Radiocarbon Databases Towards Interoperability: The Case of Mexico and the ArqueoData Project

One of the major discussions in archaeology revolves around chronologies. This paper aims to present an overview of absolute dating databases in the web with radiocarbon results and discuss the information gap on Latin American archaeological dating, especially in Mexico. This paper will present some databases or datasets compilation projects in Latin America (AndesC14, BRC14, MesoRAD), Europe (p3k14c), and North America (CARD). The analysis of the information in these projects, allows us to identify the gap that exists in Mexico radiocarbon results in the web. Likewise, a database proposal for Mexico will be presented: ArqueoData, and we will discuss on the interoperability opportunities offered by the creation of an Application Programming Interface (API) for effective communication between projects and databases. API allows us to discuss standardisation, controlled vocabularies, and similar ways for presenting information to ensure interoperability and bridging the gaps. Also considering the importance of the different contexts between Latin America (Global South) - Europe and North America (Global North). Abstract taken from the EAA 2024 Abstract Book: 30th EAA Annual Meeting (Rome, Italy 2024) - Abstract Book Names, titles and affiliations are reproduced as submitted by the session organisers and/or authors. Language and wording of titles and abstracts were not revised. Technical editing: Sára Tylšová, Magda Karabáš (EAA) Design and layout: Sára Tylšová, Magda Karabáš (EAA) Design - cover: Symposia srl Design - logo: Caterina Amendola European Association of Archaeologists Rome, August 2024 © European Association of Archaeologists, 2024 ISBN 978-80-88441-08-3 30th EAA Annual Meeting (Rome, 2024) https://www.e-a-a.org/EAA2024/scientificprogramme