id
	12250
Url
	https://chloe.cnr.it/s/BiDiAr/item/12250
Resource template
	Academic Article
Resource class
	bibo:AcademicArticle
Title
	Big Data in Maritime Archaeology: Challenges and Prospects from the Middle East and North Africa
Creator
	Andreou, Georgia M.
	Nikolaus, Julia
	Westley, Kieran
	el Safadi, Crystal
	Blue, Lucy
	Smith, Ash
	Breen, Colin
Date
	2022
Language
	eng
Abstract
	The Middle East and North Africa have witnessed a surfeit of geospatial data collection projects, resulting in big databases with powerful deductive capacities. Despite the valuable insights and expansive evidentiary record offered by those databases, emphasis on anthropogenic threats to cultural heritage, combined with a limited integration of local perspectives, have raised important questions on the ethical and epistemological dimensions of big data. This paper contextualizes maritime cultural heritage (MCH) in those debates through the lens of the Maritime Endangered Archaeology in the Middle East and North Africa project (MarEA). MarEA is developing a unique for the region database for MCH designed to amalgamate a baseline record emphasizing spatial location, state of preservation, and vulnerability. This record will form a stepping stone toward finer-grained research on MCH and its interdisciplinary intersections. It is also developed as an information resource to facilitate local collaborators in prioritizing site monitoring and developing documentation, management, and mitigation strategies.
Is Part Of
	Journal of Field Archaeology
Cited by
	11051
Doi
	https://doi.org/10.1080/00934690.2022.2028082
Issn
	0093-4690
Issue
	3
Pages
	131-148
Short title
	Big Data in Maritime Archaeology
Volume
	47
Homepage
	https://www.zotero.org/groups/5293298/bidiar/items/X6II6CW3/item-list

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