ARACHNE IDAI.objects

Arachne is the central object-database of the German Archaeological Institute (DAI). In 2004 the DAI and the Research Archive for Ancient Sculpture at the University of Cologne (FA) joined the effort to support Arachne as a tool for free internet-based research. Arachne's database design uses a model that builds on one of the most basic assumptions one can make about archaeology, classical archaeology or art history: all activities in these areas can most generally be described as contextualizing objects. Arachne tries to avoid the basic mistakes of earlier databases, which limited their object modeling to specific project-oriented aspects, thus creating separated containers of only a small number of objects. All objects inside Arachne share a general part of their object model, to which a more class-specific part is added that describes the specialised properties of a category of material like architecture or topography. Seen on the level of the general part, a powerful pool of material can be used for general information retrieval, whereas on the level of categories and properties, very specific structures can be displayed.

Arachne，作为德国考古研究所（DAI）的核心对象数据库，汇聚了丰富的学术资源。自2004年起，DAI与科隆大学古代雕塑研究档案馆（FA）携手，共同致力于将Arachne打造为一款基于免费互联网的研究工具。Arachne的数据库设计理念基于考古学、古典考古学或艺术史中最基本的假设之一：这些领域的所有活动均可概括为对物体的语境化描述。Arachne力求避免早期数据库的固有缺陷，即仅将物体建模局限于特定项目导向的方面，从而形成了仅包含少量物体的独立容器。Arachne内部的所有物体都共享其对象模型的一般部分，在此基础上，根据特定类别如建筑或地形等物质的专门属性，附加更具有针对性的部分。在一般部分的视角下，Arachne可提供强大的信息检索资源；而在类别与属性层面，则可展示出极为具体的结构。