked for DAACS since 2010 analyzing archaeological collections from a variety of prehistoric and historic archaeological sites in the Southeastern United States and Caribbean She received her doctorate in 2012 from the University of Virginia Her research examines the geo-graphic distributions of smoking pipe and ceramic attributes to explore and map Late Woodland and Historic period exchange net-works in the Southeastern United States She is the co-editor of Perspectives on the Archaeology of Pipes Tobacco and Other Smoking Plants in the Ancient Americas (2016) She has also written articles in Advances in Archaeological Practice As part of her work with DAACS she has also assisted in the design and execution of workshops and training sessions that help archaeologists apply computation methodologies to the collection management and analysis of archaeological data

xiii NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS

Sean Bruna received his BA and MA from the University of Chicago and MA and PhD in ethnology and linguistics from the University of New Mexico in 2013 Bruna is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Western Washington University USA Trained under fellowships with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention the Andrew W Mellon Foundation and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation his community-partnered research draws from public health and medical anthropology to test health interventions for Latinos living with chronic disease emergent diabetes prevention practices with America Indian Tribes gender-based journal management trends in anthropology and fieldwork risk and mitigation strategies all with a critical eye on policies and practices that impact disciplinary practices and minority populations

Lisa Cliggett is professor and chair in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Kentucky USA Her National Science Foundation (NSF)-funded project on ldquoStrategies of Data Archiving for Cultural Anthropologyrdquo (BCS-1157418) explored ways to link diverse data types through ethno-graphic coding and to build a digital archive for cultural anthropology using the longitudinal data from the Gwembe Tonga (Zambia) Research Project (GTRP) Her publications relating to that project include a chapter in Sanjek and Tratner ldquoeFieldnotesrdquo edited volume ldquoPreservation Sharing and Technological Challenges of Longitudinal Research in the Digital Agerdquo and an open-source article ldquoQualitative Data Archiving in the Digital Agerdquo (httpwwwnovaedussssQRQR18cliggett1pdf) With American Anthropological Association colleagues Cliggett also collaborated on the development of the Registry of Anthropological Data (httpanthroregis-trywikiacomwikiRegistry_of_Anthropological_Data_Wiki)

Brandon Costelloe-Kuehn received his PhD in Science and Technology Studies from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute USA and is a member of the Platform for Experimental Collaborative Ethnography (PECE) Design Group His research focuses on the development of environmental science databases and their use in scientific communication and on ecological education

Jerome W Crowder is Associate Professor of Preventive Medicine and Community Health at the University of Texas Medical Branch USA where he also serves as associate director of the Institute for the Medical Humanities Crowder is a medical and visual anthropologist who has con-

xii NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS

Ellen E Bell received her PhD in Anthropology from the University of Pennsylvania USA in 2007 She taught at Kenyon College for four years and has been teaching at California State University Stanislaus since 2007 She co-directed with Marcello A Canuto an archaeologi-cal research project in the El Paraiacuteso Valley western Honduras An alumna of the Kenyon-Honduras Program Bell draws on the digital archive to provide Stanislaus State students who are unable to con-duct fieldwork abroad opportunities to work with primary archaeo-logical data as they explore questions of ancient social identities She teaches and writes on political organization social memory and material culture studies in the Southeast Maya Area

Rachel Besara is Associate Dean of Libraries at Missouri State University USA Prior to this she was Director of STEM Libraries at Florida State University where she played a key role in the establishment of the data management services and policies Her research has focused on shaping academic libraries services spaces and collections by using ethnographic methods to learn more about the populations served Besara received her Master of Library Science (MLIS) from Florida State University She is heavily involved in the Association of College and Resource Libraries and is a former Chair of the Library Leadership and Management Measurement Assessment and Evaluation Section

