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Welcome to OCHRE |
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The “Online Cultural Heritage Research Environment” (OCHRE) is an Internet database system for cultural heritage information. It is intended for researchers engaged in artifactual and textual studies of various kinds. It is especially suitable (1) for organizing and publishing the results of archaeological excavations and surveys and (2) for preparing and disseminating philological text editions and dictionaries. OCHRE is currently being tested and refined by several pilot projects. An online help system and detailed user manual are under development. When testing and documentation are completed, OCHRE will be made available to other researchers. For more information, please contact David Schloen at the University of Chicago. Purpose and Scope OCHRE encompasses the varied evidence of past human activity, written and unwritten, within a flexible yet coherent framework. It has a simple basic structure—a “core ontology”—within which it can integrate data of diverse origins. Archaeologists and philologists work with information that is (1) derived from multiple sources; (2) recorded in diverse formats, as photographs, drawings, maps, structured tables, and unstructured text; and (3) described using different taxonomies. OCHRE is designed to organize such information into a coherent, easily searchable corpus, not only within a given research project, but also across multiple projects. OCHRE can support an unlimited number of research projects, enabling each project to control its information and share it with others while still preserving its own terminology. The system has been thoroughly tested by several archaeological and philological projects based at the University of Chicago, Harvard University, the University of California at Los Angeles, the University of Southern California, the University of Toronto, Brigham Young University, and elsewhere. Technical Requirements OCHRE uses the Java Runtime Environment (version 5.0 or later), which comes preinstalled on most computers. If you do not have Java, or are not sure you have the latest version, click here to install Java, free of charge, and then click the “Start OCHRE” button on the left to download the OCHRE software. Apple Macintosh users must have OS X 10.4 or higher. OCHRE requires a high-speed Internet connection, at least 512 MB of main memory, and a screen resolution of at least 1024 × 768 pixels. [Last revised on March 30, 2009.]
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Dr. David Schloen Associate Professor University of Chicago 1155 East 58th Street Chicago, Illinois 60637 |
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Online Cultural Heritage Research Environment Developed at the University of Chicago to integrate cultural heritage data—within one research project or across many different projects. |
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