DATASETS

 

Geographical scope

The initial geographical scope is primarily Sweden, Scandinavia and Europe, reflecting the contents of the initial main data sources: The Environmental Archaeology Lab (MAL) at Umeå University, and the BugsCEP dataset.  Further partnerships are being established in order to incorporate or collaborate with other datasets in the future, and a data exchange/mirroring partnership exists with the internationally renowned Neotoma paleoecology database and community. A long term plan is for SEAD form the national database infrastructure for a Consortium of Archaeological Research Laboratories (ArchLab).

As part of the VISEAD project data from three of the members of ArchLab will be ingested during a 3-year period. These labs are The Laboratory for Ceramic Research and The Swedish National laboratory for wood anatomy and dendrochronology at Lund University, and The Archaeological Research Lab at Stockholm University.

The pictures below give an indication of the geographical scope of the data currently in, or being processed for ingestion into, SEAD. With time all of these datasets and more will be available online as virtual constiutent databases.

 

Currently in SEAD

 

There are currently 1 655 sites in SEAD, with 15 000 datasets connected to them.

 

 

MAL Dataset

Data held by the Environmental Archaeology Lab, Umeå:
http://www.idesam.umu.se/english/mal/projects/

 

 

Bugs dataset

The BugsCEP fossil insect database:
http://www.bugscep.com/help/help_databaseoverview.html

 

 

KFL Ceramic thin section dataset

 

Data held by the Laboratory for Ceramic Research (KFL), Lund

 

As a part of the VISEAD project 421 sites with thin-sections from different ceramic objects was imported into SEAD. These include data from 3 499 thin sections analysed at the ceramics lab.

 

 

VDL pilot project dataset

Test dataset from the Laboratory for Wood Anatomy and Dendrochronology, Lund (VDL)
https://www.geology.lu.se/research/laboratories-equipment/laboratory-wood-anatomy-and-dendrochronology

 

A test dataset of dendrochronological data from Småland, Sweden was imported as a part of the VISEAD project. The newly digitzed archives at VDL, Lund is currently being processed for import into SEAD.

 

 

AFL Stable isotope and lipids dataset

Test dataset from the Archaeological Research Laboratory, Stockholm (AFL dataset)
http://www.archaeology.su.se/english/archaeological-research-laboratory

 

We are currently discussing an appropriate test dataset for ingestion into SEAD.