Elizabeth A Bollwerk is a senior archaeological analyst for the Digital Archaeological Archive of Comparative Slavery (DAACS) Bollwerk has worked for DAACS since 2010 analyzing archaeological collections from a variety of prehistoric and historic archaeological sites in the Southeastern United States and Caribbean She received her doctorate in 2012 from the University of Virginia Her research examines the geo-graphic distributions of smoking pipe and ceramic attributes to explore and map Late Woodland and Historic period exchange net-works in the Southeastern United States She is the co-editor of Perspectives on the Archaeology of Pipes Tobacco and Other Smoking Plants in the Ancient Americas (2016) She has also written articles in Advances in Archaeological Practice As part of her work with DAACS she has also assisted in the design and execution of workshops and training sessions that help archaeologists apply computation methodologies to the collection management and analysis of archaeological data

xiii NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS

Sean Bruna received his BA and MA from the University of Chicago and MA and PhD in ethnology and linguistics from the University of New Mexico in 2013 Bruna is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Western Washington University USA Trained under fellowships with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention the Andrew W Mellon Foundation and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation his community-partnered research draws from public health and medical anthropology to test health interventions for Latinos living with chronic disease emergent diabetes prevention practices with America Indian Tribes gender-based journal management trends in anthropology and fieldwork risk and mitigation strategies all with a critical eye on policies and practices that impact disciplinary practices and minority populations

Lisa Cliggett is professor and chair in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Kentucky USA Her National Science Foundation (NSF)-funded project on ldquoStrategies of Data Archiving for Cultural Anthropologyrdquo (BCS-1157418) explored ways to link diverse data types through ethno-graphic coding and to build a digital archive for cultural anthropology using the longitudinal data from the Gwembe Tonga (Zambia) Research Project (GTRP) Her publications relating to that project include a chapter in Sanjek and Tratner ldquoeFieldnotesrdquo edited volume ldquoPreservation Sharing and Technological Challenges of Longitudinal Research in the Digital Agerdquo and an open-source article ldquoQualitative Data Archiving in the Digital Agerdquo (httpwwwnovaedussssQRQR18cliggett1pdf) With American Anthropological Association colleagues Cliggett also collaborated on the development of the Registry of Anthropological Data (httpanthroregis-trywikiacomwikiRegistry_of_Anthropological_Data_Wiki)

Brandon Costelloe-Kuehn received his PhD in Science and Technology Studies from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute USA and is a member of the Platform for Experimental Collaborative Ethnography (PECE) Design Group His research focuses on the development of environmental science databases and their use in scientific communication and on ecological education

Jerome W Crowder is Associate Professor of Preventive Medicine and Community Health at the University of Texas Medical Branch USA where he also serves as associate director of the Institute for the Medical Humanities Crowder is a medical and visual anthropologist who has con-

xiii NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS

Sean Bruna received his BA and MA from the University of Chicago and MA and PhD in ethnology and linguistics from the University of New Mexico in 2013 Bruna is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Western Washington University USA Trained under fellowships with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention the Andrew W Mellon Foundation and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation his community-partnered research draws from public health and medical anthropology to test health interventions for Latinos living with chronic disease emergent diabetes prevention practices with America Indian Tribes gender-based journal management trends in anthropology and fieldwork risk and mitigation strategies all with a critical eye on policies and practices that impact disciplinary practices and minority populations

Lisa Cliggett is professor and chair in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Kentucky USA Her National Science Foundation (NSF)-funded project on ldquoStrategies of Data Archiving for Cultural Anthropologyrdquo (BCS-1157418) explored ways to link diverse data types through ethno-graphic coding and to build a digital archive for cultural anthropology using the longitudinal data from the Gwembe Tonga (Zambia) Research Project (GTRP) Her publications relating to that project include a chapter in Sanjek and Tratner ldquoeFieldnotesrdquo edited volume ldquoPreservation Sharing and Technological Challenges of Longitudinal Research in the Digital Agerdquo and an open-source article ldquoQualitative Data Archiving in the Digital Agerdquo (httpwwwnovaedussssQRQR18cliggett1pdf) With American Anthropological Association colleagues Cliggett also collaborated on the development of the Registry of Anthropological Data (httpanthroregis-trywikiacomwikiRegistry_of_Anthropological_Data_Wiki)

Brandon Costelloe-Kuehn received his PhD in Science and Technology Studies from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute USA and is a member of the Platform for Experimental Collaborative Ethnography (PECE) Design Group His research focuses on the development of environmental science databases and their use in scientific communication and on ecological education

