ABSTRACT
CONTENTS 7.1 Introduction ..................................................................................................99 7.2 Characteristics of Archaeological Information and a Site Survey.....100 7.3 Differences between Japanese and European Techniques in Data
Recording and Organizing Archaeological Survey Data....................101 7.4 Object-Oriented GIS and an Archaeological-Information
Database ......................................................................................................103 7.4.1 Two Kinds of GIS Data Models ..................................................103 7.4.2 Standardization of Geographic Information and UML..........104 7.4.3 Data Modeling of Archaeological Information and the
General-Feature Model.................................................................105 7.5 European Stratigraphic-Sequence Diagrams Using the Harris
Matrix and UML Modeling on Japanese Drawings of Archaeological Features............................................................................108 7.5.1 Class Representing the Archaeological Site
(Archaeological Site Class)..............................................................108 7.5.2 Drawing of Archaeological Features and
Stratigraphic-Sequence Diagram ................................................109 7.6 Conclusion .................................................................................................. 111 References............................................................................................................. 112
This chapter illustrates a data model for archaeological sites that enables exchange of data among archaeological communities around the world. The first section describes the nature of archaeological site data. The second
section shows the difference between the Japanese data model and the Western data model (i.e., the Harris Matrix model). The third section discusses an object-oriented model for recording archaeological site data in comparison with the traditional layer-based model. This section also explains the procedure for this modeling and a method of implementing it with the Unified Modeling Language (UML). The fourth section applies the UML to both the Japanese data model and the Harris Matrix model. The sixth section concludes the chapter with remarks on the common data model that can be shared with researchers throughout the world.
