(PDF) The Morgantina Legacy Data Integration Project

COMPLEXITY APPLICATION MORGANTINA CITY PLAN CONTEXT SHEETS 3D PHOTOGRAMMETRIC by ERIK THORKILDSEN w/ MALCOLM BELL RECONSTRUCTION NUMEROUS COMPUTATIONAL AND TECHNOLOGICAL ADVANCES OVER THE PAST FEW DECADES HAVE LED TO WIDESPREAD CHANGES IN ARCHAEOLOGI- CAL DATA COLLECTION, PROCESSING, AND VISUALIZATION. TODAY, A WIDE EXPORTED DATA: VARIETY OF DIGITAL APPLICATIONS MAY BE EMPLOYED FOR THE DOCUMEN- TATION AND INTERPRETATION OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL MATERIAL, BOTH IN THE FIELD AND IN POST-EXCAVATION PROCESSING. HOWEVER, THESE TOOLS AREA INCREASINGLY REQUIRE KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS BEYOND THE METHOD- 1 3P 37.3 1 3P 37.2 1 3P 37.1 1 3P 37 1 3P 35 OLOGICAL SCOPE OF CLASSICAL ARCHAEOLOGY (EITELJORG II 2008). THIS TRENCH PRESENTS A PROBLEM FOR MANY LONG-ESTABLISHED ARCHAEOLOGICAL n s PROJECTS, WHICH MAY SEEK TO INTEGRATE VAST AMOUNTS OF LEGACY DATA CONTEXT r u ctio t INTO DIGITALLY-STRUCTURED FORMATS. WHILE THESE CHANGES HAVE HAD THE POSITIVE EFFECT OF FOSTERING ENHANCED COLLABORATION ACROSS MULTIPLE INTERDISCIPLINARY SPECIALIZATIONS, THERE REMAINS AN UR- CONTEXT ID c o n s 1 3P 34 re context 3d GENT NEED TO DEVELOP AN ADAPTABLE DATA-COLLECTION ARCHITECTURE CAPABLE OF SEAMLESSLY INTEGRATING LEGACY EXCAVATION DATA WITH CURRENT ARCHAEOLOGICAL DATA COLLECTION, PROCESSING, AND VISUAL- Figure 1 Figure 1 CONTEXTUAL NOTE inventory number 92-273 92-246 IZATION TECHNIQUES. AGORA - 92-572 NB NAME IN 2012, WE BEGAN TO DEVELOP AN INTEGRATED DIGITAL SYSTEM THAT IN- find number 68 83 CORPORATES A RELATIONAL DATABASE WITH GIS AND CAD TECHNOLOGIESFigure 1 70 75 NB PAGE FOR THE AMERICAN EXCAVATIONS AT MORGANTINA (AEM). SINCE 1955, THE AEM HAS SPONSORED ACTIVE RESEARCH AND EXCAVATION PROJECTS ON PB # a A NEAR-ANNUAL BASIS (BELL 1988; TSAKIRGIS 1995). BY ANY MEASURE, THE AEM HAS PRODUCED AN EXCEPTIONAL AMOUNT OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL da t DATA AND DOCUMENTATION, INCLUDING OVER 40,000 CATALOGED FINDS. THE MORGANTINA ARCHIVES, NOW SPREAD OVER SEVERAL U.S. INSTITU- INV # r v e y TIONS, CONSISTS OF SUPERVISORS’ TRENCH NOTEBOOKS, SITE AND TRENCH PLANS, ARCHITECTURAL AND OBJECT DRAWINGS, CATALOG CARDS, FINDS FIND # s u REGISTERS, SUMMARY REPORTS, AND AN EXTENSIVE PHOTOGRAPHIC COL- LECTION. THE MAJORITY OF THIS DATA EXISTS IN A NON-DIGITAL, NON-RE- FIND ID MORGANTINA : ca 15,000 EXCAVATION PHOTOS LATIONAL FORMAT. Figure 1 FIND TYPE THIS POSTER PRESENTS OUR METHODOLOGICAL APPROACH TO CURATING 3P/92 THE AEM’S LEGACY DATASET BY HIGHLIGHTING SELECT DATA ASSOCIATED WITH THE EXCAVATION OF ONE TRENCH IN THE