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CD-ROM系统，这将使原始研究数据得以记录下来，并以低廉的价格分发给其他科学家。这些CD-ROM“出版物”将允许大量的视觉信息以高分辨率图片的形式共享，这些图片可以被检查、操纵和分析。在考古学的许多领域，这种视觉材料构成了重要的研究组成部分，但传统的出版成本使其不可能超过非常有限的数量。该综合系统将允许数字图像采集、处理和存档，并与多媒体编辑系统中用于组装数字图像、文本和其他图形（如AUTOCAD地图）的系统相连接。在初始阶段，该系统将用于三个主要领域：考古冶金。为了重建史前的冶金过程，必须详细检查成品和制造副产品，如炉渣。这些样品的显微薄片和抛光块将被记录下来，并附有文字、化学分析表和其他参考资料。2. 芭芭拉·米尔斯博士研究了陶瓷薄片，以重建史前西南印第安人的社会组织。安装在玻璃载玻片上的陶瓷薄片以及整个容器的摄影图像将被放入CD-ROM数据库。3. Steven Kuhn博士分析了来自欧洲和近东的石器工具。在通过CD-ROM提供的图像的基础上，可以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.