In 1993 the Early Bronze Age workshop and habitation site of Goltepe and its associated tin mine, Kestel, became the newest members of the Oriental Institute excavation roster. Excavations at Goltepe during the 1993 season were directed by K. Ashhan Yener and were designed to illuminate the origins, formation, and organization of tin production in the central Taurus Mountains of Turkey. Discove...

In June of 2012, I commenced the weighty task of searching the far reaches of Phoenix Art Museum's digital storage spaces to import images into a recently acquired collection management system, The Museum System (TMS). Before my newly created position as Visual Resource Coordinator began, each department generated and stored assets with their own organizational system in digital silos. I excava...

Data from archaeological excavation is suitable for computerization although they bring challenges typical of working in non-scientific subjective areas. We present some issues with regard data modeling in the specific field of archaeology.

Background: Pulmonary nodular excavation should firstly evoke tuberculosis or necrosis broncho-pulmonary tumor, particularly: epidermoid carcinoma. The case discussed here illustrated these difficulties in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Case Presentation: A 63-year-old woman was presented with a-three-year history of RA and a recent discovery of an excavated pulmonary nodule. Initi...

Motion measurements obtained from a maneuvering 1/16-scale dragline excavation system using a six camera motion capture system are compared against motion predictions of the same scenario using a complex dragline excavation system simulation. The dynamic model includes motion of the bucket, spreader bar, hoist cluster, and drag cluster, along with flexible rope and chain segments including the ...

With the large-scale construction and rapid development of underground engineering, a large number of underground engineering construction, such as tunnel and subway emerged. The geological structure of the tunnel is complex and the roc is fragmented. Tunnel seismic image is a new geophysical technique. This method has advantages such as high resolution, high reliability and obvious image chara...

We are developing a collaborative system for offsite visualization of an archaeological dig site through both virtual and augmented reality. Multiple users, wearing tracked, head-worn, see-through displays, can interact with the environment using tracked, instrumented gloves, a multi-user, multi-touch, projected table surface, large wall displays and tracked hand-held displays. We take advantag...

As the Semantic Web gains momentum, so grows the interest in making knowledge kept in various repositories available. In this paper we describe a case study using a methodological approach for porting cultural repositories to the Semantic Web. The approach consists of thesaurus conversion, meta-data schema mapping, meta-data value mapping, and thesauri alignment. It is derived from our experien...