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. Orig. presented on EAA’98 Bornemouth, UK Adjusted 2002
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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
CataloguesXML textCataloguesSGML textCataloguesSGML text
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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10
20
30
40
50
60
70
80
90
Hordaland Sogn ogFjordane
Sunnmøre
Surveyes
Excavations
New finds
Sample query 2:Destroyed ancient monuments from 1950 to 1980
0
20
40
60
80
100
120
140
160
180
Destroyedmonuments
Investegated bythe police
Convictions
Hordaland
Sogn og Fjordane
Sunnmøre
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