Jerome W Crowder is Associate Professor of Preventive Medicine and Community Health at the University of Texas Medical Branch USA where he also serves as associate director of the Institute for the Medical Humanities Crowder is a medical and visual anthropologist who has con-

xiv NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS

ducted research in Bolivia Peruacute east Houston and most recently in Galveston Texas Crowder received his PhD in Anthropology from the University of Pittsburgh and then went on to hold a post-doc at University of Texas School of Public Health His publications rele-vant to this volume appear in Medicine Anthropology Theory Medical Anthropology Journal of Empirical Research on Human Research Ethics and Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication Crowder also co-authored Visual Research (2013) He has served on the boards of both the Society for Humanistic Anthropology (SHA) and Society of Visual Anthropology (SVA) he is the president-elect of the SVA

Fletcher Durant is Associate University Librarian at the University of Florida George A Smathers Libraries USA Durant is the Head of Conservation and Preservation and an affiliate faculty in Museum Studies at the University of Florida (UF) Prior to joining UF he was the Preservation Archivist for NYU (New York University) Libraries and an Assistant Conservator for Special Collection at the New York Public Library He received his Master of Science in Information Systems (MSIS) and Certificate of Advanced Study (CAS) in the Conservation of Library and Archival Materials from the University of Texas His research interests are in sustainable preservation practices collection assessment and conservation decision-making

Crystal Felima is CLIR Postdoctoral Fellow in Caribbean Data Curation at the University of Florida George A Smathers Libraries USA She is an affiliate faculty of the African American Studies Program and the Center for Latin American Studies Felima received her doctorate in Anthropology at the University of Florida Her research interests include disasters and vulnerability in the Caribbean international development and digital pedagogy Felimarsquos work in digital humani-ties explores the emerging trends and best practices in critical digital pedagogies in Caribbean studies Felima is a recipient of a 2014 Boren Fellowship Award to Haiti and an Inaugural Fellow of the Haitirsquos Future Fellowship Program hosted by the Haitian Embassy to the USA in Washington DC Her work has been published in the Journal of Haitian Studies and Anthropology News She is working on her manuscript on disaster narratives flooding and agency in Haiti

Kim Fortun is a professor and department chair in the Department of Anthropology at the University of California Irvine USA Her research

xv NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS

and teaching focus on environmental risk and disaster data practices and politics and experimental ethnographic methods and research design Her research has examined how people in different geographic and organiza-tional contexts understand environmental problems uneven distributions of environmental health risks developments in the environmental health sciences and factors that contribute to disaster vulnerability From 2005 to 2010 she co-edited (with Mike Fortun) the journal Cultural Anthropology She leads the design of the Platform for Experimental and Collaborative Ethnography (PECE) an open-source-access digital plat-form for anthropological and historical research She is also helping orga-nize both the Disaster-STS (Science Technology and Society) Research Network and the Research Data Alliancersquos Digital Practices in History and Ethnography Interest Group Fortun co-edited a book series titled Critical Studies in Risk and Disaster designed to connect academic research to public problems and policy reaching audiences in different regions of the world

Mike Fortun is an associate professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of California Irvine USA His research has centered on the history and anthropology of the life sciences in particular the contemporary science culture and political economy of genomics He leads the design of the Platform for Experimental and Collaborative Ethnography (PECE) an open-source-access digital platform for anthropological and historical research He is also a co-chair of the Digital Practices in History and Ethnography Interest Group and the Empirical Humanities Metadata Working Group of the Research Data Alliance (rd-allianceorg) an international organization of researchers working to build the social and technical bridges that enable open sharing of data

Sarah Franzen is a postdoctoral fellow at the Wolf Humanities Center University of Pennsylvania USA She received her PhD from the Institute for Liberal Arts at Emory University an MA from Manchester University in Visual Anthropology and a BA from Colorado State University Her interdisciplinary research integrates theories of visual anthropology rural development and critical race studies with multimodal ethnographic methods in order to examine community-based agriculture as a form of social change She has worked extensively with African American farm cooperatives for the past five years as a researcher filmmaker and participant

xv NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS

and teaching focus on environmental risk and disaster data practices and politics and experimental ethnographic methods and research design Her research has examined how people in different geographic and organiza-tional contexts understand environmental problems uneven distributions of environmental health risks developments in the environmental health sciences and factors that contribute to disaster vulnerability From 2005 to 2010 she co-edited (with Mike Fortun) the journal Cultural Anthropology She leads the design of the Platform for Experimental and Collaborative Ethnography (PECE) an open-source-access digital plat-form for anthropological and historical research She is also helping orga-nize both the Disaster-STS (Science Technology and Society) Research Network and the Research Data Alliancersquos Digital Practices in History and Ethnography Interest Group Fortun co-edited a book series titled Critical Studies in Risk and Disaster designed to connect academic research to public problems and policy reaching audiences in different regions of the world

