@inbook{PB-VRVis-2020-051,
author = {Kucera, Matthias and Neubauer, Wolfgang and M{\"u}ller, Sandra and Nowak, Milena and Torrejón-Valdelomar, Juan and Wallner, Mario and Hinterleitner, Alois and Lenzhofer, Andreas and Traxler, Christoph},
title = {The Tell el-Daba Archaeological Information System: Adding the Fourth Dimension to Legacy Datasets of Long-Term Excavations (A Puzzle in 4D)},
year = {2020},
booktitle = {Old Excavation Data. What Can We Do? - Proceedings of the Workshop held at the 10th International Congress on the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East (ICAANE) in Vienna},
doi = {doi:10.1553/0x003bca0e},
editor = {Edeltraud ASP{\"O}CK - Seta ŠTUHEC - Karin KOPETZKY - Matthias KUCERA},
url = {https://www.vrvis.at/publications/PB-VRVis-2020-051},
publisher = {Verlag der {\"O}sterreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften},
pages = {101-120},
abstract = {Archaeological research relies on the documentation and analysis of archaeological entities in space and time, i.e. the stratigraphic ordering of these units, resulting in a stratigraphic sequence. A GIS-based Archaeological Information System (AIS) organises archaeological entities and associated attributable information according to its specific three-dimensional geographical position based on the framework provided by a Geographical Information System (GIS). To compile a stratigraphic sequence of these entities located in space, the GIS-based AIS must be extended by a fourth dimension {\textendash} time. The paper presents the associated extension of ArcGIS (ESRI) by a stratigraphic sequence composer with an integrated interval-based time model as the basic digital environment for spatio-temporal analysis of archaeological excavation datasets. The long-term excavation at Tell el-Daba, Egypt was chosen as a case study to evaluate the applicability of various digital analysis tools using a geo-referenced 4D AIS on non-digital and incomplete excavation datasets. As most existing archaeological excavation datasets are based upon long-term inconsistent and analogue data, it is crucial to integrate and handle such data to ensure their accessibility for state-of-the-art archaeological spatio-temporal data analysis.},
keywords = {GIS-based archaeological information system (AIS), 4D GIS, spatio-temporal analysis, legacy dataset, comparability, Allen‘s interval algebra, stratigraphic sequencing tool},
}