Date: Dec. 7, 2001
Link: http://www.oi.uchicago.edu/OI/PROJ/XSTAR/XSTAR.html
Source Author or Organization: David Schloen, Oriental Institute, University of Chicago

The XML System for Textual and Archaeological Research (XSTAR) Project was formed to develop a Java-based XSTAR XML database structure incorporating David Schloen's Archaeological Markup Language (ArchaeoML) as the data format.

ArchaeoML is described in the paper "Archaeological Data Models and Web Publication Using XML" by author David Schloen in Computers and the Humanities, vol. 35, May 2001 (abstract). The elements and attributes of XSTAR's markup language and its relationship to ArchaeoML are described by David Schloen in XSTAR, XML System for Textual and Archaeological Research (PDF, 220k).

The XSTAR XML database will offer artifact information in a platform-neutral, searchable resource that provides a citable research aid for historians, historical geographers, philologists and archaeologists. Represented information includes archaeological descriptions, geological descriptions, text and script descriptions, language descriptions, secondary literature and bibliographic references. This site includes a link to the XSTAR white paper (PDF, 220k).