Open joeroe opened 2 years ago
We might explore various resources for subclasses or related concepts for archaeological sites, such as settlements, hoards, burials, megaliths, and enclosures. Here are three valuable options: the German Archaeological Institute (DAI), Getty Vocabularies, and Wikidata.
Description: The iDAI.thesauri, part of the iDAI.world platform by the German Archaeological Institute (DAI), offers a comprehensive thesaurus of place names and archaeological sites, including classifications relevant to prehistoric archaeology.
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Usage Example: You can create a service in a Rails application to fetch and display data from the iDAI.gazetteer.
Description: The Getty Art & Architecture Thesaurus (AAT) is an internationally recognized vocabulary that includes terms related to archaeological sites and classifications.
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Usage Example: You can create a service in a Rails application to fetch terms from the Getty AAT API and integrate them into your application for standardized classification.
Description: Wikidata is an open and collaboratively edited knowledge base that provides structured data for various concepts, including archaeological sites. It allows users to query and explore data using the SPARQL query language.
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I don't think there's anything nearly specialised enough on Wikidata.
From Getty, there's a 'sites' hierarchy, but it does not look very useful: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/aat/300000809 (click the little tree icons to see what's under it).
From iDAI, there's 'Typ', but it's similarly incomplete/random: http://thesauri.dainst.org/en/concepts/_2d8fdbd0.html
Users are currently presented with a long and unstructured list to choose from when selecting the site type of a site, which is hard to navigate and doesn't promote particularly consistent or useful data. I wonder if we could add some structure here, for example:
Or, going in the other direction, abandon the idea of finding order in the chaos here, and make it a free text field instead of an association?
The underlying issue for me at least is that I don't understand exactly what site type is supposed to mean or what it's intended to be used for, especially in a global sense.