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Grant Support Summaries
Source: http://dev.tdar.org/confluence/display/TDAR/Project+Background
Digital Antiquity Project Receives Mellon Foundation Grant
In 2007, a multidisciplinary team of researchers from several universities was awarded an
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Grant to develop a long-term plan for the organization and
operation of integrated digital archaeological data systems. This activity led to the creation of
archaeoinformatics.org, which is charged with developing a user-friendly and attractive but
technologically and financially feasible plan for the implementation of archaeological
cyberinfrastructure.
Check out archaeoinformatics.org [working link]
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Kintigh, K.W., Altschul, J., Kohler, T., Limp, F., Richards, J., Snow, D.
2007
Digital Antiquity: Planning a Digital Information Infrastructure for Archaeology. Andrew W. Mellon Foundation,
Scholarly Communications Program (1 year).
NSF Human Social Dynamics Grant Awarded for Development of KADIS
Researchers including archaeologists and computer scientists were awarded a 3-year grant in
2006 for the development of a Knowledge-Based Archaeological Data Integration System
(KADIS). The purpose of KADIS is to amalgamate long-term data on society, population, and
environment in an easily searchable database, so that scientists across disciplines can utilize
important archaeological data sets. This revolutionary project involves a multidisciplinary team
of researchers, graduate student assistants and undergraduate interns.
For more information, please see the full NSF summary at [link to 2006 Project Summary, currently
available at http://dev.tdar.org/confluence/display/TDAR/2006+Project+Summary ]
Kintigh, K.W., Candan, S., Davulcu, H., Kambhampati, S., Nelson, M.C., Spielmann, K.A.
2006
Archaeological Data Integration for the Study of Long-Term Human and Social Dynamics. The National Science
Foundation, Human Social Dynamics Grant 0624341 (3 years).
(Key ASU Collaborators: H. Cao, J. Howard, A. Lee, B. Nelson, Y. Qi)
NSF Human Social Dynamics Grant Awarded for Archaeological Cyberinfrastructure Workshop
Archaeologists, computer scientists and other informatics researchers came together at the
2004 workshop, “The Promise and Challenge of Archaeological Data Integration” to develop a
shared vision of archaeological cyberinfrastructure based on new technologies in information
integration. Together they preliminarily concluded that the planned infrastructure would
enable research at greater scales than currently possible, by providing more effective access to
data and would protect fragile data while improving documentation. These conclusions, and
the recommendations of the workshop, were endorsed by the Society for American
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Archaeology, American Association of Physical Anthropologists and the Society for Historical
Archaeology.
For the full report, please see [link to the American Antiquity forum article edited by Kintigh]
Also, check out the letters of endorsement: [links to the SAA, AAPA, SHA endorsement letters]
Kintigh, K.W., Anderies, J.M., Baral, C.R., Candan, K.S., Davulcu, H., Hegmon, M., Kambhampati, S., Kinzig, A., Liu, H., McCartney,
P.H., Nelson, B., Nelson, M.C., Redman, C.L., Simon, A.W., Spielmann, K.A., van der Leeuw, S.
2004
Enabling the Study of Long-Term Human and Social Dynamics: A Cyberinfrastructure for Archaeology. The National
Science Foundation, Human Social Dynamics Grant 0433959 (1 year).
Kintigh, K.W. (Ed.)
2006
The Promise and Challenge of Archaeological Data Integration. American Antiquity 71(3):567-578.