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Critique of Archaeological Reason

III. Utilities / Data handling

Input

Giorgio Buccellati – October 2016

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File structure

Each input file is a plain ASCII file, that can be produced with any word editor, without any formatting.

The label includes four elements, the first three separated by a hyphen, thus for example: CAR-ZB415-rL.d.

  1. The identifier for this particular project (the program is used for other projects as well), which in this case is CAR
  2. The date, according to an internal convention (ZB is the code for 2017, followed by a single character for the month and a double digit for the day) – in our example, ZB415 for April 15, 2017. For all the year codes, see on urkesh.org
  3. The initials of the author, according to a convention determined by the editors – in our example rL for Laerke Recht.
  4. The extension "d" (for database), preceded by a period.

Hyperlinks are enclosed by < >, e.g. , <Themes/stratigraphy.htm>stratigraphy</a>* which yields <a href=”Themes/stratigraphy.htm”>stratigraphy</a>

Entries relating to the bibliography or the notes can be entered together in the same input file.

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Roster

The Roster identifies the variables that are used as codes to define each entry in a given input file. At this point, the program processes only bibiiographical entries and notes.

Entries highlighted in yellow are headers: everything that follows, until the next header, refers to it.

Each record is introduced by a code followed by a space, as shown in the list below. If a record contains more than one paragraph, then each successive paragraph is introduced by a tab.

code definition example
; notes disregarded by program
ID identifier for bibliographical entries Adams&Adams1987Purpose
AU author
Y year
T title
P publication details
NR reference to note 13.5.3
S summary
SA summary author
SD summary date
NOTES identifier for notes 13.5.3
NT text of note
NA note author
ND note date

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Text formatting

  • //word// for italics: word
  • ^^word^^ for bold: word
  • ##word## for bold italic: word
  • an actual tab for five non-breaking spaces
  • *!word!* for a word that is to be included in the indices
  • **!word!** for a word that is to be included in the indices, but is not to be given in the text

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