Abstract
Abstract. In the context of the Collaborative Research Centre 806 "Our way to Europe" (CRC806), a research database is developed for integrating data from the disciplines of archaeology, the geosciences and the cultural sciences to facilitate integrated access to heterogeneous data sources. A practice-oriented data integration concept and its implementation is presented in this contribution. The data integration approach is based on the application of Semantic Web Technology and is applied to the domains of archaeological and palaeoenvironmental data. The aim is to provide integrated spatio-temporal access to an existing wealth of data to facilitate research on the integrated data basis. For the web portal of the CRC806 research database (CRC806-Database), a number of interfaces and applications have been evaluated, developed and implemented for exposing the data to interactive analysis and visualizations.
Highlights
The Collaborative Research Centre 806 (CRC806) is an interdisciplinary research project with more than 100 researchers from the disciplines of archaeology, the geosciences and cultural sciences, funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG)
A central research database, the CRC806-Database, is currently under development and sets out to accomplish two main goals: The first goal is to provide a long-term archive and publication platform for results produced by CRC806 researchers
Each of the integrated datasets has a spatial as well as a temporal extent; a factor that has been at the centre of our considerations from the very outset of data model development. This understanding led us to the implementation of the presented data integration concept to achieve semantic interoperability (Kavouras and Kokla, 2008) in the spatial as well as in the temporal semantics of the two data models
Summary
The Collaborative Research Centre 806 (CRC806) is an interdisciplinary research project (www.sfb806.de) with more than 100 researchers from the disciplines of archaeology, the geosciences and cultural sciences, funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG). A central research database, the CRC806-Database, is currently under development and sets out to accomplish two main goals: The first goal is to provide a long-term archive and publication platform for results produced by CRC806 researchers. This aspect implements the data management policy that is mandatory for DFG-funded CRCs (DFG, 1998; Effertz, 2010), and will be, from the data management perspective, comparable to other DFG-funded CRC research databases, e.g. The aim of this work is to facilitate the research within the CRC806 and the interested community by providing integrated access to the archaeological and paleoenvironmental data
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