TY - JOUR
T1 - Tool development for digital reconstruction
T2 - A framework for a database of historic Roman construction materials
AU - Napolitano, Rebecca
AU - Jennings, Catherine
AU - Feist, Sophia
AU - Rettew, Abigail
AU - Sommers, Grace
AU - Smagh, Hannah
AU - Hicks, Benjamin
AU - Glisic, Branko
N1 - Funding Information:
This project would not have been possible without the generosity, patience, and guidance of the Center for Digital Humanities at Princeton as well as the CDH database cohort. Additionally, the authors are grateful for fruitful discussions with Bernadette Reinhart. This work was supported by the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering , the Department of Art and Archaeology , the Council on Science and Technology , the Dean's Fund for Innovation , and the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Princeton . This material is based on work supported by the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program under Grant No. DGE-1656466 . Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.
Funding Information:
This project would not have been possible without the generosity, patience, and guidance of the Center for Digital Humanities at Princeton as well as the CDH database cohort. Additionally, the authors are grateful for fruitful discussions with Bernadette Reinhart. This work was supported by the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, the Department of Art and Archaeology, the Council on Science and Technology, the Dean's Fund for Innovation, and the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Princeton. This material is based on work supported by the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program under Grant No. DGE-1656466. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.
PY - 2019/11/1
Y1 - 2019/11/1
N2 - Despite the fact that digital reconstructions of historic structures and sites are a rich asset for understanding both humanistic and scientific facets of the past, tools to ease the generation of accurate models are lacking. This work presents an interactive database of historic Roman construction materials which was designed specifically for the purposes of aiding in digital reconstructions. For the scope of this work, only ancient Roman timber and stone construction materials were agglomerated. However, the framework for the database was constructed so that it could be easily expanded to other geographic locations, materials, and time periods. Based on the results of a survey, the user interface and schema for the database were developed. The information in the database can be searched in two main ways: (1) a user can click on an interactive geographic map to find pertinent materials if they know their location and (2) a user can search for where a material was found based on its name. Additionally, the database was generated in a flexible manner so that new information can be added by registered users. This promotes further development of the database and encourages future tools for digital reconstruction to be designed in a similarly dynamic manner.
AB - Despite the fact that digital reconstructions of historic structures and sites are a rich asset for understanding both humanistic and scientific facets of the past, tools to ease the generation of accurate models are lacking. This work presents an interactive database of historic Roman construction materials which was designed specifically for the purposes of aiding in digital reconstructions. For the scope of this work, only ancient Roman timber and stone construction materials were agglomerated. However, the framework for the database was constructed so that it could be easily expanded to other geographic locations, materials, and time periods. Based on the results of a survey, the user interface and schema for the database were developed. The information in the database can be searched in two main ways: (1) a user can click on an interactive geographic map to find pertinent materials if they know their location and (2) a user can search for where a material was found based on its name. Additionally, the database was generated in a flexible manner so that new information can be added by registered users. This promotes further development of the database and encourages future tools for digital reconstruction to be designed in a similarly dynamic manner.
KW - Construction materials
KW - Database
KW - Digital reconstruction
KW - Roman
KW - Stone
KW - Timber
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U2 - 10.1016/j.culher.2019.05.007
DO - 10.1016/j.culher.2019.05.007
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85066240804
SN - 1296-2074
VL - 40
SP - 113
EP - 123
JO - Journal of Cultural Heritage
JF - Journal of Cultural Heritage
ER -