Corinth Excavations Digital Resources
A. ELECTRONIC TEXTS
1. Excavation manual is updated regularly and available on the website in PDF
a. This needs formatted and cross referenced with the database to create a help file.
2. Transcribed notebooks
a. Seven notebooks- Blegen’s Korakou excavations and the South Stoa excavations in DOC format.
b. These need to be marked up and integrated into the database.
B. EXCAVATION DATABASE MS Access relational database for excavation contexts, context pottery, coins, registered objects, photos, and drawings.
1. Availability
a. Live at Hill house and Museum wireless intranet
b. Supported and updated regularly at ascsa.net
c. Unsupported, unedited, static snapshot at EU Digital Library.
d. Data structure has been made available to many archaeological projects on request.
2. Progress in main categories
a. Contexts- 73445 records including placeholder records from EU project, uncountable backlog
b. Photos- 147843 records, 100% complete
c. Architectural Drawings- 3557 records. 50% complete
d. Coins- 29234 records including placeholder records, 10% complete (90% exist on paper records)
e. Registered objects- 50801 including placeholder records, 20% complete (80% exist on paper records)
f. Notebook index (preliminary index completed in EU project but more work necessary)
i. Context links- 199380 records
ii. Page spreads- 118655 records
iii. Collection links- 175023 records
3. Current work or To Do
a. Cataloguing new excavation data
b. Coin study collection
c. South Stoa Wells and Hellenistic Pottery
d. Notebook indexing (EU project completed an initial index but more detailed work is necessary)
4. Other local databases
a. Room and Board billing (MS access)
b. Food bills (MS access)
c. Accounting
d. Library card catalog and offprints (hardcopy only)
C. DIGITAL IMAGES.
1. Availability
a. Low resolution available at ascsa.net and EU Digital Library.
b. High res available on Hill House intranet
2. Image type and count.
a. Drawings (514Gb) all new are born digital
i. Architectural 7100 total, 5.9.2009, 100% scanned from EU project
ii. Pottery profiles 1407 total, 5.9.2009
iii. Excavation contexts 3305 total, 5.9.2009, 884 added in 2009
b. Film and Glass Negatives (100% scanned from EU project) 1.0Tb
i. 4939 color slides unmodified some with harsh color cast due to age
ii. 5519 glass plates, many poorly exposed or developed and thus poorly scanned in many cases
iii. 1676 sheet negs
iv. 103821 35mm strip negs
c. Digital photos (13Gb, 6684 total, 5.9.2009) added ca. 1500 in 2009
d. 1096 Notebooks (237,000 pages, 37Gb in Corinth but no space on server for full resolution images) 100% of field notebooks scanned by EU project
3. To Do
a. Scan inventory and coin cards ca. 200,000??
b. Context pottery lot books
c. Williams DB sheets with artifact inventories
D. GIS DATA Geo-referenced spatial information for the Corinthia shared on request
1. Topographical survey from 1999 to present in .txt and .dwg
a. New excavations
b. ΛΖ Ephoreia and Ergose train and road rescue excavations
c. Corinth Excavations material from 1896 to 1998
2. Geophysical magnetometry and electrical resistance imaging from 2000 to 2004
3. Geo-referenced archival drawings in raster format