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Digital Archaeological Resources at the University of Bergen:

Digital Archaeological Resources at the University of Bergen: An Efficient Tool in Research and Heritage Management?. Orig. presented on EAA’98 Bornemouth, UK Adjusted 2002. The Norwegian Museum Project/ The Unit for Digital Documentation, The Faculty of Arts, Univ. of Oslo.

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Digital Archaeological Resources at the University of Bergen:

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  1. Digital Archaeological Resources at the University of Bergen: An Efficient Tool in Research and Heritage Management? Orig. presented on EAA’98 Bornemouth, UK Adjusted 2002 The Norwegian Museum Project/ The Unit for Digital Documentation, The Faculty of Arts, Univ. of Oslo

  2. The Norwegian Museum Project • A major national effort to create common scientific databases for the university museums in Norway, 1998-2005 • Keywords: object administration, field work, research, teaching, dissemination of information, cultural and natural heritage and management and rational access to information.

  3. The Bergen sub project - data sources • The Ancient Site and Monuments Survey, compiled 1940 – 1975, covering 77 municipalities (5000 printedpages). • The published find/aquisition catalogues 1840-1994 (4500 printed pages) • The topographical archives 1850 – 2002 covering 7600 farms: letters, field surveys, reports (110000 document pages)

  4. The regions covered by Bergen Museum Sunnmøre Sogn og Fjordane Hordaland Bergen Oslo Stavanger

  5. The Ancient Monuments Survey • 1950 - 1975 • Covering 77 municipalities (5000 text-pages). • Converted to electronic text with SGML mark up. • Relational database and on-line search on the Web.

  6. The published find/aquisition catalogues • Covering 77 municipalities (4500 text-pages). • Converted to electronic text with SGML mark up. • Relational database and on-line search on the Web.

  7. The published find/aquistion catalogueselectronic text with SGML mark up • <CATYEAR><INTRO><MNAME>UNIVERSITETETS OLDSAKSAMLING TILVEKST • <YEAR>1989 </INTRO>[…] • <NRPAR><CATNR nrid="37267">C.37267. <ARTEFDATA><ARTEFACT>Axe</ARTEFACT> of • <MAT>iron</MAT><SHARED>from <AGE>Late Medieval time</AGE>. <ARTEFDATA> • <MEAS>L: 141mm</MEAS>, <MEAS>edge W:109mm</MEAS>. Carpenter's axe with • <FORM>specially shaped </FORM> blade to accommodate the fingers when it is held just "behind" the • edge. Particularly necessary for fine work, when used at an angle to the edge, or as a gouge. • <SHARED>Found<FINDLOC>on the hill, about • 300m above <LOC>ÅROS KAPELL</LOC>, <FARM>SJØGLØTT</FARM>, • <PARISH>ÅROS</PARISH>, <MUNICIPALITY>RØYKEN</MUNICIPALITY>, • <COUNTY>BUSKERUD</COUNTY></FINDLOC>, in 1959 by <FINDER>Berge Narvik< • /FINDER>, Tjernsrudveien 24, Jar, Oslo. </SHARED></NRPAR>(Translated exerpt from the similar catalogues from the archaeological museum in Oslo)

  8. The topographical archive Bergen Museum • Covering 7600 individual farms (105000 text-pages). • Contains: letters, field survey, maps, excavations reports, drawings etc. • New documents added regularly

  9. Topographical Archive - Scanning *Two scanners : 1 highspeed A3 format (Fujitsu) 1 A0 width, unlimit length (Contex 8000) *Format : 1- bit TIFF single page (1995-1998)24-bits color TIFF (1999- ) *Each document stored as two sets of single page files B/W for fast presentation Color for details

  10. Physical_document Physical_document Physical_document Document_Number Document_Number In_Folder_Rel Document_Number In_Folder_Rel No_Of_pages No_Of_pages No_Of_pages Document_Path Document_Path Document_Path Document_Format Document_Format Document_Format Document_Folder_Id Topographical Archive - Physical Archive Data Model Oracle Server File Server Physical Archive File System Document_folder Document_folder Document_Folder Folder_Type Folder_Type Folder_For_Rel Folder_Type Scanned Files Folder_For_Rel Folder_Section_Rel Folder_For_Id Folder_Section_Rel Folder_Section_Id Archive Section Archive Section Section_Name Section_Name Section_adress Section_adress Section_type Section_type

  11. Topographical Archive – Extracted Information Data Model Case Illustration Illustration Case Illustration Illustration Case Subject - free text Illustration/ photo Event_Type Event_Type Event_Type Illustration Illustration Case_in_document Artefact Case_in_document Case_in_document Logical_Doc_Rel Logical_Doc_Rel Event_types Case_Rel Event_types Case_Number Case_Rel Event_Rel Event_type Illustration Event_Type Event_Rel Illustration Logical_Doc_Id Site/Monument Person Logical_document Person Illustration Logical_document Date Illustration Logical_document Farm/Place Physical_Doc-Number Physical_Doc-Number Sender Physical_Doc-Number Sender Receiver Sender Physical_document Receiver Document_Type Person Physical_document Recipient Document_Type Person Physical_document Document_Type Person

  12. The Ancient Monuments Survey Extracted Information Data Model Illustration Illustration Illustration Illustration Artefact Ref. literature Person Person Person Illustration Illustration Site/Monument Illustration Illustration Farm/Place

  13. Find/aquisition cataloguesExtracted Information Data Model Catalogues XML text Illustration Catalogues XML text Illustration Catalogues SGML text Artefact Event_types Illustration Event_types Illustration Event_type Place Person Person Person Person Person Date

  14. Sample query 1:Number of archaeological field surveys compared with number of excavations and number of new finds (1955 to 1975).

  15. Sample query 2:Destroyed ancient monuments from 1950 to 1980

  16. Implementation • The databases are implemented in Oracle 8.1.7, not using any spesific object oriented features • The object types (and the table structures) are defined in a common meta database • All databases are accessed via a common framework • The common framework get design and structure information from the meta database. All queries are generated automatically on the basis of the information in the meta database. • Each user is granted access via a user database • The user interface program checks the meta database for new versions of modules and upgrade it self automatically via the net. • New databases are added regularly • A WWW version is being developed

  17. The Universities’ Collection Databases ”The Universities’ Collection Databases” denotes all databases developed by the Unit for digital documentation at the Arts Faculty, University of Oslo. The databases contains data from archaeology, antropology, botany, zoology, numismatics, history, history of arts, lexicography Data The databases are accessible via specially developed end user applications and via the WWW.

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