The ARchaeological Organic residues Literature Database (AROLD): Construction of a tool for reviewing and querying published lipid data in organic residue analysis

The first attempts to identify amorphous organic substances in archaeology date the end of 19th century and beginning 20th century. 1960s saw development infrared spectrometry, then separative mass spectrometry analyses were implemented 1980s. But it is only since 1990s that extended systematic research programmes devoted these substances. number publications has not stopped growing becoming exponential. To get an overview lipid studies archaeology, we conceived ARchaeological Organic residues Literature Database (AROLD) as a structured collaborative tool. This paper describes challenges setting up such database, details its architecture, presents choices involved implementation, discusses possibilities sharing evolving this