An IT Architecture for Web-Based Geotechnical Monitoring

Morris, Zachary S.; Farrington, Stephen

doi:10.1061/40803(187)144

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“…Indeed, the data demonstrate that many more small miniatures were used in daily life than were incorporated into ritual, emphasising the need for scholars to proceed with caution when interpreting miniature ceramic vessels in Bronze Age contexts; however, the unique affordances of micro-miniatures, small, abstracted icons, rendered them particularly suitable material forms through which the human mind could engage with the spiritual. When the mysteries of life and the unknowable aspects of the lived world eluded the inhabitants of Bronze Age Crete, it seems to have been the miniature to which they often turned for support, recognising that sometimes ‘the small conjures up infinity more easily than the large’ (Morris 2006, 11).…”

Section: Miniaturisation In the Semiotic Ideology Of Minoan Cretementioning

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Two Sizes Too Small: Two Categories of Miniature Pottery in Minoan Crete

Dewan

2023

Annu. Br. Sch. Athens

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Often assumed to be ritual votives or toys for children, miniature ceramic vessels in the Bronze Age Aegean have been afforded little thorough study. Their presence at peak sanctuaries, sacred caves and shrines on Crete has led to their uncritical association with ritual activity, even outside of sacred areas. When miniature pots are found in domestic spaces, they are often dismissed as objects of household ritual or simple toys. Yet miniature vessels, diverse in form and context, are so common in archaeological investigations of Minoan settlements that they merit further comprehensive study. Considered alongside the abundance of small-scale Minoan material culture, including figurines, seals, miniature wall paintings, and models, miniature pottery appears to be one facet of a larger semiotic ideology – one well-versed in the language and power of the miniature. By analysing 504 miniature pots from 13 sites in central and east Crete, this paper explores the wide range of miniature vessel types used in the Protopalatial and Neopalatial periods and applies contextual analysis to draw out their meanings. Contextualisation and data analysis reveal two distinct categories within the corpus of miniature pots: ‘micro-miniatures’ and ‘small miniatures’. While micro-miniatures were indeed inherently cultic, small miniatures served a variety of practical functions within the world of Minoan Crete and should not be assumed to relate to ritual. To differentiate between the categories, the relationship between the miniature and its prototype, as well as its semiotic meaning are considered. By applying Peircean understandings of iconicity and indexicality to these two categories, the use and significance of Bronze Age miniature vessels are further illuminated, in ritual and beyond.

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Section: Miniaturisation In the Semiotic Ideology Of Minoan Cretementioning

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Two Sizes Too Small: Two Categories of Miniature Pottery in Minoan Crete

Dewan

2023

Annu. Br. Sch. Athens

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“…Several Web-based clients for geotechnical information exchange are already available, such as the WebDACS system described by Morris and Farrington (2006). Systems such as WebDACS depend on external plug-ins such as Flash for user input and graphical data display.…”

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Internet-Enabled Geotechnical Data Exchange

Kosnik

2007

7th FMGM 2007

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Surveillance of large geotechnical projects requires autonomous collection of data from a wide range of instrument types. An equally large range of data formats are employed by these measurement systems. A data exchange protocol is needed to make field data available for interpretation on a variety of platforms. This paper presents the results of the development of a robust Internet-enabled framework for the exchange of engineering data. Internet-enabled data exchange technology provides a standard for engineering data acquired from any combination of instruments by autonomously parsing data into a searchable database for archiving and distribution. A set of strategies and software have been deployed to create layers of abstraction that allow data files from different commercial and in-house data acquisition packages to meet standards for timekeeping, archiving, and data display. The data are stored in an Internet-accessible database and distributed to stakeholders via a password-protected Web site. The data exchange abstractions in this system allow it to be employed with an extremely wide variety of sensing techniques and data types, and the storage of data in a relational database rather than flat files provides for improved scalability in the types and volumes of data to be interpreted. These technologies have been employed in the continuous remote monitoring of a number of facilities over the past seven years.

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An IT Architecture for Web-Based Geotechnical Monitoring

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Two Sizes Too Small: Two Categories of Miniature Pottery in Minoan Crete

Two Sizes Too Small: Two Categories of Miniature Pottery in Minoan Crete

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