This readme_BORIS_upload.txt file was generated on 2024-10-25 by Prof. Dr. Stefan Münger, University of Bern ------------------- GENERAL INFORMATION ------------------- 1. Title of dataset: Digital Corpus of Stamp Seals from the Southern Levant. 2. Contributor information: Name: Prof. Dr. Stefan Münger Role/Function: Co-PI Institution: Institute of Jewish Studies, University of Bern Address: Laenggassstrasse 51, CH-3011 Bern Email: stefan.muenger@unibe.ch 3. Date of data collection: Data was collected by O. Keel and his team (University of Fribourg) between 1980 and 2017, with an initial partial digitization conducted by https://bodo.unifr.ch. The data was further processed, normalized, and enhanced from 2020 to 2024 as part of the SNFS Sinergia Project "Stamp Seals from the Southern Levant: a multi-faceted prism for studying entangled histories in an interdisciplinary perspective." Final data compilation was completed on 2024-10-23 at 14:45:47. 4. Geographic location of data collection: Bern, Switzerland; Geo URI geo:46.948056,7.4475 5. Keywords describing the subject of your dataset: Glyptics, Stamp seals, Archaeology, Iconography, History of religions, Symbol systems, Southern Levant, Jordan, Israel, Palestine 6. Information about funding sources that supported the collection of the data: Funding agency name: Swiss National Science Foundation Grant number: 186426 ------------------- SHARING/ACCESS INFORMATION ------------------- 1. Licenses/restrictions placed on the data: Data license: CC BY-NC 4.0, allowing sharing and adaptation for non-commercial purposes with proper attribution. Media license: CC BY-NC-ND 4.0, allowing sharing of media files (images, videos, etc.) but prohibiting modifications and commercial use. Usage restrictions: The dataset and its media files are intended for non-commercial scientific and private use only. Commercial use is prohibited unless explicit permission is granted by the publisher. 2. Links to publications that cite or use the data: https://doi.org/10.1086/727580 3. Links to other publicly accessible locations of the data: https://bodo.unifr.ch 4. Links/relationships to additional data sets: 5. Was data derived from another source? yes. https://doi.org/10.5167/uzh-142340 https://doi.org/10.5167/uzh-137116 https://doi.org/10.5167/uzh-136930 https://doi.org/10.5167/uzh-136778 https://doi.org/10.5167/uzh-152239 6. Recommended citation for this dataset: Digital Corpus of Stamp Seals from the Southern Levant (cssl.levantineseals.org), edited by Ido Koch, Stefan Münger, Silvia Schroer and Christoph Uehlinger. Bern. --------------------- DATA & FILE OVERVIEW --------------------- 1. File List: The data sets consists of several split .zip-archive parts, which all must be download. They are: csslData_V_2024_10_23_14_45_47.zip.001 csslData_V_2024_10_23_14_45_47.zip.002 csslData_V_2024_10_23_14_45_47.zip.003 csslData_V_2024_10_23_14_45_47.zip.004 csslData_V_2024_10_23_14_45_47.zip.005 csslData_V_2024_10_23_14_45_47.zip.006 csslData_V_2024_10_23_14_45_47.zip.007 csslData_V_2024_10_23_14_45_47.zip.008 csslData_V_2024_10_23_14_45_47.zip.009 csslData_V_2024_10_23_14_45_47.zip.010 csslData_V_2024_10_23_14_45_47.zip.011 csslData_V_2024_10_23_14_45_47.zip.012 csslData_V_2024_10_23_14_45_47.zip.013 csslData_V_2024_10_23_14_45_47.zip.014 Please follow the "zip_archive_extraction_instructions.txt" file when unzipping the split .zip-archive parts. Once extracted, the data set consists of: Filename: README.md File format: Markdown File encoding: UTF-8 Short description: Explanatory text to access the accompanying JSON-file. Date of creation: 2024-10-19 Filename: csslData.json File format: JSON File encoding: UTF-8 Short description: Text data of Corpus Volumes 1-5, Corpus of Seals from Jordan Date of creation: 2024-10-19 Filename: files (folder) File format: JSON File encoding: UTF-8 Short description: Media data of Corpus Volumes 1-5, Corpus of Seals from Jordan Date of creation: 2024-10-19 2. Relationship between files: The csslData.json file contains all available CSSL data and refers to the individual image files stored in the files (folder). The README.md details the data structure of the csslData.json file. 3. Are there multiple versions of the dataset? no -------------------------- METHODOLOGICAL INFORMATION -------------------------- 1. Description of methods used for collection/generation of data: https://doi.org/10.1086/727580 2. Methods for processing the data: Iconographical methods, Archaeological methods; the data was processed using FileMaker 21.0.2.200 and earlier versions; additional software was used to process and scale the image files. 3. Instrument- or software-specific information needed to interpret the data: The data provided is strictly relational, yet for the convenience of the user each record's dataset is self-containing, i.e. contains all necessary information. This facilitates to import the data to non-relational db-formats. 4. Standards and calibration information: Not applicable. 5. Environmental/experimental conditions: Not applicable. 6. Describe any quality-assurance procedures performed on the data: Each entry has been peer-reviewed twice. 7. People involved with sample collection, processing, analysis and/or submission: See https://levantineseals.org/index.php/team/ ----------------------------------------- DATA-SPECIFIC INFORMATION FOR: [FILENAME] ----------------------------------------- 1. Number of variables: See readMe.md 2. Number of cases/rows: See readMe.md 3. Variable List:, Not applicable. 4. Missing data codes: Not applicable. 5. Specialized formats of other abbreviations used: See readMe.md