An information architecture for the Dutch archaeological heritage

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• An information architecture for the Dutch
  archaeological heritage
• Ronald Wiemer
• Dutch National Service for Archaeological Heritage

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Contents

• SMR history in the Netherlands
• Three layer information architecture
• the general publicslayer
• the experts layer
• the scientists layer
• Future developments

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Archis I
RdBMS GRASS GIS Unix
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Purposes of Archis I

• Scientific research
• Heritage management

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Archis I characterised

• dbms-gis interface
• 150.000 pedological, a 125.000 landuse map and
  a 110.000 topographical map (all countrywide)
• 55.000 archaeological observations
• 13000 archaeological monuments
• 30 regular users inside ROB
• 80 registered users outside the ROB
• High-quality map production
• command driven user interface

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Archis I
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Masterplan Archis II

• Programme for the Conservation of Archaeological
  Information
• (Behoud informatie archeologische waarden, BIAW)

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Starting points

• guaranteed access to information independent of
  time and place
• registration of information at the information
  source should be facilitated
• differential access to information

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Three layer information architecture (1)

• the general publics layer
• the experts layer
• the scientists layer

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Three layer information architecture (2)
Publics layer Experts layer Scientists layer
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Experts layer

• Oracle 8I spatial
• MapXtreme Java edition
• SCLmapserver
• OpenGIS compliant

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Experts layer (continued)
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Experts layer screen shots
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Data retrieval
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Display of results in tableview
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Graphical representation of selection
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Edit map styles
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Map output to pdf
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Output to report
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scientists layer

• DBMS
• Document retrieval

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Livelink general structure and simple search
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Contents of a folder...
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Scanned image as a document type
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Scanned publication
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Advanced search
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Archis II / Livelink interoperability
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The general publics layer

• www.archeologienet.nl

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Introduction page
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Search by theme...
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Result
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Spatial query
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Result...
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Search by archaeological date
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Search for connected websites...
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Inhabitational history of Houten
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Archaeological warehouse
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A roman recipe
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Another linked thematic website
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The map is the navigation tool
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Future prospects

• Integration with
• Architectural heritage
• Historical geography
• ....
• ....
• Heritage portal