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’98 Bornemouth, UK Adjusted 2002

The Norwegian Museum Project A major national effort to create common scientific databases for the university museums in Norway, 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 (4500 printed pages) The topographical archives 1850 – 2002 covering 7600 farms: letters, field surveys, reports ( document pages)

The regions covered by Bergen Museum Bergen Oslo Stavanger Sunnmøre Sogn og Fjordane Hordaland

The Ancient Monuments Survey 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 catalogues electronic text with SGML mark up UNIVERSITETETS OLDSAKSAMLING TILVEKST 1989 […] C Axe of iron from Late Medieval time. L: 141mm, edge W:109mm. Carpenter's axe with specially shaped 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. Found on the hill, about 300m above ÅROS KAPELL, SJØGLØTT, ÅROS, RØYKEN, BUSKERUD, in 1959 by Berge Narvik< /FINDER>, Tjernsrudveien 24, Jar, Oslo. (Translated exerpt from the similar catalogues from the archaeological museum in Oslo)

The topographical archive Bergen Museum Covering individual farms ( text-pages). Contains: letters, field survey, maps, excavations reports, drawings etc. New documents added regularly

Topographical Archive - Scanning *Format : 1- bit TIFF single page ( ) 24-bits color TIFF (1999- ) *Each document stored as two sets of single page files B/W for fast presentation Color for details *Two scanners : 1 highspeed A3 format (Fujitsu) 1 A0 width, unlimit length (Contex 8000)

Physical_document Document_Number In_Folder_Rel No_Of_pages Document_Path Document_Format Physical_document Document_Number In_Folder_Rel No_Of_pages Document_Path Document_Format Physical_document Document_Number No_Of_pages Document_Path Document_Format Document_Folder_Id Archive Section Section_Name Section_adress Section_type Archive Section Section_adress Section_type Document_folder Folder_Type Folder_For_Rel Folder_Section_Rel Document_folder Folder_Type Folder_For_Rel Folder_Section_Rel Document_Folder Folder_Type Folder_For_Id Folder_Section_Id Section_Name File System Topographical Archive - Physical Archive Data Model Oracle Server File Server Physical Archive Scanned Files

Event_Rel Topographical Archive – Extracted Information Data Model Physical_document Logical_document Physical_Doc-Number Sender Receiver Person Case_in_document Logical_Doc_Rel Case_Rel Document_Type Logical_document Physical_Doc-Number Sender Receiver Document_Type Logical_document Case_in_document Logical_Doc_Rel Case_Rel Event_Rel Case_in_document Physical_Doc-Number Case Event_Type Case Event_Type Event_types Event_type Case_Number Event_Type Logical_Doc_Id Case Event_Type Sender Recipient Document_Type Illustration Subject - free text Illustration Illustration/ photo Illustration Artefact Illustration Site/Monument Illustration Farm/Place Person Date

The Ancient Monuments Survey Extracted Information Data Model Illustration Artefact Illustration Site/Monument Illustration Farm/Place Illustration Ref. literature Person

Find/aquisition catalogues Extracted Information Data Model Illustration Artefact Illustration Place Event_types Event_type Person Catalogues XML text Catalogues XML text Person Date Catalogues XML text Catalogues XML text Catalogues SGML text Catalogues SGML text

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

Sample query 2: Destroyed ancient monuments from 1950 to 1980

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.