STG Projects and Consulting

Monarch (pilot)

http://dev.stg.brown.edu/projects/Monarch/

STG lead(s):

Julia Flanders, Kerri Hicks, Morris Hirsch, Elli Mylonas

For Monarch, STG put together a website that foregrounds the spatial aspects of the archaeological site, and links to other information through them. We designed three connected systems to represent text, site plans and artifacts. The English and Latin text of the customary, the monastery's handbook, is encoded in XML using the TEI guidelines. A detailed set of subject keywords are encoded at the division, paragraph, and phrase level, allowing for detailed retrieval of particular terms and topics. The system also includes a database which contains records of individual artifacts found at the site. At the center is a site plan to which the artifacts' locations and the customary's discussions are linked, allowing the reader to explore the architecture, its use, and material record.

Sheila Bonde has been excavating the medieval monastery of St. Jean-des-Vignes in Soissons, France since 1982. Together with her co-director, Clark Maines (Wesleyan University), they have been investigating forms of digital publication that will make it easy to link spatial data such as site plans, elevations and photographs of the site to the customary, a handbook that prescribes the structure of daily and religious life for this particular monastery.

Principal Investigator(s) or Parent Project Lead(s):
Sheila Bonde Art History, Brown University

Research domains:

other

Type:

project

Links:
Monarch website at Wesleyan	http://www.wesleyan.edu/monarch

STG involvement initiated:	July 2001		Status:	hosting
			Funding support:	STG Faculty Grant

Contact:

STG_info@brown.edu

Record last modified: 14-Sep-2005