For the computer-based analysis of archaeological data, see Computational archaeology.
There are two conceptualisations of data archaeology, the technical definition and the social science definition.
Data archaeology (also data archeology) in the technical sense refers to the art and science of recovering computer data encoded and/or encrypted in now obsolete media or formats. Data archaeology can also refer to recovering information from damaged electronic formats after natural disasters or human error.
It entails the rescue and recovery of old data trapped in outdated, archaic or obsolete storage formats such as floppy disks, magnetic tape, punch cards and transforming/transferring that data to more usable formats.
Data archaeology in the social sciences usually involves an investigation into the source and history of datasets and the construction of these datasets. It involves mapping out the entire lineage of data, its nature and characteristics, its quality and veracity and how these affect the analysis and interpretation of the dataset.
The findings of performing data archaeology affect the level to which the conclusions parsed from data analysis can be trusted.[1]
The term data archaeology originally appeared in 1993 as part of the Global Oceanographic Data Archaeology and Rescue Project (GODAR). The original impetus for data archaeology came from the need to recover computerised records of climatic conditions stored on old computer tape, which can provide valuable evidence for testing theories of climate change. These approaches allowed the reconstruction of an image of the Arctic that had been captured by the Nimbus 2 satellite on September 23, 1966, in higher resolution than ever seen before from this type of data.[2]
NASA also utilises the services of data archaeologists to recover information stored on 1960s-era vintage computer tape, as exemplified by the Lunar Orbiter Image Recovery Project (LOIRP).[3]
^Kitchin, Rob (2022). The Data Revolution. Sage.
^Techno-archaeology rescues climate data from early satellites Archived 2010-11-26 at the Wayback Machine U.S. National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC), January 2010
^LOIRP Overview NASA website November 14, 2008 Archived
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