The Anthropological and Archaeological Database of Sepultures

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  THANADOS – The Anthropological and Archaeological Database of Sepultures

  Hosted by:

  Natural History Museum Vienna (NHM Wien), Prehistoric Department

  & Austrian Archaeological Institute (ÖAI) / ÖAW

Kontakt / Contact

  Austria / Österreich

  Natural History Museum Vienna

  Kontaktperson: Mag. Dr. Stefan Eichert

  E-Mail: stefan.eichert@nhm-wien.ac.at

  Adresse: Burgring 7, 1010 Wien, Österreich

  Austrian Archaeological Institute (ÖAI / ÖAW)

  Kontaktperson: Nina Richards, MA BSc

  E-Mail: nina.richards@oeaw.ac.at

  Adresse: Rosenbursenstraße 3, 1010 Wien, Österreich

  Czechia / Tschechien

  Institute of Archaeology of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague

  Kontaktperson: Mgr. David Novák, Ph.D.

  E-Mail: novak@arup.cas.cz

  Adresse: Letenská 123/4, 118 01 Prague 1, Czechia

Über das Projekt / About the Project

  THANADOS (The Anthropological and Archaeological Database of Sepultures) deals with the digital collection and presentation of cemeteries investigated by means of archaeology, anthropology and related disciplines. Within THANADOS, information on burials is digitised according to FAIR principles and presented in English. The data are mapped using the CIDOC CRM and provided online. Users can explore the information via a digital catalogue and an interactive map. Cartographic visualisations as well as charts and plots are created dynamically based on research data.

  The project aims at providing a best-practice method for disseminating archaeological sources and research in the 21st century under the umbrella of digital humanities. THANADOS is based on the OpenAtlas system and is entirely built upon open-source technology. The project began in 2019 under the funding programme go!digital NextGeneration of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (GDND 2018-039). Since 2022, THANADOS is coordinated and hosted by the Natural History Museum Vienna. Through international cooperation, the system is continuously developed and new data are added.  

  THANADOS provides an online repository of all hitherto published Early Medieval cemeteries from present-day Austria (period ca. 600–1100 AD). The system is open to cooperation and can host datasets from any period. THANADOS does not claim completeness — instead, it offers a platform for thematic datasets that contributors wish to provide as Open Data in a standardised form. Data providers receive support in processing and integrating their data on a regional basis; the platform also offers aggregation into portals such as ARIADNEplus.  

Team / Project Team

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• Main Coordinator, Principal Investigator, Design & Programming: Stefan Eichert

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• Principal Investigator, Bioarchaeology, Digitisation & Translations: Nina Richards

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• Backend Programming: Alexander Watzinger, Bernhard Koschiček-Krombholz

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• AIS CR team (Czechia): Jan Hasil, David Novák, Ondřej Švejcar

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• Additional Support: Jan Belik, Christoph Hoffmann

Kooperationen & Partner / Cooperations & Partners

  Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities and Cultural Heritage (ACDH-CH)

  OpenAtlas

  Time Machine

  ARIADNEplus

  Austrian Archaeological Institute (ÖAI / ÖAW)

Lizenz / License

  The data provided by THANADOS are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0). The software itself is released under the MIT License.

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