2020
DOI: 10.5334/jcaa.51
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Whose Data Is It Anyway? Lessons in Data Management and Sharing from Resurrecting and Repurposing Lidar Data for Archaeology Research in Honduras

Abstract: As a response to Hurricane Mitch and the resulting widespread loss of life and destruction of Honduran infrastructure in 1998, the United States Geological Survey (USGS) conducted the first wide-area airborne lidar topographic mapping project in Central America. The survey was executed by the Bureau of Economic Geology at the University of Texas at Austin (BEG) in 2000, and it was intended to cover 240 square kilometers distributed among 15 flood-prone communities throughout Honduras. The original data process… Show more

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“…Archaeologists working outside of North America have encountered this problem, particularly when acquiring aerial data from satellites not owned by the countries being studied. Such datasets are considered the legal property of the institutions that pay for the research, but an increasing number of archaeologists suggest that local communities ought to be afforded some level of "moral ownership" (e.g., Fernandez-Diaz and Cohen 2020). Providing moral ownership to local communities recognizes that remote sensing datasets are often the only way in which important aspects of cultural heritage can be accessed.…”
Section: Data Accessibility and Ownershipmentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…Archaeologists working outside of North America have encountered this problem, particularly when acquiring aerial data from satellites not owned by the countries being studied. Such datasets are considered the legal property of the institutions that pay for the research, but an increasing number of archaeologists suggest that local communities ought to be afforded some level of "moral ownership" (e.g., Fernandez-Diaz and Cohen 2020). Providing moral ownership to local communities recognizes that remote sensing datasets are often the only way in which important aspects of cultural heritage can be accessed.…”
Section: Data Accessibility and Ownershipmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The danger of pitting NDN perspectives against remote sensing projects is heightened when archaeologists attempt to address large-scale questions about migration, cultural affinity, economic modeling, sacred landscapes, and societal structures engaged by ancestral peoples. Many of these questions are already addressed within NDN knowledge systems, and any attempts to consider them without centering existing knowledge perpetuates scientific colonialism (Nicholas and Hollowell 2010) exacerbating, longstanding tensions between opposing communities, as defined by Vine Deloria Jr. (1997).…”
Section: Conflict With Traditional Knowledge and Ndn Sciencementioning
confidence: 99%
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“…Recently, a lot of attention has been focussed on ethics in relation to big data (e.g., Howey et al, 2020;VanValkenburg & Dufton, 2020), particularly for collecting and maintaining large datasets. Specific concerns have also been raised about how archaeologists collect, use, reproduce and store LiDAR data (Cohen et al, 2020;Fernandez-Diaz et al, 2018;Fernandez-Diaz & Cohen, 2020). While these themes apply to all remote sensing datasets, the use of satellite imagery has the additional facet of not requiring physical access to an area, thereby sidestepping the necessity of a direct relationship with national and local stakeholders of the territory under investigation.…”
Section: Remote Sensing Ethics In Archaeologymentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Regarding LiDAR and archaeology specifically, a recent special issue of Journal of Computer Applications in Archaeology called 'Reflections on Archaeological Lidar', and previous articles by the contributing authors, examined a wide range of issues related to increasing collection and use of LiDAR data and its place within archaeological practice (Chase et al, 2020;Cohen et al, 2020;Fernandez-Diaz & Cohen, 2020;Fernandez-Diaz et al, 2018). More generally, an issue of the Journal of Field Archaeology from 2020 also provides a range of articles that examine various aspects of 'big data' in archaeology including revising our understanding of a 'site' now that regional-scale analysis is possible as well as data governance policies (Casana, 2020;Gupta et al, 2020;Howey et al, 2020;McCoy, 2020;VanValkenburgh & Dufton, 2020).…”
Section: Lidar and Ethical Archaeological Practicementioning
confidence: 99%