oeai.METRIX is a web application designed to host the diverse and extensive archaeometric collection of the Austrian Archaeological Institute. Materials that cover multiple regions and periods, such as thin sections of ceramics, pottery sherds, stone, clay samples, glasses, metals, pigments, etc. as well as their petrographic, geochemical, and mineralogical data can be accessed and downloaded.
Originally conceived as an expansion of the Fingerprinting White Marbles Project, oeai.METRIX was designed to be a long-term solution that would bring together diverse archaeometric projects and collections with differing needs, providing easy online access in one location.
Database features include downloadable open-format data and metadata, API enabled images incorporated from the image database oeai.DAM, links to relevant literature as well as to a controlled vocabulary, where project specific-terminology can be linked with established online authority databases. The data model also allows for the integration of project-specific features, such as the quarry-group feature (for the Fingerprinting White Marbles Project) or the planned expansion of visualization features for displaying important ceramic characteristics (for the ANAPAN project).
