Lotje, 2 months ago

@josh Hi! Yes, I would love to talk about that stuff! You can message me here if you want. If you prefer email, my SI email is GovaertsL. I also have a gmail. It's my first name and last name with a period between them at gmail. I left Twitter but my account is still there so you could also still DM me there (I THINK!) https://twitter.com/Govaerts_Lotte.

josh, 2 months ago

@Lotje

I will! I hope you like molluscs too ... sorry for the spam ... HA!

ecology_revised, 2 months ago

@josh @Lotje Hi Somehow your post went to the entire local feed here, but this is a good thing ? I'm a theoretical ecologist working on methods to simulate (past/future) population states of exploited marine species / I also deal with these issues of how to re-use historical observations from past ecological/archeological/historical sources and would love to learn more about the DINAA project- Jennifer

josh, 2 months ago

@ecology_revised @Lotje

Hi Dr. Jennifer! I sent that message to Lotje publicly in the clear because I'm not sure what the privacy settings are on Lotje's direct messages and I wanted to be certain it is received. So it showed up in the FediScience feed :-)

Jennifer, here are a couple of queries in DINAA:

1. "Shell" query all records, about 25K sites - https://opencontext.org/query/Americas/United+States?cat=oc-gen-cat-loc-or-context---oc-gen-cat-site&geodeep=10&proj=52-digital-index-of-north-american-archaeology-dinaa&type=subjects&q=shell#aq=facet-oc-gen-category---oc-gen-cat-site/ovgrd=oc/zm=4/ov=sqr/lat=37.44/lng=-99.18

2. "Shell" query, records with literature references, 547 sites - https://opencontext.org/query/Americas/United+States?cat=oc-gen-cat-loc-or-context---oc-gen-cat-site&proj=52-digital-index-of-north-american-archaeology-dinaa&prop=dc-terms-is-referenced-by&q=shell&type=subjects#aq=dc-terms-is-referenced-by/ovgrd=oc/zm=4/ov=sqr/lat=37.72/lng=-99.14

DINAA keyword query for "shell"

josh, 2 months ago

@ecology_revised @Lotje

Jennifer, you have some further options to tailor the queries:

1. geographically filter either query for coastal areas more likely to contain marine shell

2. use some of the "shell" containing strings that appear when you type shell in the search box

3. potentially try species names that might be listed in data records without the word "shell"

josh, 2 months ago

@ecology_revised @Lotje

Jennifer, FWIW here is a query for "Strombus" which yields 31 sites, then filtered by "Is Referenced By" which winnows the yield to 2.

Click on the "Item Records" tab to see specific archaeological site records for any query

Within an archaeological site record use the "External References" tab to find literature and other references to the site that we are aware are available.

Within an archaeological site record use the "External References" tab to find literature and other references to the site that we are aware are available.

ecology_revised, 2 months ago

@josh @Lotje Hello ! This is a fantastic tool & Thank you so much for sending on all the details about how it works! I’ve been really motivated by how archaeological projects conserve context and I think this is going to be a tremendous resource for several of our projects. I hope it expands like GBIF -