Digital Archaeological Resources at the University of Bergen:

Digital Archaeological Resources at the University of Bergen: An Efficient Tool in Research and Heritage Management?

The Norwegian Museum Project/The Unit for Digital Documentation,The Faculty of Arts, Univ. of Oslo

Orig. presented on EAA’98Bornemouth, UKAdjusted 2002

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.

The Bergen sub project - data sources

• The Ancient Site and Monuments Survey, compiled 1940 – 1975, covering 77 municipalities (5000 printed pages).

• 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)

The regions covered by

Bergen Museum

Bergen

Oslo

Stavanger

Sunnmøre

Sogn og Fjordane

Hordaland

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.

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.

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)

The topographical archive Bergen Museum

• Covering 7 600 individual farms (105 000 text-pages).

• Contains: letters, field survey, maps, excavations reports, drawings etc.

• New documents added regularly

Topographical Archive - Scanning

*Format : 1- bit TIFF single page (1995-1998) 24-bits color TIFF (1999- )

*Each document stored as two sets of single page filesB/W for fast presentationColor for details

*Two scanners :1 highspeed A3 format (Fujitsu)1 A0 width, unlimit length (Contex 8000)

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Topographical Archive - Physical Archive Data Model

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

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Sample query 2:Destroyed ancient monuments from 1950 to 1980

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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

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.

Digital Archaeological Resources at the University of Bergen:

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