State of interest: why CHIPS DB?

«««< HEAD Despite the existence of a consensus in favour of a global and shared repository for chemical data associated with ironworking, no initiative to establish a global source of such reference data had been undertaken until now in the iron archaeometallurgy research field. The aim of the CHIPS database is to provide such information to anyone interested in ancient iron mining, smelting and smithing activities. It relies on a simple data structure whose backbone is composed of a context-sample-chemistry triplet. Each of these components is described by metadata designed either to assess the quality of the data or to favour interoperability. The chemical data stored in the DB can then be used mainly to address questions linked either to techniques (material chosen by metallurgists, temperature of the operation, etc.) or to the circulation of raw materials or metallic products (provenance studies).

Despite the existence of a consensus in favour of a global and shared repository for chemical data associated with ironworking, no initiative to establish a global source of such reference data had been undertaken until now in the iron archaeometallurgy research field. The aim of the CHIPS database is to provide such information to anyone interested in ancient iron mining, smelting and smithing activities.
It relies on a simple data structure whose backbone is composed of a context-sample-chemistry triplet. Each of these components is described by metadata designed either to assess the quality of the data or to favour interoperability.
The chemical data stored in the DB can then be used mainly to address questions linked either to techniques (material chosen by metallurgists, temperature of the operation, etc.) or to the circulation of raw materials or metallic products (provenance studies).

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