For the 3rd year in a row, the Center for Digital Antiquity (Digital Antiquity) collaborates with The Society for American Archaeology (SAA) to publish, make accessible, and preserve the abstracts and presentations from the Annual Meeting of the SAA. Working with SAA, Digital Antiquity staff have uploaded to tDAR all the abstracts for the symposia and presentations that were part of the recent SAA annual meeting in Vancouver.
If you were a presenter at the 2017 SAA meeting you can uploaded your presentation and supporting data to tDAR at no cost. The symposium and presentation abstracts are already uploaded and in tDAR. Promote your research and presentations, help other researchers find and cite your SAA presentation by making it available today! Steps on how to upload your presentation can be found here, for your convenience.
Note that a similar arrangement exists for presentations for the past two SAA annual meetings, 2015 San Francisco and 2016 Orlando. You still can add your presentations made at either of these meetings in the same manner.
In March of this year, Digital Antiquity and the SAA renewed and updated the formal agreement between them to promote good practice in the care, curation, preservation, and use of digital data. The new agreement expands the SAA membership categories for which annual “no cost” uploads of files to tDAR are available, while also increasing the number of file uploads from 3 to 10. Now, in addition to student members being eligible for the uploads, SAA members who are retirees, members of Tribal Historical Preservation Office programs, and members from countries that qualify for “discounted membership rates” will receive this additional benefit of SAA membership.
These new benefits for SAA members in the above listed categories of SAA allow individuals to upload up to 10 files (up to 100 MB) per membership year at no-charge to them. We encourage members to take advantage of this opportunity to preserve and promote their work for the purpose of education and re-use by other archaeologists. Our common goal with SAA is to create a wealth of discoverable, accessible, and useful data for the archaeological research community.
When you are ready to take advantage of these exciting benefits please email membership@saa.org to receive your SAA membership benefits voucher. At Digital Antiquity, we look forward to preserving and protecting your archaeological information for re-use in new investigations and research.