Definitions

The following terms are frequently used in the remainder of this manual.

Administration functions: a group of web pages that provide for the selection of viewing preferences, updating password and email addresses,transferring of update authority, viewing of status reports and attributes lists.

Annotation: overlaying text or cluster and panel hyperlinks on images.

Application: any of a group of related functions contributing to accomplishing a task; e.g. The DigitalRockArt application enables the recording, reporting and analysis of rock art. The DigitalRockArt computer program and database.

Attributes: words used to describe rock art elements and panels. Attributes are used to describe the condition of rock art panels and elements, and more importantly, the element design.

Attribute Set: a group of related attributes. An attribute set called gender would include attributes of male and female.

Backups: making copies of data that are saved for restoration in the event of an error or system failure resulting in data loss.

Bearing: the direction or degree reading from 1 to 360 degrees from the datum to the target panel being surveyed.

Browser: a computer program used to access the internet. Examples are Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari, Opera, and Konqueror.

Buttons: a means of selecting a description or an application directive. There are check boxes, radio buttons and system buttons.

Check boxes: a group of related two-way choices (true/false) displayed as square boxes with adjacent captions describing the meaning of the check box. The user may select none, some or all from a group. The choice may be removed by clicking on the button a second time.

Cluster: a group of physically related panels. In a boulder-strewn field, a boulder with one or more panels is usually a single cluster. On a cliff face, scree, or caves, adjacent or nearby panels may form clusters.

Cropped: to cut a selected area from a larger image thereby creating a smaller image.

Element: a petroglyph, pictograph, geoglyph, etc.

Facing: the direction the panel is "looking"; a direction or degree reading from 1 to 360 degrees.

Fat Pixel: replicating a pixel to fill a larger area for ease of view.

Function: one of the many routines within the DigitalRockArt application that allows the recording, reporting and analysis of rock art. A selection available on the Main Menu.

HTML: Hyper Text Markup Language is a standardized set of rules for describing how a web page is to be formatted by a browser when displayed on a monitor or printer.

Hyperlink: an reference on a web page that will link to another web page when clicked; hyperlinks are usually colored blue.

Image Category: a chosen classification of an image type, e.g. rock art, pottery, historic artifact, site overview, etc..

Image format: a standard for compressing, storing and retrieving a digital image; JPG or JPEG is a commonly used image format for digital photography. Other common image formats include PNG, GIF, and TIFF.

Inclination: a measurement of the deviation from horizontal ranging from 0 to 180 degrees.

Logon ID: identifies the user and determines the user's access permissions. Users are limited to recorder or researcher level logon IDs..

Media storage: a small card used in your camera that contains an embedded integrated circuit for storing digital images.

Panel: a group of elements in close proximity with approximately the same facing and inclination.

Perspective transformation: using computer software to fix the horizontal or vertical distortion in a digital image caused by shooting an object at an angle.

Pixel: an abbreviation of the term 'picture element.' A pixel is the smallest picture element of a digital image.

Queue: a sequence of objects awaiting processing. This could be a queue of images, a queue of panels or a queue of elements.

Radio buttons: a group of choices displayed as circular buttons with adjacent captions describing the meaning of the radio button. The user may select one and just one choice from a group. While radio button groups may not be deselected, within DRA the choice may be nullified by clicking on the "No answer" button at the top of the list.

Recorder logon ID: allows user to access the Administration, Recording and Reporting functions. The Recording functions will be limited to surveys assigned to the user.

Recording functions: those functions that add, change or delete data from surveys.

Researcher logon ID: allows a user to access the Administration and Research functions.

Reporting functions: those functions that perform searching, comparison, reporting and notebook generation.

Rock Art Class: the highest-level categorization of rock art e.g. anthropomorphic, zoomorphic, geometric, etc. are commonly used classes.

Site: the physical location where archaeological artifacts are located.

Survey: the collection of digital photos, drawings, and measurements for an Archaeological Site or a Site/Section. There may be more than one survey for a given site completed by different people at different times.

System: the forms, procedures, policies, documentation, etc. used in conjunction with an application.

System buttons: used by a function to initiate the application directive indicated by the button text, e.g. clicking on Menu will change the page to the Main Menu.

Tool-tip: is a small window that appears only when a mouse pointer is rolled over a hyperlink. The window will disappear when the mouse pointer is rolled off of the hyperlink. With in the DigitalRockArt application detailed element attributes are frequently shown by a tool-tip triggered from the rock art class name.

User ID: same as Logon ID.

Topography Chart: an application-generated image showing the relative locations of clusters to each other and datum points using a scaled grid. It does not show any of the natural terrain features or location coordinates typical of topographic maps.

Wiki: A wiki is computer software application that enables multiple people to edit a web page and add or correct the content of the page. Thus, the page can quickly reflect multiple points of view and assist in reaching a consensus. Wiki-Wiki is Hawaiian and means quick.