Towards a system for visualizing Alberta's cemeteries

As archaeologists, historians, and other researchers interpret spatial patterns within and between cemetery sites, they can benefit from access to both relevant data and tools to visualize those data. Unfortunately, the current (and not uncommon) situation within Alberta (Canada) has disconnected data sets located throughout the province, which makes it impossible to produce many potentially insightful visualizations. In this paper, we describe the current state of a collaborative project between academics, government, and several community organizations as we work to create a centralized system for aggregating and visualizing these cemetery data. We present an overview of the architecture, prototypes of the visualization, and our vision for the complete system.