An Integrated System for Digital Image Acquisition, Image Processing, and CD-Rom Publishing in Archaeology

在国家科学基金会的支持下，大卫·基利克博士和亚利桑那大学将购买一个光盘系统，该系统将允许记录主要的研究数据，并以低廉的价格分发给其他科学家。这些CD-ROM“出版物”将使人们能够以高分辨率图片的形式分享大量视觉信息，这些图片的形式可以检查、操作和分析。在考古学的许多领域，这种视觉材料形成了一个重要的研究组成部分，但传统的出版成本使其不切实际的呈现超过一个非常有限的数量。 该综合系统将允许数字图像的获取、处理和存档，并与一个在多媒体编辑系统中汇编数字图像、文本和其他图形（如AUTOCAD地图）的系统相连接。在其初始阶段，该系统将用于三个主要领域：1。考古冶金学。为了重建史前冶金过程，必须详细检查成品文物以及生产副产品，如炉渣。 将记录此类样品的显微薄切片和抛光块，并使用文本、化学分析表和其他参考辅助工具进行注释。2.芭芭拉米尔斯博士研究了陶瓷薄片，以重建史前西南美洲土著人的社会组织。将载玻片上的陶瓷薄片以及整个血管的摄影图像放入CD-ROM数据库中。3.史蒂芬·库恩博士分析了来自欧洲和近东的石器。根据通过光盘提供的图像，将有可能进行广泛的属性分析。

With National Science Foundation support, Dr. David Killick and the University of Arizona will purchase a CD-ROM system which will permit primary research data to be recorded and distributed inexpensively to other scientists. These CD-ROM `publications` will allow large amounts of visual information to be shared as high resolution pictures in a form which can be inspected, manipulated and analyzed. In many areas of archaeology, such visual material forms an essential research component but traditional publishing costs make it impractical to present more than a very limited amount. The integrated system will permit digital image acquisition, processing and archiving, linked to a system for assembling digital images, text and other graphics (such as AUTOCAD maps) in a multimedia editing system. In its initial phase, the system will be used for three main areas: 1. Archaeological metallurgy. To reconstruct prehistoric metallurgical processes both finished artifacts as well as manufacturing byproducts such as slag must be examined in detail. Microscopic thin sections and polished blocks of such samples will be recorded and annotated with text, tables of chemical analyses and other references aids. 2. Dr. Barbara Mills has examined ceramic thin sections to reconstruct prehistoric Southwestern Native American social organization. Ceramic thin sections mounted on glass slides as well as photographic images of whole vessels will be placed in a CD-ROM data base. 3. Dr. Steven Kuhn analyzes stone tools from both Europe and the Near East. On the basis of images available through CD-ROM it will be possible to conduct extensive attribute analyses.