SOAS Library: Chinese art and archaeology collection

The Nautical Archaeology Digital Library

In Nautical Archaeology, the study of components and objects creates a complex environment for scholars and researchers. Nautical archaeologists access, manipulate, study, and consult a variety of sources from different media, geographical origins, ages, and languages. Representing underwater excavations is a challenging endeavor due to the large amount of information and data in heterogeneous ...

Raman Spectroscopy in Art and Archaeology

HAL is a multi-disciplinary open access archive for the deposit and dissemination of scientific research documents, whether they are published or not. The documents may come from teaching and research institutions in France or abroad, or from public or private research centers. L’archive ouverte pluridisciplinaire HAL, est destinée au dépôt et à la diffusion de documents scientifiques de niveau...

The Old Kingdom Art and Archaeology

Raman spectroscopy in art and archaeology.

The first chemical analyses of artworks and archaeological artefacts were accomplished historically and reported by Rene-Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur [1–4] in France in a series of publications between 1716 and 1739 and by Sir Humphry Davy [5] in the UK in 1815, respectively: the former appeared in the Memoires Academie de Sciences, Paris, on pottery, glass and porcelains and the latter on wall...

Metadata Integration for an Archaeology Collection Architecture

During the lifecycle of a research project, from the collection of raw data through study to publication, researchers remain active curators and decide how to present their data for future access and reuse. Thus, current trends in data collections are moving toward infrastructure services that are centralized, flexible, and involve diverse technologies across which multiple researchers work sim...