Presentation by Armin Volkmann
Junior Research Group "Digital Humanities and Digital Cultural heritage" Cluster of Excellence, Heidelberg University
Full-day session on archaeological infrastructures and services at the 18th Cultural Heritage and New Technologies (CHNT) conference
Vienna, Austria
11th -13th November 2013
Beyond administrative boundaries: archaeological networks of research
1. 1
Beyond administrative boundaries:
archaeological networks of research
Armin Volkmann
Junior Research Group "Digital Humanities and Digital Cultural heritage"
Cluster of Excellence, Heidelberg University
2. DARIAH – Digital Research Infrastructure
for the Arts and Humanities
● the demonstrator ARENA and the DAI project Arachne show possibilities of
the implementation of databases and entire collections in larger networks of
interoperable collections (within our Collection Registry)
● standards of metadata structure (metadata crosswalk of Adex/ Dublin Core,
persistent identifier service for uniquely identify content of digital research
data > target: standardized database queries for otherwise elusive data
collections
9. Association of State Archaeologists of Germany, Commission for Archaeology and Information
Systems – ADeX http://www.landesarchaeologen.de/verband/kommissionen/
11 Regional-Datenbank Archäologie/Museum Westlausitz
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10. The federal structure of Germany stands basically in
opposition to the initiation of a statewide or even
national archaeological database as exists, for
example, in the Netherlands or Denmark.
central
database
archiv 2
research area
archiv 1 archiv 2 archiv 3 archiv 4 archiv 5 archiv 6 archiv 7
.
research
archiv
6
archiv
7
archiv 3
archiv
5 archiv 4
archiv 1
existing problem:
the research area is
usually related to various
administrative regions
14. e.g. site database Lorrain
ID_no coordonné_x coordonné_y ort ort_alt Fundnr Fundart_situatente_Zeittrouvaille_Funde r_Seite Longitude Latitude
AL 1 882196,71 2493237,35 Basse-Ham Niederham 287-036 Gräberfeld MW ? Graburnen, Körpergräber , 493 6,2203630 49,3738650
AL 10 914880,29 2473785,05 Ham-sous-VarHam unter Var288-001 römische NekrGR , 494 6,6546180 49,1840320
AL 100 944210,13 2434642,16 Hellering-lès-Fénétrange He 310-005 villa? GR Mirco-Relief, , 503 7,0239410 48,8177720
AL 101 948253,33 2433692,51 Hellering-lès-Fénétrange He 310-006 villa? GR Lineare und octogonale Strukt , 503 7,0780890 48,8070750
AL 102 927135,11 2454514,69 Hellimer Hellimer 311 Hügelgräberfe PH? Tumuli , 503 6,8073030 49,0049970
AL 103 902533,81 2470552,3 Helstroff Helsdorf 312-002 GR bearbeiteter Muschelkalkbloc , 503 6,4832930 49,1609970
AL 104 904837,65 2468521,94 Helstroff Helsdorf 312-003 Römerstr.? GR Ziegel, Keramik, Münze, Schl , 503 6,5133330 49,1416850
AL 105 903792,22 2468244,34 Helstroff Helsdorf 312-005/006/0Römerstr.? GR tegulae, Keramik, Glas, TS , 503 6,4988350 49,1396920
AL 106 903892,7 2468421,69 Helstroff Helsdorf 312-007 Siedlung? GR tegulae, Keramik, Mühlstein , 503 6,5003370 49,1412360
AL 107 905320,89 2468403,7 Helstroff Helsdorf 312-009 Gräberfeld? GR? Luftbildaufnahme, mehrere Gr , 503 6,5198560 49,1403930
AL 108 901545,55 2457549,24 Hèmilly Hemilly 313-004 Hügelgräberfe PH? 20 Hügel, Holzkohle, Terraco , 504 6,4604290 49,0447880
AL 109 901257,19 2456869,4 Hèmilly Hemilly 313-001 Siedlung? GR? Keramik, Fibeln, Gebrauchsg , 504 6,4560060 49,0388240
AL 11 913611,68 2474493,88 Ham-sous-VarHam unter Var288-006 Siedlung? GR Münze, Ruinen , 494 6,6377880 49,1910160
AL 110 940610,08 2420875,05 Héming Héming 314-012 PH? Keramik , 504 6,9640060 48,6961660
AL 111 940774,94 2420857,18 Héming Héming 314-001 Nekropole? MW? Brandbestattungen, Truhe? Sa , 504 6,9662260 48,6959180
