Global Database of Early Watercraft: Beginnings, Development and Future Plans

Scientific paper - Original scientific paper

• Author: Bojan Kastelic
• Author: Miran Erič
• Author: Goran Zlodi https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0860-4469
• Author: Franc Solina
• Editor: Jennifer A. Rodrigues
• Editor: Arianna Traviglia
• Author's institution: University of Zagreb; Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences; (Department of information and Communication sciences)
• Scientific / art field, discipline and subdiscipline: SOCIAL SCIENCES; Information and Communication Sciences; Museology

Abstract (english)

The management and presentation of cultural heritage over a given region requires a dedicated database which can store all relevant information (location, text, photography, 3D models, animations etc.) and an intuitive way of accessing this information (searching via different criteria such as geo-location, time-frame, type of find, state of preservation, etc.).
We decided to test a recently available open source platform, Arches 3.0, to construct a database of all known logboats and other early watercraft in the country of Slovenia: the Early Watercraft Database. The software platforms of existing inventories are mostly proprietary, expensive to maintain and difficult to interconnect and upgrade to new requirements. Existing database inventories are therefore difficult to combine and this makes the study of early watercraft finds on a global scale, independent of modern state boundaries, more difficult. By contrast, information stored in applications developed on the Arches platform can be easily merged.
The Early Watercraft Database application demonstrates the ability of the Arches platform to be employed for a wide range of applications; it can be used for small-scale solutions but it can also be extended to accommodate large-scale (global) inventory requirements. The Arches open source heritage inventory and management system is sponsored by the Getty Conservation Institute and the World Monuments Fund.

• Keywords (english): Early watercraft; global database; Arches
• Language: english
• Publication type: Scientific paper - Original scientific paper
• Publication status: Published
• Peer review: Peer review - international
• Publication version: Published version
• Publication title: IKUWA6 Shared Heritage: Proceedings of the Sixth International Congress for Underwater Archaeology
• Numbering: pp. 513-523
• ISBN: 978-1-78491-642-8
• ISBN: 978-1-78491-642-8 (e-Pdf)
• URN:NBN: urn:nbn:hr:131:624721
• Publication: 2020
• Conference: Title: Sixth International Congress for Underwater Archaeology; Acronym: IKUWA6; Location: Western Australian Maritime Museum, Fremantle, Australia; Start date: 2016-11-28; End date: 2020-12-02; Assembly type: Lecture
• Document URL: http://www.archaeopress.com/ArchaeopressShop/Public/displayProductDetail.asp?id={153A2BF3-349E-4939-B96A-BA8FC5D2A5F6}
• Type of resource: Text
• Publisher: Archaeopress
• Publishing place: Oxford
• Access conditions: Open access
• Created on: 2020-09-04 14:01:20