597 Norwegian excavation databases and CIDOC CRM - a practical exercise

This presentation addresses the practical exercise of aligning 597 Norwegian excavation databases from INTRASIS using CIDOC CRM.

In Norway, INTRASIS has been the standard excavation documentation system since 2010: INTRASIS is extremely flexible and can be adapted to most excavation practices. This is done through a user defined metadata template, in which one can define object classes, subclasses, attributes and relations between the classes, as well as how these will be visualised on the maps. The flexibility also has a downside, since it can be hard to export data into a common database from a series of excavation databases based on adapted templates. As a result, a complete data integration requires some extra data cleaning. The process being used to achieve this and to link all the excavation datasets is described.