Hidden Passage:

Gates, Jennifer E.

doi:10.2307/j.ctv6gqr9h.35

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“…Beyond the challenges posed by semi-automation, spatial definition can be unclear because not all pathways are equally visible or recognizable. The physical evidence for pathways can range from monumental constructed roads, such as the Maya sacbe (Chase et al 2001;Shaw 2012) or Roman imperial roads (Laurence 1999), to ephemeral and unobtrusive trails without any signs of deliberate construction that make use of existing natural landscape features as movement corridors (Gates 2006). These have very different morphological and spatial properties, as well as lifespans, which affects their incorporation into an observational dataset.…”

Section: Characterizing the Observational Datamentioning

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Developing FAIR Ontological Pathways: Linking Evidence of Movement in Lidar to Models of Human Behaviour

Nuninger

Opitz

Verhagen

et al. 2020

Journal of Computer Applications in Archaeology

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This paper proposes an ontological approach to connect the archaeological topographic evidence for movement in the landscape which can be derived from interpretation and spatial analysis of airborne lidar data with models of movement derived from modeling exercises such as Agent Based Modelling or Cost Path Modelling. This computational ontology enables the investigation of movement and its topographic manifestations in the landscape at various spatio-temporal scales. It creates an explicit framework for accessing meaningful information about movement generated through research using both detection and modelling-led approaches. Developing explicit computational frameworks to provide meaningful context is critical, particularly as remote sensing and modelling projects increase in scale and complexity. The process of developing a computational ontology exposes a deeper underlying issue, and one applicable to many topics we address as archaeologists: if we begin to unpack the concept of 'movement' it is readily apparent that it is a complex phenomenon, like many human habits, and studying it requires drawing together a variety of types of physical evidence and multiple, often competing, theoretical models of human processes and practices. If we wish to make archaeological 'data' on movement available, how do we create appropriate contextual information -really useful metadata -so that this data can be incorporated into the variety of studies for which knowledge of movement is relevant? This is essentially the challenge posed broadly by the FAIR principles, and in particular by the principle of interoperability, which suggests that we "use a formal, accessible, shared, and broadly applicable language for knowledge representation". Rather than simply seeking to fulfill the requirements of an arbitrary standard, attempting to meet the challenge of interoperability provides an impetus and opportunity to attempt to bridge the gap between data and model, and to reconsider how we conceive and represent knowledge in archaeological digital data and modelling projects. This kind of computational ontology, we suggest, can serve as the key for making the data from both these sources actually FAIR.

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Section: Characterizing the Observational Datamentioning

confidence: 99%