Mike Fortun is an associate professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of California Irvine USA His research has centered on the history and anthropology of the life sciences in particular the contemporary science culture and political economy of genomics He leads the design of the Platform for Experimental and Collaborative Ethnography (PECE) an open-source-access digital platform for anthropological and historical research He is also a co-chair of the Digital Practices in History and Ethnography Interest Group and the Empirical Humanities Metadata Working Group of the Research Data Alliance (rd-allianceorg) an international organization of researchers working to build the social and technical bridges that enable open sharing of data

Sarah Franzen is a postdoctoral fellow at the Wolf Humanities Center University of Pennsylvania USA She received her PhD from the Institute for Liberal Arts at Emory University an MA from Manchester University in Visual Anthropology and a BA from Colorado State University Her interdisciplinary research integrates theories of visual anthropology rural development and critical race studies with multimodal ethnographic methods in order to examine community-based agriculture as a form of social change She has worked extensively with African American farm cooperatives for the past five years as a researcher filmmaker and participant

xvi NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS

Jillian E Galle DAACS Project Director has directed the Digital Archaeological Archive of Comparative Slavery (wwwdaacsorg) at Monticello since its inception in 2000 She received her PhD from the University of Virginia in 2006 Galle specializes in early modern Atlantic World material culture and studies how women and men used material culture to navigate slavery and freedom throughout the Caribbean and Southeast in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries She has active fieldwork collaborations in Jamaica and has led fieldwork in Nevis St Kitts Virginia and Tennessee She is the editor of Engendering African American Archaeology (2004) and has written articles in American Antiquity The Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory and edited volumes She is editing a volume for the University of Alabama Press titled Beyond the Mansion 30 Years of Archaeological Research on Slavery at the Hermitage Her computing expertise includes relational database design SQL SAS and R programming HTML Word Press and CAD

Heacutelegravene Huet is Assistant University Librarian at the University of Florida George A Smathers Libraries USA Huet oversees many international collections and collaborates on a variety of projects from creating exhibits to organizing conferences As a digital humanist and the Vice-Chair of the Florida Digital Humanities Consortium (FLDH) a collective of institu-tions in Florida that seeks to promote an understanding of the humanities in light of digital technologies and research she is particularly interested in studying how digital tools can help facilitate students and facultyrsquos research Finally as the Chair of the Collection Development Working Group of the Collaborative Initiative for French Language Collections (CIFNAL) she is overseeing the creation of a list of French and Francophone Digital Humanities projects This list showcases the various digital projects on which scholars are working in the USA as well as in France and Francophone countries and helps foster new collaborations between scholars and institutions

Diana E Marsh is a museum anthropologist and postdoctoral fellow at the National Anthropological Archives (NAA) part of the Smithsonianrsquos National Museum of Natural History At the NAA she is leading a three- year National Science Foundation (NSF)-funded project to research the use access and discoverability of the NAArsquos collections She com-pleted her PhD in Anthropology at the University of British Columbia in 2014 her MPhil in Social Anthropology with a muse-

xvii NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS

ums and heritage focus at the University of Cambridge in 2010 and a BFA (Bachelor of Fine Arts) in Visual Arts and Photography at the Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University in 2009

Fraser D Neiman is Director of Archaeology at Monticello and a lec-turer in the Departments of Anthropology and Architectural History at the University of Virginia USA where he teaches courses in archaeology and quantitative methods (wwwpeoplevirginiaedu~fn9r) Neimanrsquos Monticello research aims to locate all archaeological sites located on the 2000-acre core of Jeffersonrsquos Monticello Plantation advance our under-standing of Monticello Plantationrsquos ecology in the past and present and elucidate the lives of enslaved field workers and overseers who lived and labored on Monticellorsquos quarter farms during the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries Monticellorsquos archaeology department is also home to the Digital Archaeological Archive of Comparative Slavery (DAACS) DAACS is a collaborative experiment in the use of internet technologies to promote comparative quantitative and synthetic analysis of archaeo-logical data from the slave societies that evolved in North America and the Caribbean during the early modern era

