Debbie Harmon

 

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Research Assistant
JBHT-CAST room 326
Phone: (479) 575-5730
Fax: (479) 575-5218

EDUCATION

M.A. Anthropology. University of Arkansas, Fayetteville. 1999
B.A. Anthropology. University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, 1975

EXPERTISE

Debbie is currently involved in development of a cyberinfrastructure for archaeology and archaeological visualization. She has developed research proposals that generated in excess of $4.4M in external funding for CAST. She develops website content and co-authored INSIDE GeoMedia, published in 1999. Prior to coming to the University of Arkansas, Debbie worked in IT departments at Nortel, Chicago, and at the USDA's Southern Regional Research Center, New Orleans. Her responsibilities included system administration, systems analysis, programming, and staff support.

SELECTED PROJECTS

Digital Antiquity: Planning a Digital Information Infrastructure for Archaeology

Plannning year development of an implementation plan for a broadly useful and potentially transformative information infrastructure for archaeology, which would facilitate traditional archaeological research, enable synthetic research and enhance the preservation of archaeological data residing in digital form (including databases, text, images, geospatial, and 3D data).

Archaeoinformatics.org

Repository of the documents, resources, and virtual lecture series archives of the Digital Antiquity Consortium.

New Approaches to the Use and Integration of Multi-Sensor Remote Sensing for Historic Resource
Identification and Evaluation 

The research focus of this project, funded by the Defense Department's Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program (SERDP), was development of powerful new analytical approaches that demonstrate the effectiveness of non-invasive archaeological methods and the deployment of tools that offer an opportunity to recover a great deal of information about site content while reducing costs associated with traditional archaeological survey and excavation. Exploration and assessment of the benefits of combining a large suite of ground, aerial and space-based sensor data for the detection of subsurface archaeological features is central to this research which was completed in 2006.

Metadata and Standards

The Arkansas GeoLibrary node of Clearinghouse was registered in 1999, with the support of the Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC) It has grown to an archive of over 800 metadata records, which, due to the fact that these records document seamless statewide data layers, represents over 15,000 metadata records in a traditional archive. The node provides OGC web mapping services (WMS) and OGC web feature server (WFS) capability as well as OGC Style Management under OWS 2. Software developed at CAST in the course of several FGDC Cooperative Agreements projects, allow metadata records to be quickly updated, added, and indexed in the Arkansas GeoLibrary Clearinghouse node.