Strategic Environmental Archaeology Database (SEAD)

Buckland, Philip I.; Sjölander, Mattias; Eriksson, Erik J.

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-51726-1_833-2

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“…Data Compilation The structure of the SEAD has been prepared for the ingestion of dendrochronological results (Buckland et al 2018). In a pilot study (Meissner et al 2012), data on historical building timbers from the province of Småland, southern Sweden, were used to design a standardized multi-sheet Excel template for data entry (Fig.…”

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“…In a pilot study (Meissner et al 2012), data on historical building timbers from the province of Småland, southern Sweden, were used to design a standardized multi-sheet Excel template for data entry (Fig. 1), which was reviewed in a related project in Norway (Meissner & Brekke 2017) and further implemented in the VISEAD project (Buckland et al 2018). Similar routines have been created for geochemical and paleoecological data.…”

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“…In recent years, there has been a push toward linking databases using standard ontologies such as the CIDOC conceptual reference model (Meghini et al 2017), making data dispersed across many different systems and searchable through typical data portals. In the Old Wood in a New Light project, dendrochronological data from the four Swedish laboratories are now being integrated into and made available through the Strategic Environmental Archaeology Database (SEAD), an openaccess, multiproxy, research data infrastructure with the capacity to store a range of data types of relevance for archaeological science (Buckland et al 2018(Buckland et al , 2022. SEAD is hosted by the Environmental Archaeology Laboratory and Humlab, the humanities computing laboratory at Umeå University, Sweden.…”

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“…SEAD can manage an array of proxy data sources, including biological such as insects, plant macrofossils, and pollen, geoarchaeological, i.e., soil chemistry and physical properties, and technical data, e.g., ceramics, stable isotopes, and lipids (Buckland et al 2018). The project is fully open-access, and different open-source software and customized solutions are implemented to provide tools for the aggregation, analysis, and visualization of data via the SuperSEAD online interface (https://browser.sead.se/).…”

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Old Wood in a New Light: An Online Dendrochronological Database

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The Old Wood in a New Light database project focuses on the digitization and accessibility of the results of dendrochronological samples analyzed and archived at four Swedish university-based tree-ring laboratories at Lund University, Stockholm University, University of Gothenburg, and the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences. Collaboration with the Environmental Archaeology Laboratory and Humlab at Umeå University enables long-term open access to data, raw data, and metadata. In this project, we (1) systematically undertake large-scale entry and open access publication of results from wood samples scientifically analyzed and archived by Swedish laboratories and the associated metadata, into the Strategic Environmental Archaeology Database (SEAD; www.sead.se) research data infrastructure, and (2) actively promote the database as a resource for new and ongoing interdisciplinary research initiatives. Including dendrochronological data in SEAD infrastructure allows interdisciplinary studies that combine major scientific and societal questions. Building on a pilot study of construction timber from southern Sweden and adaptation of SEAD digitization workflows, more than 70 000 samples archived at the four dendrochronological laboratories are now being handled in the project. The broad coverage of research networks, stakeholder interaction, and strategic support from the cultural heritage community is guaranteed owing to the ongoing collaboration between laboratories and an established international and multidisciplinary reference group.

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“…As an initial test of the extensibility of the ELC API, the Occurrence endpoint has been extended to retrieve data from the Strategic Environmental Archaeology Database (SEAD, Buckland et al 2018).…”

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The EarthLife Consortium API: an extensible, open-source service for accessing fossil data and taxonomies from multiple community paleodata resources

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Goring³

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Frontiers of Biogeography

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Paleobiologists and paleoecologists interested in studying biodiversity dynamics over broad spatial and temporal scales have built multiple community-curated data resources, each emphasizing a particular spatial domain, timescale, or taxonomic group(s). This multiplicity of data resources is understandable, given the enormous diversity of life across Earth's history, but creates a barrier to achieving a truly global understanding of the diversity and distribution of life across time. Here we present the Earth Life Consortium Application Programming Interface (ELC API), a lightweight data service designed to search and retrieve fossil occurrence and taxonomic information from across multiple paleobiological resources. Key endpoints include Occurrences (returns spatiotemporal locations of fossils for selected taxa), Locales (returns information about sites with fossil data), References (returns bibliographic information), and Taxonomy (returns names of subtaxa associated with selected taxa). Data objects are returned as JSON or CSV format. The ELC API supports tectonic-driven shifts in geographic position back to 580 Ma using services from Macrostrat and GPlates. The ELC API has been implemented first for the Paleobiology Database and Neotoma Paleoecology Database, with a test extension to the Strategic Environmental Archaeology Database. The ELC API is designed to be readily extensible to other paleobiological data resources, with all endpoints fully documented and following open-source standards (e.g., Swagger, OGC). The broader goal is to help build an interlinked and federated ecosystem of paleobiological and paleoenvironmental data resources, which together provide paleobiologists, macroecologists, biogeographers, and other interested scientists with full coverage of the diversity and distribution of life across time. Highlights• Paleodiversity data are essential to understanding the ecology, evolution, and biogeography of life over Earth's entire history.• The Earth Life Consortium Application Programming Interface (ELC API) provides an easy-to-use framework for the automated search and retrieval of paleobiodiversity data across several existing community-curated data resources (CCDRs).

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The study of clay-built bloomery furnace shafts in Sweden – Ceramological analyses of an important part of iron production through 1500 years

Stilborg

2023

Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports

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Strategic Environmental Archaeology Database (SEAD)

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Old Wood in a New Light: An Online Dendrochronological Database

Old Wood in a New Light: An Online Dendrochronological Database

The EarthLife Consortium API: an extensible, open-source service for accessing fossil data and taxonomies from multiple community paleodata resources

The study of clay-built bloomery furnace shafts in Sweden – Ceramological analyses of an important part of iron production through 1500 years

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