XRONOS v1.1.1: Performance, Stability, and API Improvements
We are pleased to announce the release of XRONOS v1.1.1, a maintenance update focused on improving performance, stability, and API responsiveness across the platform. Read more...
Open chronometric data for archaeology
XRONOS is an open data infrastructure for the backbone of the archaeological record – chronology. It provides open access to published radiocarbon dates and other chronometric data from any period, anywhere in the world.
We are pleased to announce the release of XRONOS v1.1.1, a maintenance update focused on improving performance, stability, and API responsiveness across the platform. Read more...
We are very pleased to announce the publication of the first original paper about XRONOS in the Journal of Computer Applications in Archaeology by Joe Roe et al. Read more...
We are very pleased to report that 2024 was the first year in which multiple researched articles were published based on chronological data from XRONOS. Read more...
We are pleased to announce the release of XRONOS v1.1.0, which brings significant enhancements to data integration and search functionality. Read more...
Attentive and/or impatient users might have noticed that XRONOS’ data browser got significantly faster recently. With nearly half a million dates and over 70,000 site records, our backend processes had been struggling not just to display it on the data browser’s map, but to serve large result sets through the JSON API. This meant that API requests for large sets of dates (e.g. the globe, or sometimes just a whole country) would often fail, with knock-on effects on server stability for all users. Happily, thanks to a number of recent behind-the-scenes performance improvements by Martin Hinz, we have overcome these problems. The data browser is snappier and API requests for e.g. all radiocarbon dates from Switzerland are now functional again – and fast! Read more...