Data structures for supra-regional archaeological vocabularies - dating and object types Edit

Document resulting from the work of the Working Group “Archaeology-Thesauri” of the Commission “Archaeology and Information Systems” of the Association of State Archaeologies.

Rainer Göldner (Landesamt für Archäologie Sachsen) proposes a data structure that maps chronological terms to time concepts (timeline). The dating scheme allows a supra-regional description of chronological terms, taking into account hierarchies, time spans and chronological sequences. This means that different chronology systems can be recorded in parallel and used for comprehensive analyses. The schema is explained and critically discussed on the basis of an application example.

In appendices, the data schema is applied to the “Timeline” of the Working Group Thesaurus, which lists term systems or thesauri used locally in various German federal states for archaeological dating.

@misc{Goldner2016,
  title = {Datenstrukturen F{\"u}r {\"U}berregionale Arch{\"a}ologische {{Vokabulare}} {\textendash} {{Datierungen}} Und {{Objekttypen}}},
  author = {G{\"o}ldner, Rainer},
  year = {2016},
  month = apr,
  url = https://web.archive.org/web/20240215185617/https://www.landesarchaeologien.de/fileadmin/mediamanager/004-Kommissionen/Archaeologie-und-Informationssysteme/Thesauri/Vokabular-Datenstrukturen_v1.1.pdf,
  urldate = {2024-02-15},
  copyright = {CC BY-SA 4.0}
}