ARACHNE IDAI.objects
Arachne is the central object-database of the German Archaeological Institute (DAI). In 2004 the DAI and the Research Archive for Ancient Sculpture at the University of Cologne (FA) joined the effort to support Arachne as a tool for free internet-based research. Arachne's database design uses a model that builds on one of the most basic assumptions one can make about archaeology, classical archaeology or art history: all activities in these areas can most generally be described as contextualizing objects. Arachne tries to avoid the basic mistakes of earlier databases, which limited their object modeling to specific project-oriented aspects, thus creating separated containers of only a small…
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| Website | https://arachne.dainst.org/ |
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| Subjects | Humanities and Social Sciences · Humanities · Ancient Cultures · History · Fine Arts, Music, Theatre and Media Studies · Classical Archaeology · Art History |
| Last updated | 2026-09-24 |