Using OCHRE for Archaeological Data Management:

The Jaffa Cultural Heritage Project Aaron A. Burke & Martin Peilstöcker

Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, UCLA & Johannes-Gutenberg Universität, Mainz

The Jaffa Cultural Heritage ProjectAaron A. Burke & Martin Peilstöcker, Co-Directors

www.antiquities.org.il/jaffa

Context: JCHP Programs• RESEARCH

– Research & salvage excavations– Historical studies– Environmental

• PUBLICATION• PRESENTATION• CONSERVATION

– Architectural remains (from exc.)– Artifacts– Ottoman buildings

Online Usage

• Data Entry– Field use: PIs, staff,

volunteers in Israel– Lab use– Year round: research

staff in Los Angeles, Germany, and Israel

• Long-term warehousing of data

• Presentations of data iPad use in 2012 with

Splashtop Streamer

Datasets• Excavation data

– Salvage excavations, since 1948– Kaplan excavations, 1955–1982– JCHP excavations, 2008–present

• Cultural Atlas of Jaffa– Bibliographies– Historical maps, 1799–present– Historical photos (19th cent. on)– Historical accounts

Data Integration

• Object and Sample Registration

• Images (photos, drawings)

• Documents (PDFs, HTMLs)

• Architectural, plan, and GIS Data

• Multiple observations

Data Formats

• Spreadsheet-style data records• Resource types (file formats)

– Documents (.pdf)…field books, notes, reports, misc.

– Image/Photo formats (.tif; .jpeg, .png)– Drawing formats (.dwg)– Videos (.avi; .mpg, .mov)– 3D VRML scans of objects (.vrml)– GIS (.shp)

OCHRE Layout

Navigation pane: Principal categories of hierarchies

Item pane

Reference pane

Item path

Item Data: View only

Image Data Integration

Item Data: Data entry view

Duplicated variable

Resources

Presentations

Practical Usage

• Bar code scanning for quick item access

• Management of location of items (i.e., storage, specialists)

• Simple and robust queries

• Production of reports

• Seamless online presentation of data

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