In 2016 the Archaeology Data Service (ADS) was 20 years old. Since its birth the ADS has
had to respond to rapid changes in technology, as well as major cultural and organizational …

The amount of archaeological literature is growing rapidly. Until recently, these data were
only accessible through metadata search. We implemented a text retrieval engine for a large …

Field archaeology only recently developed centralized systems for data curation,
management, and reuse. Data documentation guidelines, standards, and ontologies have …

Archaeology has wandered into exciting but daunting territory. It faces floods of new
evidence about the human past that are largely digital, frequently spatial, increasingly open …

The rise of the World Wide Web represents one of the most significant transitions in
communications since the printing press or even since the origins of writing. To Open …

This paper reviews the importance of standards in archaeological computing and traces
their development, and the tensions surrounding their deployment. Three categories of …

The article presents a method for automatic semantic indexing of archaeological grey‐
literature reports using empirical (rule‐based) Information Extraction techniques in …

Advances in text mining and natural language processing methodologies have the potential
to productively inform historical archaeology and oral history research. However, text mining …

Archaeological data and research results are essential to addressing such fundamental
questions as the origins of human culture; the origin, waxing, and waning of civilizations and …

This study investigates the semantic integration of data extracted from archaeological
datasets with information extracted via natural language processing (NLP) across different …