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LATE STONE AGE COMMUNITIES IN THE THAI-MALAY PENINSULA
Get PDFThe paper presents the results from archaeological surveys carried out in Songkhla and Phattalung Provinces, Thai-Malay Peninsula. The purpose of the survey was to evaluate the potential of selected areas for further study, and to contribute to the understanding of the Late Stone Age and early agricultural development in the area. Specific emphasis is put on evaluating the archaeological survey methodology employed during the survey, which was based on community involvement. The results from the survey are presented and discussed in terms of the prevailing discourse on agricultural development during the Late Stone Age. A review of the archaeology of the Thai-Malay Peninsula is given as a background. On the basis of more recent environmental and archaeological data, it is argued that the conventional model on agricultural development in the region needs to be reevaluated. Further, indigenous communities are suggested to have played a more significant role in the regional agricultural development than previously thought
THE EXCAVATION OF GUA PAYUNG, SOUTH KALIMANTAN, INDONESIA
Get PDFThis report discusses research funded by the Granucci Fund in the cave of Gua Payung, located in the southern karstic zone of the Meratus Mountains, southeastern Kalimantan, Indonesia. Gua Payung was investigated for comparison with the early Holocene results from Gua Babi in the northern Meratus Mountains. It provided evidence for a younger occupation than Gua Babi, and the results are described in this report
Metadata Capital via a linked data HIVE
Get PDFThis paper explores medatada capital via linked open metadata vocabularies, specifically via the HIVE (Helping Interdisciplinary Vocabulary Engineering) initiative in the U.S. DataNet Federation Consortium (DFC). Formulas representing 'Capital-sigma notation' and 'Succesive growth rates' are introduced as potential means for quanitifying metadata capital. A conclusion summarizes this paper and identitifies next steps
Level-Wise Exploration of Linked and Big Data Guided by Controlled Vocabularies and Folksonomies
Get PDFThis paper proposes a level-wise exploration of linked and big data guided by controlled vocabularies and folksonomies. We leverage techniques from both Reconstructability Analysis and cataloging and classification research to provide solutions that will structure and store large amounts of metadata, identify links between data, and explore data structures to produce models that will facilitate effective information retrieval
A Semantic Similarity Approach for Linking Tweet Messages to Library of Congress Subject Headings using Linked Resources: A Pilot Study
Get PDFThe objective of this study is to propose, implement, and test a framework of assigning relevant Library of Congress (LC) subject headings to tweet messages. In this study, the task of assigning LC headings is considered an automatic classification task that identifies relevant LC subject headings for given tweets. The classification task is conducted in two stages. In the first stage, tweets are clustered so that similar tweets are grouped together. In the second stage, the degree of similarity between a cluster of tweets and LC subject headings is measured by a popular similarity metric, Jaccard Coefficient (JC). In this pilot study, five selected tweet clusters and nine LC subject headings were carefully chosen and used. This pilot study demonstrates a positive result forthe proposed approach of identifying subject headings for tweets. In three cluster cases out of the five, JC selected the most relevant headings as the largest degrees of similarity. For the other two cases, JC was not successful in ranking the most relevant within the top three headings. In the next step, a more sophisticated clustering method will be explored and applied. Also, all possible LC subject headings will be employed to identify LC subjects for tweets in the next steps of this study
THE TIMBUL SITE, BALI, AND THE TRANSFORMATIONS PROJECT: MATERIAL REMAINS AND CONSIDERATIONS OF CHRONOLOGY AND TYPOLOGY
Get PDFThe project, Transformations in the Landscapes of South-Central Bali: An Archaeological Investigation of Early Balinese States, undertaken with Drs John Schoenfelder and I Wayan Ardika, was initiated to investigate, through a program of survey and excavation, changes and continuities in aspects of the political, religious and economic landscapes of south-central Bali during the mid-late first millennium AD and into the second millennium AD. This paper first presents a brief discussion of the theoretical background to the project and of the 2000 survey season, followed by a brief overview of the 2004 excavations at the Timbul site and a discussion of the dating of the several periods of occupation. Analysis of the smaller assemblage of non-earthenware artifacts, including the Chinese materials and their dating, as well as of the lithic artifacts, are next discussed. The paper then presents the morphological analyses of the earthenware pottery and also compares the resulting rim shape types and vessel shapes to those from other dated sites on Bali. The paper concludes with a discussion of the excavated Timbul deposits in the context of current archaeological knowledge of the relevant periods on Bali
