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Linked Open Data Location Identifiers for Pacific Archaeology | Hardy & Leclerc | CAAA2025

The Use of Linked Open Data Location Identifiers for Pacific Archaeology Kristine Hardy, Mathieu Leclerc Linked Open Data (LOD) relies on persistent unique resource identifiers (URI) for objects including locations. Spatial identifiers are essential for archaeological databases and the location identifiers used in archaeological LOD are Wikidata, Geonames, Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names (GTGN) and Pleiades. Islands are important locational units for Pacific studies including our database for Pacific ceramic fabrics, Kuden. The Pacific Island Database (PID) of Nunn et al. 2016 contains 1778 Pacific islands and the Pacific Archaeological Radiocarbon Database uses it as a location source. PID (as represented by the paper Supplementary Table) has no island URI. Having URI for Pacific islands, sub-regions of larger islands, and archaeological sites, would promote linking of the growing number of different datasets related to Pacific archaeology, irrespective of whether the data is LOD. We examined how well Pacific archaeological sites and islands are represented in the common LOD location identifiers. Pacific ‘archaeological sites’ (Q839954) are less represented than European sites in Wikidata and the other databases. An exception being the sites in regions linked to the USA. Vanuatu, Samoa, Fiji and Tonga have one or zero ‘archaeological sites’ (July 2025). Wikidata, Geonames, and GTGN have at least 99%, 95% and 5% respectively, of the islands in the island Pacific Island Database. As part of the process of creating a LOD version of Kuden, we are adding Wikidata and Geoname identifiers to our site and island names. Kuden will now feature a mapping table for the Wikidata, Geonames and PID IDs. Presented on October 3 2025 as part of CAA Australasia Digital Archaeology Conference. You can become a member of CAA Australasia here: https://au.caa-international.org/subs... Follow us on BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/caa-australa... Follow us on Facebook:   / caa.australasia   Follow us on LinkedIn:   / 12708537   #Archaeology #CAAA2025 #CAAAustralasia #DigitalArchaeology