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Homepage of
"Serion Suite"
"Serion Suite"
is a program package for archaeology developed by Peter Stadler. With archaeological data entered
into image database Montelius it is possible to make typology with Drag 'n
Drop. Given such a typology, evaluation is at your fingertips.....
List of programs available or under
construction
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Program Name
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Description
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Serion Suite
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This
suite of programs is described below. The main intention of "Serion
Suite" is to speed up the evaluation work of an archaeologist by a
factor of about 100. Most time can be spared by setting up typology, which
is mostly the bottleneck in evaluation.
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WinSerion*)
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Flash-Demo
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Program
for evaluation of archaeological data. All kinds of seriations are possible
from Petrification to Correspondence analysis. Spatial evaluations are done
with "Analysis of the N Next Neighbors". Results are provided in
different formats. All graphics are available in EPS-Vector format. Results
of Reciprocal Averaging and Correspondence Analysis are also available in
WMF-Vectorformat and in a 3D-Rotation on screen. All input data for
WinSerion are provided by SPS2Serion.
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SPS2Serion*)
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Program
to convert data from different rectangular "Excel-like" data
structures into WinSerion format. Almost all data present in every days
life of an archaeologist can be converted. Like data from archaeology,
human biology, zoology, botany, archaeo-metallurgy etc. Metric values are
converted by applying mono- and polyvariate cluster analysis, where the
number of groups can be preselected. Background format is a multi tabbed
Excel file. It is also used to convert the format of Image database
Montelius into WinSerion format.
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Image Database Montelius*)
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The image database. Earlier we have done dynamic
typology by means of an image browser, such as ACDSee. Now typology can be
elaborated with MonteliusEditor. All views on the data provides
MonteliusBrowser. All the editing is done with MonteliusEditor.
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MonteliusEntry**)
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Flash-Demo 1:
Cutting out...
Flash-Demo 2:
Entering information...
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Rapid
input program for entering the images cut out from the scanned plates
together with a minimal information dataset for every image/object. With
this input program images are entered into a tree structure, which
also is used for the complex view below. About 60 objects can be entered
per hour by a trained person on the average. Description of features is
done by using implemented and changeable thesauri. With MonteliusEntry
about 620.000 images from European Pre- and Protohistory have already been
entered by about 60 archaeologists, students and volunteers.
MonteliusEntry is the input program into image
database Montelius and co-operates with an image editing program. By
avoiding redundancy in data collection, the images are positioned in
the correct place in the image database and the data for it is stored
in an appropriate Excel/Access database. In the latest version, it is
possible that all the necessary fields such as site and also quote are
entered in Unicode. This allows the use of all Eastern European special
characters (also entries in Cyrillic or even Chinese etc. are
possible).
Download a
recent version.
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MonteliusEntryBrowser***)
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Takes over the role previously ACDSee, an image
browser, has played. This browser is primarily used from MonteliusEntry,
the input images can be easily controlled. Additionally
Freeware Ultra Explorer
can be used as image browser, which is also Unicode-capable.
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MonteliusBrowser*)
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Image
database for typology with currently implemented 7 different views on the
image data:
- Complex view is similar to the way most
publications present the image data on plates, ordered according to
the closed find units.
- Typology view presents the images in that way,
which is needed for working on typology. Typology can be done with
Drag 'n Drop. All changes in the typology structure are immediately
brought to the "background" database.
- Co-workers: All data can be seen after the persons
who have entered them.
- Quotes: Here all images are presented after their
publications, corresponding to the figures and plates, containing the
corresponding images.
- Date & Time: Sometimes
it is necessary to study the data after date and time for the database
administrator, to better control and correct the input data of the
co-workers.
- Culture: If one wants to
deal with different cultures this is the best possibility to make a
standardization of the cultural adherence of the same find complexes,
which in publications could be quite different.
- Sites: If one tries to
locate sites on a global map it is necessary to make a standardization
of the site names. In different publications similar or also quite
different names could have been used for the same site. To make a
standardization this view mode is best qualified.
The
number of views can be easily extended.
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MonteliusEditor*)
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Flash-Demo 1: Complex and Typology View
Flash-Demo 2:
Typology with Drag'n Drop
New
Programm Demo for cemetery
of Hallstatt
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This is
the Editor for Montelius. All data can be seen in the same views as presented
by MonteliusBrowser. The difference is that every view can be edited. It
also helps to maintain the consistency of the whole database and is used in
this case only by the database administrator. In such a way all changes on
the whole database have to be done only once. More than that it allows to
maintain typology with Drag 'n Drop. This may be done for a cultural group
by someone participating in this project. It is easily possibly to have in
parallel different typologies in the same area.
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MonteliusSeparator****)
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This
utility is an image processing program, that helps to accelerate the
cutting out of the object images from one plate with the help of pattern
recognition. Work on it is still in progress. This program should speed up
the overall input with MonteliusEntry at least by 30%.
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Harris***)
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A Harris-Matrix
program. It can read format from ArchEd, but also contains its proprietary
format in Excel. It has some features especially designed for the
evaluation of overlay of graves in a cemetery. For the presentation of the
matrix a simple algorithm is implemented. We also plan to use in future the
"Sugiyama" algorithm, which benefits the overall improvement of
the matrix layout, optimized for the reduction of crossings of the
connection lines of the stratigraphical units. Most important will be the co-operation
with results from WinSerion. On one side seriation results can be shown in
the Harris-Matrix, on the other side strata information can be used in
seriations or mappings.
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Data already entered
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Here you
can study the datasets for the different cultures which have already been
entered into Montelius.
Download the
status as an Excel-File.
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Quotations
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Here you
find the literature database of about 10.000 monographs and articles. Not
everything has been scanned or entered, but every work has an exact
description of its input status.
Download the
whole literature database, which will be regularly updated.
Last update 03/07/2010.
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*) Available for
Project participants. **) Available for public.
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Date of last edition: 03/07/10 08:43:26
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