ArboDat+ is funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) under the National Research Data Infrastructure Germany (NFDI) program. ArboDat+ is a continued development of the ArboDat program and is being carried out as a collaborative project between NFDI for Objects (NFDI4O) under Task Area 3 “Analytics & Experiments”, the Lower Saxony Institute for Historical Coastal Research (NIhK) and the Institute of Pre- and Protohistoric Archaeology (UFG) as well as the Department of Computer Science (IfI) at Kiel University.
Our Intention
We are working on a novel implementation of the archaeobotanical database program ArboDat, with the aim of promoting its establishment in the national and international community. To this goal, the software will be re-implemented as a more accessible database system. It is also being developed into a more simplified, flexible and multilingual version. However, the functionality and structure of the original program should be widely kept to enable the easy data transfer into ArboDat+. Additional features and suggestions will be considered as far as possible. You can find the latest news and progress in the blog section of this website. Your contribution is very important for this project, therefore, please contribute to the development of ArboDat+ by posting comments, e.g. in our forums section. We welcome your feedback and help!
This Website
(1) provides a forum to collect all kinds of information and suggestions for the further development of the software, (2) wants to inform in the blog section about the revision of the archaeobotanical database program ArboDat with emphasis on the progress of the implementation of ArboDat+ and (3) will provide download links for the final software.
History of ArboDat
ArboDat is a software package for registering and importing data from archaeobotanical analyses, including contexts of samples, as well as evaluation tools, e.g. for preparing tables for publications. It has been developed since 1997 as a product of the Landesamt für Denkmalpflege Hessen, Wiesbaden/Germany (HessenARCHÄOLOGIE) under the direction of Prof. Angela Kreuz.
By June 2016, all rights including the copyright were transferred to the NIhK, Wilhelmshaven, Germany, which is now the copyright holder for ArboDat and has the right to distribute licences to archaeobotanical scientists or institutions after acceptance of the software license agreement. The current, updated version is ArboDat 2018, available in German, (partly) English and French and is provided free of charge. The licensor (NIhK) is not liable in any way for the use of the computer program or for any infringement of the rights of third parties by this computer program, nor is it liable for any damages incurred on a third party by the use of the computer program. Any form of liability by the Licensor in connection with this computer program is disclaimed and declined.