Jenna Nolt is the Digital Initiatives Librarian at Kenyon College USA She received her Masters of Library and Information Science from the University of Tennessee in 2011 and started working at Kenyon in 2014 Nolt administrates the institutional repository Digital Kenyon (digitalkenyonedu) and works with faculty staff and students to develop new workflows protocols and standards for digital scholar-ship and digital archival projects She is a strong proponent of open access and information equality

Lindsay Poirier is Assistant Professor of Science and Technology Studies at the University of California Davis USA She received her PhD in Science and Technology Studies from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute She is the Lead Platform Architect for the Platform for Experimental Collaborative Ethnography (PECE) and serves as a co- chair for the Empirical Humanities Metadata Working Group with the Research Data Alliance

Ricardo L Punzalan is Assistant Professor of Archives and Digital Curation at the College of Information Studies University of Maryland College Park USA He is also an affiliate assistant professor in the Department of Anthropology and the Maryland Institute for Technology

xviii NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS

in the Humanities (MITH) and co-directs the Museum Scholarship and Material Culture program His Institute of Museum and Library Services early career grant is researching and developing strategies to assess digitized ethnographic archives access for academic and Indigenous community users Punzalan holds a PhD in Information and graduate certificates in Science Technology and Society (STS) and Museum Studies from the University of Michigan

Michele Reilly is Associate Dean of Libraries Director for Resource Management Services at the University of Arkansas IT Director Reilly received her Master of Library Science (MLS) degree from Indiana University in Bloomington (2005) with a concentration in collec-tion development and library management In her current position as Associate Dean of Libraries for the University of Arkansas Libraries some of the duties she provides are materials budget management collection development strategies oversight of the technical services integrated library system and resource accessibility Her research has concentrated on the access discoverability preservation of digital cultural heritage materials the future of digital technologies that brings these unique resources to a wider audience and how users are affected and interact with online cultural heritage assets

Edward Schortman received his PhD in Anthropology from the University of Pennsylvania USA in 1984 He is the incumbent of the J K Smail Chair in Anthropology at Kenyon College where he has taught since 1981 During that time he also co-directed with Patricia Urban an archaeological research in the Naco lower Cacaulapa and middle Ulua valleys of northwestern Honduras He teaches and writes exten-sively on the structures and practices of ancient political economies and is exploring the relevance of network theories to understand these prehistoric processes

Plato L Smith II is Associate University Librarian at the University of Florida (UF) George A Smathers Libraries USA Smith assists in the development of socio-technical (people policies technologies communi-ties) relationships with diverse stakeholders and leads the Data Management and Curation Working Group (DMCWG) at UF Prior to joining UF in 2016 Smith completed the 2014ndash2016 CLIR Postdoctoral Fellowship Program in Data Curation at the University of New Mexico He received his doctorate in the field of Information Science

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from the School of Information within the College of Communication and Information at Florida State University (FSU) Floridarsquos iSchool Summer 2014 He has experience in digital libraries and data man-agement and he received his Masterrsquos from the Graduate School of Library and Information Sciences at the North Carolina Central University From 2005 to 2012 he was the Department Head for the FSU Librariesrsquo Digital Library where he developed populated and managed digital collections in the FSU Librariesrsquo digital content management system DigiNole Repository and electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs) institutional repository (IR) In 2019 Smith was awarded the GreyNet Award by the Grey Literature Network Service (GreyNet)

Laurie N Taylor is Chair of the Digital Partnerships amp Strategies Department at the University of Florida George A Smathers Libraries USA She serves as the Digital Scholarship Director of the Digital Library of the Caribbean (dLOC) and the editor-in-chief of the LibraryPressUF Her scholarship focuses on the socio-technical (eg people poli-cies technologies communities) aspects of cyberinfrastructure to support the evolution of intellectual work She has written numerous refereed works and has been the principal investigator (PI) co-PI and investigator on many grants In 2018 Taylor was awarded the Caribbean Information Professional of the Year by the Association of Caribbean University Research and Institutional Libraries (ACURIL)

