Presentation by Ruth Beusing and Marlene Scholtz, (DAI) Ariadne Workshop held prior to EAA 2013. Pilsen, Czech Republic 4 September 2013

1. www.arachne.uni-koeln.de
Research Archive for Ancient Sculpture
University of Cologne
Albertus Magnus Platz
D-50923 Cologne
German Archaeological Institute
Podbielskiallee 69-71
D-14195 Berlin

2. • object database as free internet research tool
• all objects: comparable & contextual background
• retrieval of either general information or complex contexts
of objects

3. • originally started as a database exclusively for ancient sculpture
• more objects of different categories and increased complexity
needed higher request à decision: use of international web
standards: TEI/ Dublin Core/ CidocCRM/ PMH/ XML
• Desire to support the open linked data web and to be part of
different webportals such as Ariadne

4. efforts within three example projects:
1. Emagines:
glas negatives digitized, implementend by using CRM and
integrated in other web resources

5. 2. iDAI.Bookbrowser, Reception of Antiquity in a Semantic Network:
engraved prints from the 16th and 19th century visible and
searchable by the TEI-Viewer offering meta-datas, OCR and further
links

6. 3. The Berlin Sculpture-Network:
online catalogue of the Antiquities Collection of the SBM with about
2,600 objects accessible and visible in arachne

7. Arachne in numbers:
• 1,7 milion images registered of which 1.400.000 are visible for everyone
• approximately 11.000 registered users can access 700.000 book pages in
about 3.650 books as well as 220.000 objects and buildings and 20.000
topographies
• contextualisation given by approximately 3.200.000 relations between
arachne records

23. www.propylaeum.de/en
-virtual library of antique relevant science books

32. www.clarosnet.org
- the world of art on the semantic web
www.europeana.eu

42. www.arachne.uni-koeln.de
contact for technical issues:
arachne@uni-koeln.de
for content issues:
arachne-eingabe@uni-koeln.de