Project Details
Projekt
AEGARON - Ancient Egyptian Architecture Online A repository for standardized architectural information and drawings
Subject Area
Egyptology and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Term
from 2009 to 2013
Project identifier
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 126893437
The German Archaeological Institute Cairo (DAIK) and the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) are cooperating in the project to present, document, and publish architectural data on ancient Egyptian monuments in a standardized way, while assuring sustainable access and data preservation. The project aims to improve the present state of architectural representations by providing redrawn, standardized and vetted plans, based on existing publications and in selected cases field checking. The information will be documented and searchable through extensive metadata, and presented as an online archive of images (TIFF and JPEG) to scale, as well as CAD files. The project is based on the collection, redrawing and assessment of existing published, and in some cases unpublished plans. The production of the metadata will help identify and prioritize needs for further documentation, and provide entirely new research questions and agendas. The architectural representations will be made freely available through the DAI website, the UCLA Digital Library, as well as the online UCLA Encyclopedia of Egyptology Open Version (UEE Open Version), and will be integrated in the subscription based UEE Full Version with extensive links to articles, photographs, and the interactive time map (see http://www.uee.ucla.edu/screensamples.htm). Access and long term sustainability of the images and the metadata is guaranteed through the UCLA Digital Library in cooperation with the UEE Full Version. The selection of objects to be described, redrawn and published in the three year project provides a well balanced archive which gives a complete overview of the most important architectural building types, material elements and individual monuments. Updates and augmentations, as well as three dimensional Virtual Reality components will be realized through a combination of additional fund raising and projected income from the UEE Full Version.
DFG Programme
Cataloguing and Digitisation (Scientific Library Services and Information Systems)
International Connection
USA
Applicant Institution
Deutsches Archäologisches Institut (DAI)
Partner Organisation
National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)
