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Implementation of the Core Data Standard
The core data standard presented here has been devised
within a theoretical framework which can be employed
in both manual and computer-based systems. Organisations
proposing to implement the data standard are likely
to build on the data standard and its theoretical framework
to meet their own recording needs. The standard prepared
by CIDOC draws much from the practical experience of
organisations that have already implemented heritage
databases, e.g., DKC, Denmark; MONARCH, England; DRACAR,
France; and ARCHIS, the Netherlands.
An important element of the data standard, and of archaeological
databases, is the means by which the various sections
are linked. The relationship between different categories
of information is as important as those individual categories
of information themselves. Thus within any database
implementing the data standard presented here, all sections
would need to be connected to section 2.1, which identifies
the monument or site, names the source of the record,
and provides the date on which the record was compiled.
However, in addition, other sections need to be closely
linked to each other. For example, there is a clear
need for a particularly close relationship to be established
between section 2.3 (Type) and section 2.4 (Dating)
in order to allow explicit links to be made between
monument or site type and period for multi-period monuments
or sites whose character changed through time, e.g.,
Enclosed Settlement/Bronze Age; Open Settlement/Iron
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