@article{discovery10142507,
           title = {Big Data in Maritime Archaeology: Challenges and Prospects from the Middle East and North Africa},
            year = {2022},
           month = {January},
         journal = {Journal of Field Archaeology},
       publisher = {Maney Publishing},
            note = {Copyright {\copyright} 2022 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor \& Francis Group. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way.},
        keywords = {remote sensing, maritime cultural heritage, Libya, Oman, coastal erosion, cyclone},
          author = {Andreou, GM and Nikolaus, J and Westley, K and El Safadi, C and Blue, L and Smith, A and Breen, C},
        abstract = {The Middle East and North Africa have witnessed a surfeit of geospatial data collection projects, resulting in big databases with powerful deductive capacities. Despite the valuable insights and expansive evidentiary record offered by those databases, emphasis on anthropogenic threats to cultural heritage, combined with a limited integration of local perspectives, have raised important questions on the ethical and epistemological dimensions of big data. This paper contextualizes maritime cultural heritage (MCH) in those debates through the lens of the Maritime Endangered Archaeology in the Middle East and North Africa project (MarEA). MarEA is developing a unique for the region database for MCH designed to amalgamate a baseline record emphasizing spatial location, state of preservation, and vulnerability. This record will form a stepping stone toward finer-grained research on MCH and its interdisciplinary intersections. It is also developed as an information resource to facilitate local collaborators in prioritizing site monitoring and developing documentation, management, and mitigation strategies.},
             url = {https://doi.org/10.1080/00934690.2022.2028082}
}