Tell el Daba – A Puzzle in 4D

Tell el-Daba – ‘A Puzzle in 4D’, led by Barbara Horejs from OREA (since 2021 ÖAI), is a project dealing primarily with harmonizing, digitizing, long term archiving and making accessible archaeological data (see here for a detailed project description). The data which the project deals with was gathered over the last 50 years in the context of excavations at Tell el-Daba (TED) in Egypt. Field drawings, sketches, photographs and other research materials are currently being digitized and systematically described by OREA.

The role of the ACDH-CH is to make this heterogenous data sets accessible through an online platform and assure the long time accessibility of this material.

The project consists of two main parts:

1. Creation of an archive to ensure the preservation of analogue and digital TED resources including the digitization of analogue resources, enrichment with metadata for long-term archiving and open-access online publication.
2. Development of a tool for the integration of data according to their spatio-temporal relationship and for 4D post-excavation processing of excavation legacy data LBI ArchPro.