AL 112 940999,03 2419572,65 Héming Héming 314-007 Siedlung? GR? Fundamente, Sandsteinblöcke , 504 6,9682360 48,6842740
AL 113 940890,31 2419597,97 Héming Héming 314-002/3/8 villa? GR halbe Säule, Eisengegenständ , 504 6,9667840 48,6845580
AL 114 940176,9 2420689,34 Héming Héming 314-004/5 villa GR Mirco-Reliefs, Dachziegel, H , 504 6,9579860 48,6947280
AL 115 940792,12 2420222,13 Héming Héming 314-006 Siedlung? GR? Ziegel, Mikro-Reliefs , 505 6,9659510 48,6902110
AL 116 940948,05 2420314,93 Héming Héming 314-009 PH? Keramik , 505 6,9681390 48,6909610
AL 117 940948,05 2420314,93 Héming Héming 314-009 GR? Keramik , 505 6,9681390 48,6909610
AL 118 941229,2 2421205,92 Héming Héming 314-010/11 Gräberfeld? MW? Skelette und viereckige Grube , 505 6,9726630 48,6988070
AL 119 958919,44 2425363 Henridorff Heinrichsdorf 315-001 ländliche SiedGR? Terassen, Spuren v. Landwirt , 505 7,2159110 48,7264870
AL 12 913976,01 2473682,17 Ham-sous-VarHam unter Var288-008 Siedlung? GR tegulae, Ziegel, Hypokaust, M , 494 6,6421650 49,1835550
AL 120 959036,53 2425766,51 Henridorff Heinrichsdorf 315-002 ländliche SiedGR? Terassen, Spuren v. Landwirt , 505 7,2178390 48,7300410
AL 121 957843,08 2426537,78 Henriville Herrchweiler 316-008 Speicher? PH? , 505 7,2023030 48,7376250
AL 122 929798,35 2466002,6 Henriville Herrchweiler 316-002 ländliche Sied PH? Koppeln? , 505 6,8526290 49,1066910
AL 123 957843,08 2426537,78 Henriville Herrchweiler 316-009 Brandgrab GR Urne, Glas , 505 7,2023030 48,7376250
15. ADeX-standard
for data exchange
of archaeological
authorities, across
existing
administrative
boundaries
projektearbeitsgruppen/adex/
http://www.landesarchaeologen.de/verband/kommi
ssionen/archaeologie-und-informationssysteme/
16. Test region in the Franco-German upper Rhine region with the archaeological data of west France, Luxembourg and
southwest Germany (with federated states: Rheinlandpfalz, Saarland, Baden-Württemberg, Hessen und Bayern)
in seven archives largely independent state offices for the preservation of monuments or state offices for archaeology
17. Decentralized data access in inter-regional research networks of archaeological data
partner server: query (use case: seven partners)
project
partner 5
‐ Multiple SQL/XML database queries
project
partner 7
project
partner 6
project
partner 2
project
partner 4
project
partner 3
project
partner 1
project
partner 1
project
partner 2
project
partner 4
project
partner 5
project
partner 6
project
partner 7
project
partner 3
Service‐Portal
Collection Registry
‐ projection web‐GIS
‐ download after normalization
regional
databases
datenbase queries
beyond existing
administrative
boundaries
project client: request
‐database consistency check
‐generation of normalized databases
‐databases with standardized vocabulary
‐coordinates transformation
‐web‐GIS‐Service and GIS‐hosting
WORKFLOW
Server Database‐Registration
front
end
back end
Project architecture:
18. multilingual database interoperability
heterogeneous databases
> solution: generation of normalized databases
e.g. German-French standardized vocabulary with cross-concordances
for standardized database queries
Fundart
situation_de
= _fouille
multilingual database queries
Norm‐vokabular
normalized databases / transformation
project‐portal
XML
coordonné_x coordonné_y Rechts_G‐K4 Hoch_G‐K4
project‐portal
web‐GIS
longitude latitude
21. …statistical verification of hypotheses, generated from the site catchment analyses
soil‐type
time: from 180 AD to 700 AD
time: from 180 AD to 700 AD
annual precipitation range
time: from 180 AD to 700 AD
geomorphology
soil‐size
time: from 180 AD to 700 AD
22. early Migration Period D:
380-480 AD
late migration Period E:
480-700 AD
prehistoric space-conception
compared in periods
Thyssen-Polygones within the Voronoi-Diagram
hypothetical settlement intensities
N 0 20 km
N 0 20 km