Digital public archaeology: Excavating data from digs done decades ago and connecting with today’s communities
Ph.D. Candidate in Archaeology Emily Fletcher discusses digital archaeology and her experience with the Gulkana site in Alaska with The Conversation.
"Archaeology has a data management problem, and it is not unique to the Gulkana Site. U.S. federal regulations and disciplinary standards require archaeologists to preserve records of their excavations, but many of these records have never been analyzed. Archaeologists refer to this problem as the 'legacy data backlog.'"
Read Fletcher's full article at The Conversation.