CENTRAL SHOPS OF THE AG- CENTRAL image id : FL2013_00001.jpg image id : FL2013_00002.jpg image id : FL2013_00003.jpg image id : FL2013_00004.jpg image id : FL2013_00005.jpg CLASS ORA AT MORGANTINA. EXCAVATION OF THIS COMMERCIAL BUILDING BEGAN SHOPS n s FIELD DESCRIPTION tio IN 1956 AND CONTINUED IN 1957, 1963, 1989, AND 1992. OUR FOCUS HERE IS THE 1992 EXCAVATION, SUPERVISED BY ETTA SAUNDERS. v a NB NORTHING/PP1 ele MORGANTINA : ca 130 NOTEBOOKS Figure 2 TYPICAL DATABASE INTERFACE NB EASTING/PP2 NB ELEVATION PLAN # image id : FL2013_00007.jpg image id : FL2013_00008.jpg image id : FL2013_00009.jpg image id : FL2013_00010.jpg image id : FL2013_00011.jpg Figure 2 OUR GOAL FOR THIS PROJECT IS TO DEVELOP A METHODOLOGICAL AP- PROACH THAT WILL CONSISTENTLY ACCOMMODATE VARIOUS TYPES OF LEGACY DATA IN AN ADAPTABLE, YET STANDARDIZED, FASHION. THE REGU- TS POINT # d s fin LAR DATA-COLLECTION STRUCTURE PROVIDED BY OUR DIGITAL DATABASE, WHEN COMBINED WITH THE VISUALIZATION PROVIDED BY GIS AND PHOTO- GRAMMETRY, PROVIDES A VERSATILE TOOL WITH WHICH WE CAN SYSTEM- TS DESCRIPTION context 1 3P/92 34 - 37 CONT. 1 3P/92 36 - 37, 38 ATICALLY ANALYZE LEGACY DATA ALONGSIDE DATA PRODUCED BY CURRENT inventory number 92-273 - 92-244 92-554 92-572 92-268 - AND FUTURE RESEARCH AND EXCAVATION. TS NORTHING 92-265 92-246 - 92-552 92-557 92-267 find number 68 69 70 83 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 ONE OF THE CHALLENGES WE HAVE FACED WHEN TRANSLATING LEGACY TS EASTING DATA INTO DIGITAL FORMATS IS THE DISPARITY IN THE DEGREE OF AC- 1 3P 37-38 CURACY USED FOR RECORDING THE LOCATION OF FINDS, PARTICULARLY WHEN COMPARED TO TODAY’S STANDARDS. CURATING THESE “FUZZY” (DE TS ELEVATIONS INTEGRATION RUNZ ET AL. 2007) LEGACY DATASETS HAS REQUIRED ADDED FLEXIBIL- ITY IN OUR RELATIONAL DATABASE AND HAS PROVED CHALLENGING WHEN TS ELEVATIONL x t s ATTEMPTING TO VISUALIZE THIS MATERIAL IN GIS. AS WE CONTINUE TO WORK WITH THE MORGANTINA DATA, WE HOPE TO CONTRIBUTE TO THE ONGOING DIALOG CONCERNING PRECISELY THESE ISSUES. UTM NORTHING co tn e UTM EASTING 1 3P/92 31 - 35 1 3P/92 36 - 37.1, 38, 40, 42-43 1 3P/92 37.2 - 37.3 1 3P/92 37.3 - 38, 44 UTM ELEVATION 92-561 92-564 92-571 92-271 92-560 92-565 - 92-134 92-586 - MORGANTINA : ca 5,000 TOP PLANS Figure 2 TRENCH 3P/92 : 7 TOP PLANS POTTERY BUCKETS SOIL SAMPLES 82 80 84 86 89 91 image id :P2013_00003.jpg image id :P2013_00004.jpg image id :P2013_00005.jpg image id :P2013_00007.jpg image id :P2013_00008.jpg image id :P2013_00009.jpg image id :P2013_00006.jpg 81 85 87 90 TRENCH 3P/92 : 1 NOTEBOOK MONUMENTS re i a l media a SPATIAL LAYER STRUCTURE TRENCHES context 34 CONTEXT Figure 2 NOTEBOOKS PLANS