Towards archaeo-informatics: scientific data management for archaeobiology

  • Authors:
  • Hans-Peter Kriegel;Peer Kröger;Christiaan Hendrikus Van Der Meijden;Henriette Obermaier;Joris Peters;Matthias Renz

  • Affiliations:
  • Institute for Informatics, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany;Institute for Informatics, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany;Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany;State Collection of Anthropology and Palaeoanatomy Munich, Germany;Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany and State Collection of Anthropology and Palaeoanatomy Munich, Germany;Institute for Informatics, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany

  • Venue:
  • SSDBM'10 Proceedings of the 22nd international conference on Scientific and statistical database management
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

In this short paper we outline a novel and rich application domain for scientific data management: Archaeobiology. We give a short introduction to the key quests and issues in this research domain and derive a list of data management and data analysis tasks that requires original contributions from the Computer Science community and can initiate the birth of a new research discipline which we call Archaeo-Informatics. Furthermore, we describe a prototype for scientific data management called OSSOBOOK that meets many of the identified requirements of this application domain. In particular, OSSOBOOK is a distributed database system specially designed for Archaeobiology data management and analysis. Finally we give some future perspectives which is intended to serve as input for novel challenges for the Computer Science community.