Repository details
ARACHNE IDAI.objects
Name of repository
ARACHNE IDAI.objects
Repository URL
Subject(s)
Description
Arachne is the central object-database of the German Archaeological Institute (DAI). In 2004 the DAI and the Research Archive for Ancient Sculpture at the University of Cologne (FA) joined the effort to support Arachne as a tool for free internet-based research.
Arachne's database design uses a model that builds on one of the most basic assumptions one can make about archaeology, classical archaeology or art history: all activities in these areas can most generally be described as contextualizing objects. Arachne tries to avoid the basic mistakes of earlier databases, which limited their object modeling to specific project-oriented aspects, thus creating separated containers of only a small number of objects. All objects inside Arachne share a general part of their object model, to which a more class-specific part is added that describes the specialised properties of a category of material like architecture or topography. Seen on the level of the general part, a powerful pool of material can be used for general information retrieval, whereas on the level of categories and properties, very specific structures can be displayed.
Contact
- idai.objects@dainst.de
- https://arachne.dainst.org/contact
Content type(s)
Repository size
4.726.201 entries
Repository type(s)
- disciplinary
Mission statement for designated community
Research data repository language(s)
- German
- English
Data and/or service provider
- service provider
Institution name
Additional name(s)
- DAI
- German Archaelological Institute
Identifier(s)
- ROR:041qv0h25
Country
Type(s) of responsibility
- general
- technical
- funding
Type of institution
non-profit
Institution name
Additional name(s)
- Arbeitsstelle für Digitale Archäologie
Country
Type(s) of responsibility
- general
- funding
Type of institution
non-profit
Policies (1)
Policy Name
Database access
Type of access to research data repository
open
Data access (2)
Type of access to data
open
Type of access to data
restricted
Data access restriction type(s)
- feeRequired
Data licenses (2)
DataLicense
DataLicense
Data upload (1)
Type of data upload
closed
Persistent identifier system(s)
- none
Name of the repository software
- MySQL
Versioning
yes
Data citation guideline
Enhanced Publication
yes
Quality management
yes
Remarks
Remarks
Availability of Arachne 3:
After a 20 year period of serving the archaeological community online, version 3 of Arachne can no longer be maintained as part of the open World Wide Web.
Project partners who still require access to Arachne 3 are advised to contact the Research Archive for Ancient Sculpture at the Institute of Archaeology of the University of Cologne.
Note: Arachne 3 and 4 (iDAI.objects) manage the same database content (datasets and digitised images). They differ only in aspects of data presentation, and interactive functionality for querying and editing data.
Entry date
2015-02-23
Last update
2023-09-22
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