THE ENGLISH HERITAGE GEOPHYSICAL SURVEY DATABASE: PART I: STRUCTURE AND DEFINITIONS
Author(s): P Cottrell, Paul Linford
This document, Part I, is the first of two reports detailing the design and implementation of the English Heritage Geophysical Survey Database. This database is intended to store detail of all geophysical surveys undertaken by the Archaeometry Branch of the Ancient Monuments Laboratory, as well as information about all other geophysical surveys undertaken in England for archaeological purposes of which the Branch is aware. It has been implemented as a relational database using Oracle version 7 running on the Laboratory's database server and public access is provided to much of the information via the Internet using a World Wide Web front end. The purpose of this first report is to document definitions for the structure and content of the database at an abstract level; it also provides necessary background to the project and outlines considerations that influenced the design adopted. As far as possible, the main document avoids details of the practical realisation of the database in Oracle but information about the SQL scripts used to create the database and the constraints and checks necessary to ensure its integrity is provided in appendix 2. No mention is made of the user interfaces provided to update and interrogate the database; discussion of these is deferred until Part II.
- Report Number:
- 72/1996
- Series:
- AML Reports (New Series)
- Pages:
- 42
- Keywords:
- Geophysical Survey
