University of Victoria - Zooarchaeology Lab Collection

Occurrence Specimen
Latest version published by University of Victoria on Oct 16, 2024 University of Victoria
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Publication date:
16 October 2024
Published by:
University of Victoria
License:
CC-BY 4.0

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Description

The University of Victoria’s Zooarchaeology Lab (UVicZL) is a comparative osteology collection designed to support the accurate identification of skeletal animal remains from archaeological sites in on the Northwest Coast of North America. The collection is comprised of 2,922 animals compiled over the last 40 years. A substantial percentage of animal bones archaeological sites on the Northwest Coast have been identified here. The comparative collection continues to be used by students, researchers, contractors, and community members engaged in osteological identification.This dataset contains the originally documented specimen attribute data for mammals, fish, birds, and invertebrates in the collection. A substantial curation process was undertaken to transform a hand-written primary card catalogue into this open science setting. Our aim is to make these data more accessible and connected to other intiatives that consider ecological and Indigenous knowledge, as well as other zooarchaeology collections and natural history museums. We see value in considering the FAIR principals of open science to help increase awareness and use of the collection but also to consider the potential role of these data for Indigenous community based research and collaboration.

Data Records

The data in this occurrence resource has been published as a Darwin Core Archive (DwC-A), which is a standardized format for sharing biodiversity data as a set of one or more data tables. The core data table contains 2,922 records.

This IPT archives the data and thus serves as the data repository. The data and resource metadata are available for download in the downloads section. The versions table lists other versions of the resource that have been made publicly available and allows tracking changes made to the resource over time.

Versions

The table below shows only published versions of the resource that are publicly accessible.

How to cite

Researchers should cite this work as follows:

McKenzie Kathryn; McKechnie, Iain (2024). University of Victoria - Zooarchaeology Lab Collection. Version 1.12. University of Victoria. Occurrence dataset. https://doi.org/10.5886/jej09d

Rights

Researchers should respect the following rights statement:

The publisher and rights holder of this work is University of Victoria. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY 4.0) License.

GBIF Registration

This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: 5b11525e-c116-48a0-956f-4147ecd97237.  University of Victoria publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by Canada Biodiversity Information Facility.

Keywords

Occurrence; Specimen; Occurrence

External data

The resource data is also available in other formats

GBIF Data Portal https://www.gbif.org/dataset/5b11525e-c116-48a0-956f-4147ecd97237 UTF-8 HTML
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Contacts

Kathryn McKenzie
  • Metadata Provider ●
  • Originator
  • Researcher
Zooarchaeology Lab, Anthropology Department, University of Victoria
Victoria
BC
CA
Iain McKechnie
  • Point Of Contact
  • Associate Professor
Anthropology Department, University of Victoria
Victoria
BC
CA
Iain McKechnie
  • Point Of Contact
  • Associate Professor
Department of Anthropology, University of Victoria
  • Cornett Building Room B222 3800 Finnerty Road (Ring Road)
V8P 5C2 Victoria
BC
CA
  • 250-721-7351
Stephanie Calce
  • Custodian Steward
  • Senior Lab Instructor
University of Victoria
  • University of Victoria, Cornett Building B222, 3800 Finnerty Road
V8P 5C2 Victoria
British Columbia
CA

Geographic Coverage

Northwest Coast of North America

Bounding Coordinates South West [12.73, -176.574], North East [70.336, 178.983]

Taxonomic Coverage

N/A

Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Chordata
Class Actinopterygii, Mammalia
Order Scorpaeniforms, Stomiiformes, Osmeriformes, Carnivora, Pleuronectiformes, Scorpaeniformes, Perciformes
Family Ammodytidae, Otariidae, Hexagrammidae, Cottidae, Osmeridae, Mustelidae, Stomiidae, Pleuronectidae, Stichaeidae

Temporal Coverage

Start Date / End Date 1974-01-09 / 2016-12-03

Project Data

A thesis to be submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for a degree of MASTER OF ARTS in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Victoria by Kathryn E. McKenzie, 2024

Title Converging Open Science and Respecting Indigenous Knowledge to Enrich Capacity of Zooarchaeological Comparative Collections: An Example from the University of Victoria
Funding Mitacs Accelerate Internship, Hakai Institute, NSERC Discovery Grant, UVic Department of Anthropology, UVic Graduate Student Society

Additional Metadata

The overwhelming bulk of the work for creating this dataset is UVIC graduate student Kathryn McKenzie in a forthcoming masters thesis.

Purpose
Maintenance Description This dataset contains the originally documented specimen attribute data for mammals, fish, birds, and invertebrates in the collection. A substantial digitation and curation process was undertaken to transform a hand-written primary card catalogue into this open science setting.
Alternative Identifiers 10.5886/jej09d
5b11525e-c116-48a0-956f-4147ecd97237
https://data.canadensys.net/ipt/resource?r=faunal_collection