@article{oai:minpaku.repo.nii.ac.jp:00004533,
 author = {及川, 昭文 and Oikawa, Akifumi and 宮本, 定明 and Miyamoto, Sadaaki and 小山, 修三 and Koyama, Shuzo},
 issue = {2},
 journal = {国立民族学博物館研究報告, Bulletin of the National Museum of Ethnology},
 month = {Oct},
 note = {Archaeology in Japan has made rapid progress in the last twenty
years, and every year thousands of archaeological sites are reported
as being excavated, mainly as a consequence of large and widespread
land development projects.
So far, such archaeological information has been managed
efficiently by the government, but the overwhelming volume of
new data represents an information deluge similar to that which
has already occurred in the natural sciences. It has led to an
unmanageable situation for administrators and scholars alike.
Today, this mass of new information can be compiled as a
computerized, machine-readable database. As a pilot project,
our team began to develop a database on the Jomon shellmounds,
under a Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research from the Ministry of
Education, Science and Culture (1977).
One reason for taking-up this subject was that there existed
already a large volume of information suitable for rapid transformation
into machine-readable format. Usually this is the most expensive
and time-consuming process in assembling a database. In this
database all the known Jomon shellmounds by 1960 (807 shellmounds)
have been recorded systematically with information on
location, pottery type (i.e. time reference), natural and artificial
remains, and so forth.
This paper, a preliminary report on the first two years of the
project, describes:
1) The process of building-up a database, including the
selection of categories;
2) The use of a database as an information retrieval system;
and
3) Some statistical analyses using data extracted from the
database.
The database will be enlarged to accomodate all the archaeological
sites in Japan of value to the administration and for use in
future research.},
 pages = {439--470},
 title = {貝塚データベース : その作成と応用},
 volume = {5},
 year = {1980},
 yomi = {オイカワ, アキフミ and ミヤモト, サダアキ and コヤマ, シュウゾウ}
}