ITR: Managing Complex Information Applications: An Archaeology Digital Library

Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland OH

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Abstract

The project will develop digital libraries technologies for ancient Near Eastern studies with two archaeological components. The project will build on and extend tools to enable archaeologists, humanists and social scientsts to gather, preserve, and disseminate real-time and historical data . The effort involves developing archeological metadata, field tools for collecting and recording data and a network based repository to which users can contribute and draw materials relevant to their work. Taken together, the products of the project offer to archeology and related disciplines significant advances for collecting, disseminating, sharing information and enable new collaborative possibilities for interdisciplinary work.