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Johannes Edvardsson

Johannes Edvardsson

Researcher

Johannes Edvardsson

Old Wood in a New Light: An Online Dendrochronological Database

Author

  • Johannes Edvardsson
  • Anton Hansson
  • Mattias Sjölander
  • Johan von Boer
  • Philip Buckland
  • Hans Linderson
  • Björn Gunnarsson
  • Hans W. Linderholm
  • Igor Drobyshev
  • Dan Hammarlund

Summary, in English

The Old Wood in a New Light database project focuses on the digitization and accessibility of the results of dendrochronological samples analyzed and archived at four Swedish university-based tree-ring laboratories at Lund University, Stockholm University, University of Gothenburg, and the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences. Collaboration with the Environmental Archaeology Laboratory and Humlab at Umeå University enables long-term open access to data, raw data, and metadata. In this project, we (1) systematically undertake large-scale entry and open access publication of results from wood samples scientifically analyzed and archived by Swedish laboratories and the associated metadata, into the Strategic Environmental Archaeology Database (SEAD; www.sead.se) research data infrastructure, and (2) actively promote the database as a resource for new and ongoing interdisciplinary research initiatives. Including dendrochronological data in SEAD infrastructure allows interdisciplinary studies that combine major scientific and societal questions. Building on a pilot study of construction timber from southern Sweden and adaptation of SEAD digitization workflows, more than 70 000 samples archived at the four dendrochronological laboratories are now being handled in the project. The broad coverage of research networks, stakeholder interaction, and strategic support from the cultural heritage community is guaranteed owing to the ongoing collaboration between laboratories and an established international and multidisciplinary reference group.

Department/s

  • BECC: Biodiversity and Ecosystem services in a Changing Climate
  • Quaternary Sciences
  • Department of Geology
  • MERGE: ModElling the Regional and Global Earth system

Publishing year

2022-12-02

Language

English

Pages

1-22

Publication/Series

International Journal of Wood Culture

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

Brill

Topic

  • Earth and Related Environmental Sciences
  • History and Archaeology

Keywords

  • archaeology
  • cultural heritage
  • dendrochronology
  • open data
  • Sweden
  • timber
  • tree-rings
  • Arkeologi
  • Kulturarv
  • Dendrokronologi
  • Öppen data
  • Sverige
  • Timmer
  • Trädringar

Status

Published

Project

  • Old Wood in a New Light

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 2772-3194