dataARC (www.data-arc.org) links information from the social sciences, natural sciences, and humanities in a data exploration tool explicitly designed for interdisciplinary, synthesis research. The aim is to facilitate and encourage research on long-term human ecodynamics in the North Atlantic that draws on data from multiple, normally disconnected, specialist sources. Project researchers are pursuing questions like how legal and social systems develop to manage resources in an environmentally fragmented landscape, and how we can see the effects of global changes in climate in local patterns of consumption and economic activities. By aiding researchers to find and contextualize specialist data from outside their own expertise, but related to their research, the dataArc tool will enable researchers to address questions like these more robustly. The data discovery tool is currently in prototype and integrates data from archaeological survey, zooarchaeology, the Icelandic Sagas, historic land registers, and paleoenvironmental records to address broad scale, multidisciplinary questions. Additional outreach tools and stories will be created throughout the project to engage the general public. This workshop will engage CAA professionals to gather feedback on dataARC progress and tool developing. It will provide an overview of DataARC objectives and progress, including the introduction of the prototype data exploration tool for feedback from the wider environmental archaeology community. Attendees will learn how dataARC is approaching linking interdisciplinary data from multiple different approaches, as well as test the tool before public release.
