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Title | An archaeologist at the Smithsonian collaboratin= g with a biologist at another research institution |
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Primary Actor | A researcher |
Scope | All researchers |
Level | got no clue what this means |
Story | An archeologist in Panama has built a large c= ollection of digital data that represents everything they have excavated at= a particular site, which is managed as a large collection of Fedora object= s that are related as on large graph. For each trash pile the archaeologist= identifies, one tabular data object is created for all of the fish bones t= hat are found, one for animal bones, shell fragments, pottery fragments, et= c. Each row in the data represents one find, identifies the species or type= , etc. The data file as a whole has descriptive metadata, but takes m= ost of its meaning from its position in the graph. For example, the tabular= data object is the child of an object that describes the trash pile, ident= ifies its date, speculates about what the trash pile related to, etc. That = object is in turn the child of an object that describes the larger context = in which the trash pile was found, which in turn has child objects that des= cribe other features like dwellings, tombs, etc. The archeologist not= ices that some of the bones are from an animal that is from a region from a= n island off the coast from this inland site, in a trash pile he determines= to be 6,000 years old. He contacts a friend who is studying that kind of a= nimal species in Panama. The friend is studying that species' distribution = in current day Panama, but this is interesting evidence that gives some bas= eline information about the history of the species in the larger region. Th= e biologist links the tabular data object as evidence under the graph of re= search data that he is building. The full meaning, veracity and authe= nticity of the evidence that the biologist is using is tied to the durabili= ty of the original research project's graph, and in turn becomes data that = can be used in some other context.
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