context 35 LEGACY DATABASE STRUCTURE DATABASE FINDS context 37 RELATIONSHIP STRUCTURE media 1 3P/92 37 - 44 STORAGE 1 3P/92 31 - 35 92-237 92-193 92-555 92-412 CONSERVATION 92-236 92-195 92-240 92-248 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 context 34 context 37.3 context 35 MORGANTINA : ca 35,000 FINDS INVENTORY NUMBER: TO MORGANTINA 92-732 - 92-734 OREGON EXPEDITION PRINCETON HOUSE ILLINOIS UVA DUKE US INSTITUTIONS MUSEO REGIONALE 92-736 - 92-741 DI AIDONE ELEVATED CONTEXTS GIS MAPPINGS dots indicate locations of stored materials AIDONE 92-767 - 92-773 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS: BIBLIOGRAPHY: FIRST AND FOREMOST, WE WOULD LIKE TO THANK PROFESSORS MALCOLM BELL AND CARLA ANTONACCIO, CO-DIRECTORS OF THE AMERICAN EXCAVA- Bell III, M. 1988. Excavations at Morgantina 1980-1985: Preliminary Report XII, TIONS AT MORGANTINA, FOR THEIR CONTINUED SUPPORT AND ENCOURAGEMENT. FOR THE HARD WORK OF BOTH INTEGRATING DIGITAL SURVEY DATA with a note by R. R. Holloway. AJA 92: 313 - 342. INTO THE THE EXCAVATIONS AND DEVELOPING THE GRAPHIC RECORD KEEPING METHODOLOGIES WE THANK THE PROJECT ARCHITECT ERIK THORKILD- SEN. THE EARLY STAGES OF THIS PROJECT WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN POSSIBLE WITHOUT THE GENEROUS FUNDING PROVIDED BY PRINCETON UNIVERSITY de Runz, C., Desjardin, E., Piatoni, F., Herbin, M. 2007. Using fuzzy logic to manage uncertain multi-modal data in an ar- 92-873 - 92-878 TRENCH 3P/92 : AND THE FRIENDS OF MORGANTINA. ACCESS TO MATERIALS STORED IN AIDONE (SICILY) HAS BEEN GENEROUSLY FACILITATED BY ARCH. ENRICO CA- chaeological GIS. In Proceedings of the International Symposium on Spatial Data Quality, Pays-Bas, Enschede, Netherlands. ca8 LOCATIONS FOR 137 FINDS EXCAVATED RUSO, DOTT.SSA LAURA MANISCALCO, AND THE PARCO ARCHEOLOGICO REGIONALE DI MORGANTINA. FOR THEIR EFFORTS COLLECTING AND CURATING DATA IN BOTH PRINCETON AND AIDONE, AND FOR THEIR FEEDBACK THROUGHOUT THE PROCESS, WE WOULD ALSO LIKE TO EXTEND A HEARTY THANKS Eiteljorg II, H. 2008. Archaeological Computing, 2nd edition. Bryn Mawr, PA: Center for the Study of Architecture. RESEARCH/EXCAVATION 100 PLOTTED AND ELEVATED TYPICAL DATA ENTRY LAYOUT TO KAREN ABEND, JARED BENTON, BEN GORHAM, LUKE HOLLIS, KATHARINE P. D. HUEMOELLER, DAVEN REAGAN, HAL SHARP, MALI SKOTHEIM, AISLINN SMALLING, RANDALL SOUZA, SEAN TENNANT, ANNIE TRUETZEL, BARBARA TSAKIRGIS, JOHN WALLRODT, AND GEORGE ZARAS. Tsakirgis, B. 1995. Morgantina: A Greek Town in Central Sicily. ActaHyp 6: 123 - 147. DATA THE MORGANTINA 92-910 - 92-925 Leigh Anne Lieberman, Princeton University,

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