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Implementing a robust data management plan and utilizing digital tools like CAD and GIS enables the spatialization and reconstruction of fragmented legacy excavation data, ensuring long-term curation and accessibility. Novelty: ClaimNovelty.METHODOLOGICAL. Consensus alignment: ConsensusAlignment.NEUTRAL.

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To evaluate how digital curatorial tools and data management plans can reconstruct spatial records and mortuary patterns from incomplete legacy excavation data.

September 6, 2026HeritageOpen Access

From Fragmented Records to Digital Insights: Curatorial Practices and Data Management in the Reconstruction of the 19th-Century Carmo Cemetery (Porto, Portugal)

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FCFrancisca Alves CardosoCentre for Research in Anthropology AMAnne MalcherekCentre for Research in Anthropology NMNicholas Márquez‐GrantUniversity of Oxford

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Case study demonstrates digital spatial reconstruction from fragmented excavation archives, highlighting the necessity of standardized data management plans.

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To evaluate how digital curatorial tools and data management plans can reconstruct spatial records and mortuary patterns from incomplete legacy excavation data.
Digitized and synthesized legacy excavation materials, including fieldnotes, hand-drawn sketches, and non-annotated photographs, using CAD and GIS software.
Mapped spatial coordinates and mortuary distributions for skeletal remains from the 19th-century Carmo Cemetery in Porto, Portugal (N=480).
Accurate spatial mapping was achievable for only 120 of the 480 excavated individuals (25%) due to pervasive omissions in historical excavation records.
GIS-based spatialization uncovered preliminary structural patterns in cemetery organization and mortuary distributions despite missing archival data.

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Cardoso et al. (2026) studied this question.

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Case study demonstrates digital spatial reconstruction from fragmented excavation archives, highlighting the necessity of standardized data management plans.

From Fragmented Records to Digital Insights: Curatorial Practices and Data Management in the Reconstruction of the 19th-Century Carmo Cemetery (Porto, Portugal)

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From Fragmented Records to Digital Insights: Curatorial Practices and Data Management in the Reconstruction of the 19th-Century Carmo Cemetery (Porto, Portugal)

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