Achievement

IGERT-TEECH Trainee Matthew Vincent is developing OpenDig, a data acquisition framework critical for next-generation cyper-archaeology. Traditional "Dirt Archaeology" is a discipline that disrupts the majority of the evidence as it moves through its investigation, by permanently altering the site. This problem has made holistic data recording an essential feature of any successful project. Unfortunately, archaeology still lacks an integrative cyber-system, supporting the acquisition, processing, correlation, analysis, archiving, curation and dissemination of massive cultural heritage data records. OpenDig is introducing the needed "big-data" acquisition methodology, pairing dirt with digital archaeology, while building on 40 years of conventional data recording experience developed through the Madaba Plains Project (MPP) in Jordan.