Digital Archives of Chinese Archaeological Data

 

Based on origin, archaeological objects and related information housed in Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica could be divided into several kinds as follows:

(1) Artifacts, recovered photos, records and files obtained from Yin-hsu excavation, Anyang.
(2) Artifacts, recovered photos, records and files obtained from the excavations of Lung-shan culture, and other Neolithic sites.
(3) Artifacts, recovered photos, records and files obtained from the excavations of Hsin-ts'un cemetery in Hsun-hsien.
(4) Artifacts, recovered photos, records and files obtained from the excavations of Shan-piao-chen and Liu-li-ko cemeteries.
(5) Mortillet's archaeological collection.
(6) Collection, purchase, and donation of Chinese archaeological objects, including more than two hundred bronze artifacts dated from Shang period to Wang-mang period and a few oracle bones.
(7) Artifacts obtained from Taiwan archaeological excavation.

Because the artifacts housed in Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica are mainly from the archaeological excavation conducted in Mainland China and Taiwan, the status of these objects is different from the collection- without -context housed in some museums. The context of artifact could offer more information about the culture of ancient times except the value of artifact itself. As archaeological features could check the complex of ancient people's activity, the information about excavated context should be worthy to be digitized.

Applied Metadata Standards: CDWA (Categories for the Description of Works of Art)

Metadata Elements List (includes element names, a crosswalk mapping with CDWA)

Status of the Project

Working Process displays the status and achievement of the project working with Metadata team. The first column shows a metadata workflow. Black words with colored background represent the works which had been done; meanwhile, the words in gray mean unfinished works. The second column is a memorandum that records important events to this project.

People

The Archaeology Project: Dr. Ming-chorng Hwang, Kwang-tzuu Chen, Yu-yun Lin¡BI-mei Hung
MAAT: Ya-ning Chen, Shu-jiun Chen, Yi-ting Chang, Frederick Sum

The file box contains documents which are the results of researching and analyzing metadata. Both supported projects and Metadata team provided the documents. These documents can be categorized into seven types as follows: worksheet, controlled vocabularies, analysis files, metadata requirement specification, user's guide, meeting summary, and misc..

Local Related Projects

International Related Projects

 


This Page Last Updated : 04/12/19
04/12/19