Santi Thompson is Head of Digital Research Services Associate Librarian at the University Libraries University of Houston (UH) USA Thompson develops policies and workflows for the digital compo-nents of scholarly communications including digital research support and digital repositories His work on the assessment of digital repository meta-data software and content reuse has been published Prior to his position at UH Thompson was the Project Manager of the South Carolina Digital Newspaper Program at the University of South Carolina Libraries He received his MA in Public History and Master of Science in Information Systems (MLIS) from the University of South Carolina

Patricia Urban received her PhD in Anthropology from the University of Pennsylvania USA in 1986 She holds the J K Smail Chair in Anthropology (emerita) at Kenyon College where she taught for 34

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years While at Kenyon she developed and co-directed with Edward Schortman the Kenyon-Honduras Program (1983ndash2008) The latter combined student instruction in archaeology and ethnography with investigations of prehistoric developments within the lower Cacaulapa Naco and middle Ulua valleys of northwestern Honduras She has taught and written widely on ancient settlement patterns ceramic analyses and trade relations within and beyond Southeastern Mesoamerica (the adjoining portions of Honduras Guatemala and El Salvador)

David Van Kleeck is Assistant University Librarian at the University of Florida (UF) George A Smathers Libraries USA Van Kleeck is Chair of the Cataloging and Discovery Services Department at the University of Florida George A Smathers Libraries His responsibilities include direct-ing departmental operations representing UF for cataloging- related ini-tiatives and committees in support of public universities and colleges in Florida and promoting local and statewide participation in the interna-tional cooperative cataloging initiatives of the Library of Congressrsquo Program for Cooperative Cataloging (PCC) He has served on national- level committees including the PCC BIBFRAME Task Force and is the co-chair of the American Library Association (ALA) Association for Library Collections amp Technical Services (ALCTS) Heads of Cataloging Departments Interest Group His research is focused on three related areas (1) utilizing high-quality metadata to support user discovery and access (2) leveraging emerging technologies to enhance metadata and facilitate cataloging efficiencies and (3) reviewing the impact of best prac-tices and technologies on the profession

Deborah Winslow is a senior scholar at the School for Advanced Research in Santa Fe New Mexico and Professor Emeritus at the University of New Hampshire USA Previously she was Program Director for Cultural Anthropology at the National Science Foundation (2005ndash2019) A cultural anthropologist (PhD Stanford University) who specializes in South Asia she has conducted fieldwork in India and primarily Sri Lanka She is particularly interested in the emergence of social cultural and economic systems over time and space Her work has been supported by among others the National Institute for Mental Health the National Science Foundation the National Endowment for the Humanities the American Institute for Sri Lankan Studies and Fulbright Her publications include two edited volumes and

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numerous articles book chapters and encyclopedia articles Winslowrsquos interest in digital data and archiving began with a growing awareness that as the post-World War II generations of anthropologists retired or even passed away many of them did so without providing for the preservation of their always unique field materials Being at the National Science Foundation gave her the opportunity to help in the implementation of policies to thwart this trend

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Fig 31 OAIS reference modelmdashfunctional entities 36Fig 32 Stakeholdersrsquo roles aligned with data curation lifecycle

responsibilities (DAF Implementation Guide (2009) (Adapted) httpwwwdata-auditeudocsDAF_Implementation_Guidepdf) 43

Fig 33 UF Department of Linguistic-specific DMP processes example 45Fig 51 Landing page for selecting specific query types on DAACS

data (httpswwwdaacsorgquery-the-database) 90Fig 52 Descriptive page on excavations at the New River Estate

Nevis on the International Slavery Museum online exhibit (httpwwwliverpoolmuseumsorgukismslaveryarchaeologysitesnew-riverinvestigationsindexaspx Copyright National Museums Liverpool 2018) 97

Fig 53 Sample ceramic table data entry page in the DAACS Research Consortium web application 100

