Regional Editors
María Florencia Becerra 
Katrin J. Westner
The workshop in February 2023 featured insightful and thought-provoking keynotes as well as intense and fruitful discussion rounds, which yielded several stimulating impulses for the future development and further growth of GlobaLID.
One of the prepositions jointly worked out in the discussions was to establish Regional Editors, who will curate the data for specific geographical regions. In practice, they will use their expertise when quality-checking data and metadata from (local) publications concerning the regions they are responsible for, and, with support from contributors, they will add data from their regions to GlobaLID’s database. The Core Team will carry out the final checks of the enriched data before they will become publicly available.
So far, six colleagues already joined the GlobaLID Team as Regional Editors:
- Southeast Asia: T. O. Pryce
(Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, UMR 7065 Institut de Recherche sur les ArchéoMATériaux, Université Paris-Saclay & CEA/CNRS UMR 3685 NIMBE, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France) - Iran: Nima Nezafati (Forschungsbereich Archäometallurgie, Leibniz-Forschungsmuseum für Georessourcen/Deutsches Bergbau-Museum Bochum, Bochum, Germany)
- Africa: Jay Stephens (School of Anthropology, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA; Archaeometry Laboratory, Research Reactor Center, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, USA)
- North America:
- Virginie Renson (Archaeometry Laboratory, Research Reactor Center, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, USA)
- David Killick (School of Anthropology, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA)
- Virginie Renson
- South America: María Florencia Becerra (Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Instituto de Arqueología, CONICET, Buenos Aires, Argentina; Forschungsbereich Archäometallurgie, Leibniz-Forschungsmuseum für Georessourcen/Deutsches Bergbau-Museum Bochum, Bochum, Germany)
The first contribution from Jay Stephens on sub-Saharan Africa with 468 entries is already available online. María Florencia Becerra and Virginie Renson currently work on data from Southern and Northern America, respectively, which will successively be added to the publicly accessible revised database.
GlobaLID is a community-driven and peer-curated project. Get in touch and join the team to contribute to GlobaLID and to help unleashing the power of FAIR data!