Bone inventory concept¶

Initial meeting: 2024-12-09
Participants: Alex, Bernhard, Nina

Current approach would be to

• Add a new OpenAtlas class bone (CIDOC class E20 - human remains)
• Add a system type Bone inventory with defined categories, which also contain some value types for counts of Bone fragments like, e.g. Rib 3-10 L/R
• Add a system type Bone preservation with options:
  • "empty" - meaning the bone isn't available
  • undefined
  • less than 25 % preserved
  • 25-75 % preserved
  • 75-99 % preserved
  • 100% preserved

To discuss¶

Structure
It would be advantageous, besides connecting entities to category types, to also connect them between with P46 (composed of)

• What to do with in between categories, e.g. with "Inventory Teeth -> permanent -> Maxilla -> I1"
  One approach would be to not create entities for these (see yellow ones at categories) and just connect to the next "existing one". For display the type hierarchy can still be used.
• At THANADOS they are currently all tracked as direct sub of the skeleton

To do¶

• Design views for entering and viewing
• Build prototype
• Test with transformed THANADOS dataset

Create new entries¶

• Data can be entered in a "guided" way starting with a button at the tool view of stratigraphic units
• Most likely we split the categories into (not too big) groups for easier data entry
• Default of Bone preservation will be empty. If left empty, no entities for these will created
• Where needed the Bone fragments will be provided and entering a positive integer is required
• If a sub category is chosen, the main category must be entered too

Adding information¶

Once created it will be possible to add information in the detail view:

• Additional types (which can be added via the type hierarchy interface), e.g. diseases, dimensions, ...
• A description can be added (like with all other entities)

Analysis¶

• A percentage sum (average of the main categories percentages) will be shown e.g. at the stratigraphic tool view.
  • Are different parts weighted differently?