Organizational Plan
The initial structure has a Steering Committee advised by a Disciplinary Advisory Board and a Technical Advisory Board. However, we recognize that the structure of this organization should evolve in response to changing funding sources and policy environments designed to foster and guide the development of this cyberinfrastructure.
In response to recommendations at the Joint Meeting of the Steering Committee, Disciplinary and Technical Advisory Boards February 2008 in Santa Fe, the two Boards have been reorganized into a single Board of Directors.
- Steering Committee
Purpose. As the decision-making body of archaeoinformatics.org, the Steering Committee manages the design, seeks funding for, and directs the development of cyberinfrastructure initiatives in archaeology. It administers central functions necessary for the development and operation of the cyberinfrastructure. It seeks to work with professional organizations to influence relevant policies and to engage the larger community of archaeologists in these efforts.
Membership and Governance.The Steering Committee is initially comprised of the five institutional submitters of the planning proposal, each represented by a single individual. An institution may be added or removed from the Steering Committee with the majority agreement of the members. Members may also be added based on the recommendations of the Disciplinary Advisory Board. The chair will rotate annually through all Committee members unless a chair is otherwise unanimously agreed upon by the members. The initial steering committee includes:
Dr. Keith Kintigh, Arizona State University (ASU; email Kintigh) chair.
Dr. Fred Limp, University of Arkansas (UArk; email Limp)
Dr. Dean Snow, The Pennsylvania State University (PSU email Snow)
Dr. Tim Kohler, Washington State University (WSU; email Kohler)
Dr. Julian Richards, University of York (UY; email Richards)
Dr. Jeff Altschul, SRI Foundation (SRI; email Altschul) - Board of Directors
Purpose. The Board of Directors provides recommendations to the Steering Committee based on its evaluation of the plans for and review of the substantive results of the initiatives pursued by archaeoinformatics.org to insure that they are effectively addressing the needs of the profession. The Board reviews and evaluates the technical design and technical results of the cyberinfrastructure effort to insure effective development and appropriate interoperability with other science infrastructure efforts. It provides advice on the information engineering considerations of ontology development. It reviews technical staffing requests and provides recommendations to the Steering Committee. At a minimum, the Technical Advisory Board meets annually and produces a brief report after each meeting.
Board of Directors Membership
Brian Crane, Versar, Inc., Springfield, VA
Katherine (Kitty) Emery
Assistant Curator, Environmental Archaeology, Florida Museum of Natural History UF
Assistant Professor, Anthropology, University of Florida, Gainesville
Kitty F. Emery, Ph.D., is Assistant Curator of Environmental Archaeology at the Florida Museum of Natural History. She uses ancient animal and plant remains recovered from archaeological deposits in Central America to understand how the ancient Maya used (and sometimes abused) their natural world. Recent research has included compiling regional evidence of ancient Maya hunting and forest management as reflected in archaeological animal remains, and modern evidence for animal bone medicinal and ritual curation, and organic material discard, both with implications for animal remain recovery in the Maya region.
Sebastian Heath, Archaeological Institute of America/American Numismatics Society, New York
Eric Kansa, University of California, Berkeley/Alexandria Archive Institute, Berkeley/San Francisco
Francis (Frank) McManamon, National Park Service, Washington DC
Fraser Neiman
Director of Archaeology, Monticello, Virginia
Lecturer, Departments of Anthropology and Architectural History, University of Virginia.
Fraser Neiman directs ongoing archaeological research at Monticello
(www.monticello.org <http://www.monticello.org/> ) into the ecological and social dynamics of the early-modern Chesapeake and the larger Atlantic world of which it was a part. His lab is home to the Digital Archaeological Archive of Comparative Slavery (www.daacs.org <http://www.daacs.org/> ). DAACS is an experiment in the use of IT and the internet to share detailed archaeological data, encourage comparative analysis, leverage collaboration, and accelerate progress in understanding the evolution of slave societies of the Chesapeake, Carolinas, and the Caribbean. He teaches courses in quantitative methods, historical archaeology, and archaeological theory at the University of Virginia (www.people.virginia.edu/~fn9r).
