Capability for Human Bioarchaeology and Digital Collections

布拉德福德大学拥有庞大的数字遗产收藏，来自其世界领先的人类骨骼遗骸收藏，遗产遗址和博物馆收藏的3D复制，以及对失落景观的大规模海洋调查。然而，随着时间的推移，分析和访问这些集合已成为技术基础设施的限制。通过升级这一基础设施，将有可能整合我们的数字收藏，并与研究人员和公众在线共享，从而更好地利用这些数据进行研究和教育。升级将涉及两个主要部分，即升级数据共享技术和升级数据采集技术。该大学通过其数字化疾病项目在线使用数字化数据，研究人员在该项目中访问了由一系列疾病引起的骨改变的图像。这促进了我们的数字遗产能力，今天在多学科研究中受到高度重视。近十年后，技术已经发展，为了确保研究人员继续有效和高质量地访问我们的收藏，对更新的数字基础设施进行投资至关重要。通过升级我们的IT能力，我们将能够通过一个稳定和安全的在线平台与研究人员和教育工作者分享我们的大部分收藏。数字化疾病的起点是生物人类学研究中心（BARC）分享人类骨骼遗骸的数据。BARC是国际研究的焦点，专门从事现代和古代人类骨骼遗骸的分析。这些是脆弱的资源，可能在处理过程中意外损坏，有时需要作为复杂分析程序的一部分进行销毁。因此，这样一个集合的管理涉及到保护和研究要求的仔细评估，并需要获得最高标准的设施，以最大限度地提高效益，同时最大限度地减少处理。从人类遗骸中获取数字数据时，确保考虑两件事非常重要。1)分辨率-数字副本需要捕捉尽可能精细的细节，以便可以代替原始样本进行分析2）所使用的技术是适当的和最佳的-以便不浪费有限和脆弱的资源。因此，该项目旨在沿着升级我们的生化分析设施，并采用微尺度3D记录方法。通过将我们的X射线能力升级到专用的CT和微型CT设施，我们将能够以最少的标本处理捕获更多的信息，提高我们作为人类生物考古学研究成像领先中心的世界级能力。布拉德福德开创了广泛的遗产需求，包括联合国教科文组织世界遗产;复杂的历史环境-覆盖密集的城市环境;多样化的农村景观环境;与商业和国家遗产机构互动的跨国规模海洋调查。我们的工作与过去的遗产景观，历史环境和当代环境的今天。我们有大量的收藏品，需要得到快速变化的技术的支持，这些技术是由研究界的问题推动的。整合数据共享和数字捕获设施是核心目标。通过增加从人类遗骸收集中获得的数据，并将其与我们收集的环境和地点数据相结合，将创造一个丰富的数字可检索和可搜索的研究环境。这特别允许将我们的生物收藏置于现实世界或重建的数字环境中，为研究人员和教育工作者提供丰富的虚拟环境。

The University of Bradford has an immense digital heritage collection, generated from its world-leading collection of human skeletal remains, 3D replication of heritage sites and museum collections, and large-scale marine surveys of lost landscapes. However over time the analysis of and access to this collection has become limited by the technical infrastructure. By upgrading this infrastructure it will be possible to integrate our digital collections and share them online with researchers and the public, allowing much greater use of this data for research and education. Upgrading will involve two main components, upgrading the data sharing technology and upgrading the data capture technology. The University led on use of digitised data online through its Digitised Diseases project, where researchers accessed images of bone modifications that resulted from a range of diseases. This catalysed our digital heritage capabilities that are today highly regarded in multi-disciplinary research. Almost a decade later, technology has moved on and to ensure researchers continue to have useful and quality access to our collections, investment in refreshed digital infrastructure is of critical importance. By upgrading our IT capacity we will be able to share a majority or our collections with researchers and educators through a stable and secure online platform. The starting point for Digitised Diseases was the sharing of data on human skeletal remains by the Biological Anthropology Research Centre (BARC). BARC, a focal point for international research, specialises in the analysis of modern and ancient human skeletal remains. These are a fragile resource that can be accidentally damaged through handling and sometimes need to be destroyed as part of complex analysis procedures. As a result the management of such a collection involves the careful evaluation of conservation and research requirements and needs access to facilities of the highest standard to maximise benefit while minimising handling. When capturing digital data from human remains it is very important to ensure two things are considered. 1) Resolution - Digital copies need to capture the finest details possible so that they can be analysed instead of the original sample 2) The techniques used are appropriate and optimal - so that the limited and fragile resource is not wasted. This project therefore aims to upgrade our biochemical analysis facilities along with microscale 3D documentation methods. By upgrading our x-ray capabilities to a dedicated CT and micro-CT facility we will be able to capture much more information with minimal handling of specimens, improving our world-class capability as a leading hub for imaging in human bioarchaeology research. Bradford has pioneered prospection for wide-ranging heritage needs encompassing UNESCO World Heritage Sites; complex historic environments - covering dense urban settings; diverse rural landscapes environments; trans-national scale marine surveys interacting with commercial and national heritage agencies. We work with past heritage landscapes, the historic environment and the contemporary environment today. We have immense collections that need to be supported by rapidly changing technology that is fuelled by the questions from the research community. Integrating data sharing and digital capture facilities is the core goal. By increasing the data available from the human remains collection and combining it with environmental and site data in our collections a rich digital discoverable and searchable research environment will be created. This specifically allows capacity to place our biological collections within real-world or reconstructed digital environments, providing a rich virtual environment for researchers and educators.