Folia archeologica 44.

Kovács S. Tibor: Török hatás a magyar fegyvereken a 15-17. században

248 REZI-KATÓ GÁBOR set and data entry was started by the help of this small 'terminological dictionary'. Objects which could not be fit into the system were remarked as 'others'. From time to time, at various intervals, these 'others' can be listed and new categories can be formulated, by the help of which the databese should be updated. Now, after the end of the data entry, the Roman thesaurus contains 237 object types.

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0 We could not adopt the same method for the elaboration of the Prehistoric Collection comprising several hundred thousand objects. In this case, a preliminary terminology was of no help, thus the names listed on the inventory cards were fed in 'one to one' to the system. After completing the data entry, the data will be updated by a processing program and a terminological dictionary and the correct terminology will be formed afterwards. List of occurrences Te r minological name Base fragment of cup Cup Cup (?) fragment Cup Cup (broken) Cup Fragment of cup base Cup Cup base fragment Cup Cup with one handle Cup Cup wall fragment Cup Fragment of cup with handle Cup Handle fragment of a cup Cup Cup neck fragment Cup Cup lateral fragment Clip Cup fragment with rim Cup Cup rim frag. Cup Cup rim fragment Cup etc. To give numerical data for the above list: In the Prehistoric Collection, after the data entry of 63 000 (objects) records, in the field 'NAME' there were 7400 different entries including name variants and misprints. The entry 'cup' or its variants occurred in 1177 case in 113 name variants. In all these we did not take into consideration terminological differences when cups are described as glass, pot, vessel etc. It is obvious that the feasible way differs from collection to collection according to the character, size and degree of elaboration. We hope that the terminological dictionary constructed in the Hungarian National Museum will help in handling these problems in the frames of ASIS as well, facilitating research strategies, increasing the accuracy of analyses and their consistency." After the database organisation of ASÍS we can start to discuss special features of a CIS system which cannot be performed in a traditional research environment. After the general spreading of powerful and user-friendly database niaiiageineni programs, research workers have quickly adopted means for ordering large amount of data in new dimensions, make queries by simple or complex criteria. Programs supplied with more sophisticated means of analysis, mathematical- statistical functions induce the analyses of new relations. All these possibilities should offered by an archaeological CIS as well. By the combination of traditional data and spatial information, not only the amount of data are avaiblable for analysis, but there is a 1

0 This number is not the last word, but will not change essentially. 1

1 Attila SUHAJDA, THEO -Terminológiai osztályozó rendszer és alkalmazása az MNM grafikus nyilvántartó rendszerében / Application of terminological classification system in the graphical inventory system of the Hungarian National Museum.