Vincas (Vin) Steponaitis
Director, Research Laboratories of Archaeology
Professor, Department of Anthropology , University of North Carolina
In collaboration with Steve Davis and others, Steponaitis worked on a variety of projects exploring the frontiers of digital publication in archaeology. The most elaborate and visible of these projects is a CD-ROM entitled Excavating Occaneechi Town, published by UNC Press in 1998. They have also developed a new edition of this work that will be formally published by UNC Press on the World Wide Web. A "beta" version of this new edition can be found at www.ibiblio.org/dig.
The history and political economy of Moundville, a large Mississippian town in Alabama that was occupied from the 11th to the 17th centuries AD, have long been subjects of Steponaitis' research. His current research attempts to reconstruct patterns of craft production and trade by attempting to identify the geological sources of the raw materials used to make "prestige goods" at Moundville.
Associate Professor Egyptian Archaeology, Dept. of
NELC, and Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at UCLA
Willeke Wendrich leads a large team of archaeologists and archaeological specialist in the study of land and water use, and the development of agriculture in the Fayum (Egypt). The research program focuses on the prehistoric and Greaco-Roman remains in the region, and the work includes rescue excavations and cultural heritage management of the ancient landscape. As the Editor-in-chief of the online UCLA Encyclopedia of Egyptology and Faculty Director of the UCLA Digital Humanities Incubator Group, Wendrich is closely involved in digital publication and archaeological data management.
Phillip (Phil) Walker, University of California, Santa Barbara
Thomas (Tom) Whitley
Vice President of Brockington & Associates, Inc. , Norcross, GA
Dr. Whitley has specialized in GIS applications to Archaeology since the late 1980s. This has included small, medium, and large scale spatial analyses and predictive models in 17 different states. He is Vice President of Brockington and Associates, Inc., one of the largest CRM firms in the Southeast, where he manages the Atlanta Office. His current research focus is on complex GIS and 3D modeling of cognitive and other interpretive prehistoric/historic landscapes.
Worthy Martin
Associate Professor and Associate Chair of Computer Science, University of Virginia
Associate Director of the Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities, University of Virginia
Worthy Martin joined the Department of Computer Science at the University of Virginia in 1982 after completing his Ph.D. degree in Computer Science at the University of Texas, Austin, specializing in computer vision. He has published papers in dynamic scene analysis, visual acquisition of volumetric models, combinatorial optimization with evolutionary algorithms and visual control in robotic systems. His interests in image analysis and complex data structures lead to a research appointment with the Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities (IATH) in 2000.
Through IATH he has participated in numerous digital humanities projects, including The Monastery Plan of St. Gall project, The Chaco Digital Initiative, The Sustaining Digital Scholarship project, The Salem Witch Trial Archive project, and The Uncle Tom's Cabin & American Culture project (see http://www.iath.virginia.edu/). The common thread to these projects is the design and implementation of thematic repositories with rich interconnections among many levels of information components within the repositories.
Herbert Van de Sompel, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM
Herbert Van de Sompel
Team Leader, Digital Library Research & Prototyping Team
Los Alamos National Laboratory, Research Library
Herbert Van de Sompel graduated in Mathematics and Computer Science at Ghent University, and in 2000, obtained a Ph.D. there. For many years, he was Head of Library Automation at Ghent University. After having left Ghent in 2000, he has been Visiting Professor in Computer Science at Cornell University, and Director of e-Strategy and Programmes at the British Library. Currently, he is the team leader of the Digital Library Research and Prototyping Team at the Research Library of the Los Alamos National Laboratory. The Team does research regarding various aspects of scholarly communication in the digital age, including information infrastructure, interoperability, digital preservation and indicators for the assessment of the quality of units of scholarly communication. Herbert has played a major role in creating the Open Archives Protocol for Metadata Harvesting, the OpenURL Framework for Context-Sensitive Services, the SFX linking server, and the info URI. With Carl Lagoze, he is currently leading the Open Archives Initiative Object Re-Use and Exchange effort.
What's New
Mellon All-Projects Meeting: Archaeology, New York, March 2008
View the Archaeoinformatics Presentation
Joint Disciplinary and Technical Advisory Board Meeting, Santa Fe, February 2008
Joint Disciplinary and Technical Advisory Board Final Report
Technical Board Recommendations
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Archaeoinformatics.org
Formation of the Board of Directors
Evaluation of Existing Initiatives
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Joint Disciplinary and Technical Advisory Board Report
Take our Survey- 'Current Conditions and Needs in the Field'
New and Archived Articles and Abstracts
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