OSSOBOOK: database and knowledgemanagement techniques for archaeozoology

Abstract

This demo describes the OSSOBOOK database system developed for archaeozoology applications providing data storage, data retrieval, and data mining facilities. It shows a case study of integrating state-of-the-art database concepts like intermittently synchronized database system as well as concepts of information retrieval and knowledge representation like similarity search and data mining in order to provide a comprehensive system for an interesting application domain.