The COVID-19 pandemic unleashed during 2020 implied a change in the way of doing archaeology on a global scale. In Argentina, in particular, activities had to move to the domestic sphere and, most times, the possibility of carrying out fieldwork, material analysis and collection management in the usual workplaces was lost. This practice showed the need for repositories, libraries and online databases that would allow access to archaeological information. Suquía, the institutional repository of IDACOR, has been compiling and disseminating archaeological information since 2016, although it had not yet developed its capacity to include databases that would allow meta-analysis of the information hosted. So, the needs raised by the lockdown led to implementing an action aimed at incorporating data from 1938 archaeological sites in the Province of Córdoba (Argentina) together with IDACORDIG (an implementation of the Arches software) which links this set to a spatial database, creating a gazetteer of archaeological sites for the region. This integration is the first of its kind in Argentina, and fosters an increase in primary information and grey literature visibility, together with publications preprints and prints that allow continuity in the study of archaeology on a regional scale. In this presentation we will characterize this process and its technical aspects to aware on the potential of this type of platform for its integration into digital infrastructures of global impact.

1. ARIADNEplus is funded by the European Commission’s Horizon 2020 Programme
INTEGRATING ARCHAEOLOGICAL DATA FROM
DIGITAL REPOSITORIES AND WEB-BASED
SPATIAL DATABASES. IDACORDIG AND SUQUIA
IN PANDEMIC TIMES
Andrés Darío IZETA & Roxana CATTÁNEO
INSTITUTO DE ANTROPOLOGÍA DE CÓRDOBA (IDACOR), CONICET/UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE CÓRDOBA, ARGENTINA
• “ARIADNEplus” (H2020 Programme, contract no. H2020-INFRAIA-2018-1-823914)”
• “Proyecto integral de investigación, preservación y transferencia del patrimonio del Instituto de Antropología de Córdoba, UNC-CONICET” Proyecto PUE
22920160100024CO
• Proyecto SPU-SECyT UNC 2020-32520200100030CB “Preservación y puesta en valor de colecciones científicas patrimonializadas en museos, bibliotecas y
repositorios digitales abiertos”.

2. ARIADNEplus is funded by the European Commission’s Horizon 2020 Programme
Suquía Digital Institutional Repository
24 collections
12018 ítems
0.5 million views
Ranked # 4th Argentinian
repositories (Ministry of Education)

3. ARIADNEplus is funded by the European Commission’s Horizon 2020 Programme
BADACOR was created between 2009 and 2012 as part of a project at the
provincial level (PID 0013/2009). With one update in 2015 and another in 2020
and continuing.
It integrates spatial data (published and / or public data), normalized descriptive
metadata, origin of the data (bibliography), chronologies and associated material
culture.
Dublin Core metadata scheme / CIDOC-CRM; SNRD Guidelines. Geodetic
coordinate system WGS84, Getty AAT standardized list of terms, localities
(datos.gob.ar), IDECOR GIS layers, RENYCOA Site Single Record Form (FUR).
BADACOR à Contains sites descriptions, documentation, reports, publications,
etc.
IDACORDig à Contains site location + CIDOC-CRM description
Wikidata à Contains site location + structured description

4. ARIADNEplus is funded by the European Commission’s Horizon 2020 Programme

5. ARIADNEplus is funded by the European Commission’s Horizon 2020 Programme
IDACORDig
CIDOC-CRM
Georreferenciación
à exacta/no exacta
à exacta : geomasking

6. ARIADNEplus is funded by the European Commission’s Horizon 2020 Programme
2004 archaeological sites

7. ARIADNEplus is funded by the European Commission’s Horizon 2020 Programme

8. ARIADNEplus is funded by the European Commission’s Horizon 2020 Programme
SPARQL à SPARQL Protocol and RDF Query Language
P31 à “instance of”
wd:Q839954 à “archaeological site”
wdt:P625 à “coordinate location”
Total archaeological sites à Wikidata 34537 (100,00%)
Córdoba Province archaeological sites à Wikidata 2004 (5,80%)
Argentina (other archaeological sites) à Wikidata 47 (0,13%)

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BADACOR
https://museoantropologia.unc.edu.ar/
http://blogs.ffyh.unc.edu.ar/pad-ongamira/
https://blogs.unc.edu.ar/lammal/
https://idacor.conicet.gov.ar/
Researchers
Librarians
Archivists
IT
Digital archaeologists
Conservators
Open data available to diverse communities
Suquía
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IDACORDig