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The World Wide reference collection: Zooarchaeological Twitter and the case for an international zooarchaeology database
Fitzpatrick, Alexandra L.
Fitzpatrick, Alexandra L.
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Social media platforms such as Twitter have allowed for a substantial increase in collaboration between academics, allowing access to information and advice from one side of the world to the other. This is especially true among both archaeologists and zooarchaeologists, who often turn to Twitter with faunal bones that they have been unable to identify so that another pair of zooarchaeological eyes can help. In many cases, Twitter has allowed access to reference collections that would have otherwise been inaccessible due to distance and monetary reasons. Based on numerous experiences in using the zooarchaeology community on Twitter to successfully identify archaeofaunal bones, this paper proposes that the next logical step for continuing collaboration among zooarchaeologists to is to develop an international digital database of faunal bone references, crowdsourced from reference collections of zooarchaeologists and institutions around the world. This database could bring zooarchaeology into the Open Access movement that will arguably define the future of archaeology in the digital world.
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Fitzpatrick A (2018) The World Wide reference collection: Zooarchaeological Twitter and the case for an international zooarchaeology database. Paper presented at the 2018 Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology (CAA) Twitter Conference. 19-23 Mar 2018, Tubingen, Germany.
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