Fig 71 Picture from clip with log notes playing in the viewer of FCP 138Fig 72 Image from Carto with Sumter County soils mapped 150Fig 73 Image from Carto showing ldquoprime farm landrdquo color coded in

green 151Figs 74 and 75 Images from two points in the Odyssey story map 154Fig 76 Image of menu items created in first Eko project 157Fig 77 Image from second Eko project 158Fig 81 Schedule of completion 171Fig 91 The four valleys region western Honduras 188

list of figures

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numerous articles book chapters and encyclopedia articles Winslowrsquos interest in digital data and archiving began with a growing awareness that as the post-World War II generations of anthropologists retired or even passed away many of them did so without providing for the preservation of their always unique field materials Being at the National Science Foundation gave her the opportunity to help in the implementation of policies to thwart this trend

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Fig 31 OAIS reference modelmdashfunctional entities 36Fig 32 Stakeholdersrsquo roles aligned with data curation lifecycle

responsibilities (DAF Implementation Guide (2009) (Adapted) httpwwwdata-auditeudocsDAF_Implementation_Guidepdf) 43

Fig 33 UF Department of Linguistic-specific DMP processes example 45Fig 51 Landing page for selecting specific query types on DAACS

data (httpswwwdaacsorgquery-the-database) 90Fig 52 Descriptive page on excavations at the New River Estate

Nevis on the International Slavery Museum online exhibit (httpwwwliverpoolmuseumsorgukismslaveryarchaeologysitesnew-riverinvestigationsindexaspx Copyright National Museums Liverpool 2018) 97

Fig 53 Sample ceramic table data entry page in the DAACS Research Consortium web application 100

Fig 71 Picture from clip with log notes playing in the viewer of FCP 138Fig 72 Image from Carto with Sumter County soils mapped 150Fig 73 Image from Carto showing ldquoprime farm landrdquo color coded in

green 151Figs 74 and 75 Images from two points in the Odyssey story map 154Fig 76 Image of menu items created in first Eko project 157Fig 77 Image from second Eko project 158Fig 81 Schedule of completion 171Fig 91 The four valleys region western Honduras 188

list of figures

xxiii

Fig 31 OAIS reference modelmdashfunctional entities 36Fig 32 Stakeholdersrsquo roles aligned with data curation lifecycle

responsibilities (DAF Implementation Guide (2009) (Adapted) httpwwwdata-auditeudocsDAF_Implementation_Guidepdf) 43

Fig 33 UF Department of Linguistic-specific DMP processes example 45Fig 51 Landing page for selecting specific query types on DAACS

data (httpswwwdaacsorgquery-the-database) 90Fig 52 Descriptive page on excavations at the New River Estate

Nevis on the International Slavery Museum online exhibit (httpwwwliverpoolmuseumsorgukismslaveryarchaeologysitesnew-riverinvestigationsindexaspx Copyright National Museums Liverpool 2018) 97

Fig 53 Sample ceramic table data entry page in the DAACS Research Consortium web application 100

Fig 71 Picture from clip with log notes playing in the viewer of FCP 138Fig 72 Image from Carto with Sumter County soils mapped 150Fig 73 Image from Carto showing ldquoprime farm landrdquo color coded in

green 151Figs 74 and 75 Images from two points in the Odyssey story map 154Fig 76 Image of menu items created in first Eko project 157Fig 77 Image from second Eko project 158Fig 81 Schedule of completion 171Fig 91 The four valleys region western Honduras 188

list of figures

xxiv LIST OF FIGURES

Fig 92 PVN Site 202 (Las Canoas) Structure 30 Students in the field use themed nonsense names to identify architectural features like this wall foundation during excavation The names are replaced with Construction Unit numbers in publications but are used to reference features in field records included in the archive such as field notes excavation drawings photographs and the like This naming convention illustrates one of many challenges in making the archive easy to use for researchers unfamiliar with project recording practices (Image by Jocelyn Camarillo courtesy of the Instituto Hondureno de Antropologia e Historia or IHAH) 193

Fig 93 Students use an electronic total station (including electronic distance measurement EDM) to map El Paraiso Valley (EPV) Site 007 (Los Naranjitos) Structure 2 (Image by Ellen Bell courtesy of the IHAH) 197

Fig 94 Packing up after a long day in the field (Image by Ellen Bell courtesy of the IHAH) 204

Fig 101 Seeing standards A visualization of the metadata universe 210