Kiosk lets you record relationships between contexts in ways that really will help you down the road.
With customizable settings, you can use Kiosk to:
- automatically assign a chronological relationship for a spatial one: if you record that context A is cut by context B then it will also be recorded that A is earlier than B
- automatically create the inverse of relationships: if you create a relationship in context 423 that says “abuts 498” then in context 498 there will be automatically generated a relationship “is abutted by 423”
- illustrate relations: sketch them directly in the image container, take a photo, or insert an image used elsewhere in the recording by using the gallery function
- create relations between contexts that are from different units. This is particularly helpful if you use a numbering strategy that is hierarchical, so that contexts are numbered per unit. If you know that context B4-004 is the same stratum as context C6-012, you can give them the relationship “equivalent to”.
What’s so great about all this? Not only does it let you capture some of the most fundamental archaeological data in ways that minimize the potential for errors, it is also the basis of your Harris matrix right there, ready to go. Once you synchronize your data, the push of a button in Kiosk translates these relations into a matrix.