Navigating Archaeology’s Big Data Reality
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Navigating Archaeology’sBig Data Reality Digital Arts and Humanities InstituteCork 2014Frank LynamTrinity College Dublin
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1990s web chic
Amazon on their 1994 launch (retronaut.com)
National Audobon Society (blog.crazyegg.com)
David Hasselhoff online (www.subzerostudio.com/)
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My type of digital archaeology
3D visualisation (arcseer.com)
Augmented Reality cultural heritage apps (kindareal.com) 3D artefact capture
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The PhD early days
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The carrot of Open Data and the Semantic Web
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Mistake 1 - building everything from scratch
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My next mistake - focussing entirely on the data provider
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Linked Open Data by example
Asking a question of the British Museum’s Linked Open Data interface
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The RDF triple
subject(uri)
object(uri, literal)
predicate(uri)
object(uri, literal)
predicate(uri)
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An RDF triple example
‘…the man is from England…’
subject
predicate
object
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One person’s subject is another’s object
‘…England is a country…’
subject
predicate
object
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An introduction to SPARQL
SELECT * { ?s ?p "Rembrandt"} LIMIT 100
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The British Museum’s response
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The first record
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Christ Healing the Sick, etching(britishmuseum.org)
A reclining lion, ink drawing on paper(britishmuseum.org)Garden vase and pedestal, ink sketch
(britishmuseum.org)
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More complex SPARQL
SELECT ?s { ?s bmo:PX_object_type ?objecttype. ?objecttype skos:prefLabel "sarcophagus". ?s ecrm:P45_consists_of ?material. ?material skos:prefLabel "granodiorite"} LIMIT 100
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The query’s graph
?s ?objecttype?material
‘sarcophagus’‘granodiorite’
bmo:PX_object_typeecrm:P45_consists_of
skos:prefLabelskos:prefLabel
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lack of awareness
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data SILOS
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reliability
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data POLICY
institutional
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1. What does it mean to be a researcher in the new Big Data archaeological research environment?
2. What tools are we now to use and are these radically different to those used by our forebears?
3. Are the types of questions that we are now asking in some way different?
4. How much creative and/or intellectual authority will we cede to the control of machines out of necessity or choice?
5. All of these questions combine to ultimately ask whether we need to be talking in terms of new epistemological environments when considering Big Data research or not?
Parting questions
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Acknowledgements
Digital Arts and Humanities PhD programmePRTLI funded
Dep. of Classics, Trinity College Dublin
Dr Christine Morris
The Priniatikos Pyrgos Project
Dr Barry Molloy and Dr Jo Day
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