SQL and Hypertext generation of stratigraphic adjacency matrices

Title

SQL and Hypertext generation of stratigraphic adjacency matrices

Creator(s)

Boast, Robin

Chapman, Dave

Date

1991

Is Part Of

Archeologia e Calcolatori

Volume

2

Pages

221-239

Language

eng

Rights

CC BY-NC-ND 4.0

URI

http://www.archcalc.cnr.it/journal/id.php?id=32

Zotero BiDiAr

https://www.zotero.org/groups/5293298/bidiar/items/AAD4DX8U/item-list

Abstract

As part of an on-going project for a London based Archaeological Information System, work on the automatic generation of stratigraphic adjacency matrices has been jointly undertaken by the Department of Urban Archaeology (MOL) and the Department of Photogrammetry and Survey (UCL). Such a program has been developed on an Apple Macintosh using SQL treewalking techniques (under Oracle RDBMS) and a Hypertext interface which handles graphic presentation and manages rule based drawing conventions (using Supercard object-oriented hypertext). The ultimate goal of this research is the creation of an interactive reporting structure which allows access to many levels of recorded and interpretive site information.