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Extracting Data from Radiocarbon Dating Cards of Anthropological Records
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PROJECT COLLABORATORS:
Anthropology Professor Robert Kelly & the UW Anthropology Department
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Radiocarbon dating was invented nearly 70 years ago, and continues to be a crucial method for determining the age of historical objects, fossils and geological sites. Early records were compiled in the form of notched 5×8-inch cards, which still contain valuable information to modern researchers. Fred Johnson (1904-1994), an archaeologist at the Peabody Museum of Andover Academy, compiled 45,000 such cards for the dates 1959-1972 from all over the world, based on the reports and data published in the journal Radiocarbon. To make this information accessible to the scientists in our modern digital world, the University of Wyoming Libraries digitized the cards, and applied Optical Character Recognition (OCR) to the output. Our project focused on correcting and extracting the relevant fields from these records and organizing them for upload to the Canadian Archaeological Radiocarbon Database (CARD). Our Python codes automate this process, which can be used for other batches of cards of similar nature.
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Poster Presented at the 2022 Rocky Mountain Advanced
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Performance Optimization
Constructing a Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) Benchmarking Toolkit
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