ropensci/archeology

R clients for open archeology data

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archeology's Issues

Mantis - Numismatics database

http://numismatics.org/search/

a new website, and API link in the navbar: http://numismatics.org/search/apis

e.g.,
http://numismatics.org/collection/1995.34.5.jsonld
http://numismatics.org/collection/1995.34.5.xml

OxCal and other radiocarbon date calibration and analysis services

OxCal is a very widely used web service for radiocarbon date calibration and analysis. A package to hook into it from R would be very useful, I can't see any specifications for an API. BCal is a related service, but it also doesn't have an obvious API. This lack of an API for both of these may mean they are dead ends for an R package, but perhaps you can see something I can't?

There's also Bacon and clam which are already integrated into R, but perhaps could be packaged more conveniently.

Canadian archeological radiocarbon database

http://www.canadianarchaeology.ca/localc14/c14results.php

Seems no way to bulk download/ftp, or API

Mallet

Both Ben and Shawn mentioned more built on mallet would be good to do. I don't have experience in Java, so I don't think I could help that much here.

Perseus Digital Library

http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/opensource/download

Open Context

http://opencontext.org/

Have an API, quite accessible

The Digital Archaeological Record (tDAR)

http://www.tdar.org/

Less ready for accessing via an API...

The Old Bailey

http://www.oldbaileyonline.org/

Archeology data service UK - radiocarbon data?

http://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/archives/view/c14_cba/

http://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/archsearch/
http://www.britarch.ac.uk/info/c14.html
http://users.ox.ac.uk/~orau/dl_index.html

Database or religious history

http://www.religiondatabase.arts.ubc.ca/

Chris says not quite online yet

New Zealand radiocarbon data

http://www.waikato.ac.nz/cgi-bin/nzcd/search.pl

Seems they allow a kmz download...

Çatalhöyük Living Archive

https://digitalhumanities.stanford.edu/%C3%A7atalh%C3%B6y%C3%BCk-living-archive-0

Human relations area files

http://hraf.yale.edu/

Seems super locked down, probably a no go

Museum metadata

See also:

Started an R pkg for museum metadata, https://github.com/ropensci/musemeta

idea from @shawngraham

could fall in various academic camps I guess, including archeology...