Start here

Pick the door that matches your work.

Extended Matrix is a method (the formal language), a framework (open-source tools) and a community. Each door leads to the first three things to do.

Sources, stratigraphy, reconstruction

For archaeologists, heritage scholars, students

  1. Read Learn EM: the method on paper, no software needed.
  2. Walk through the stratigraphic nodes and the paradata nodes.
  3. Draw your first graph: yEd with the EM palette, or EMStudio from 1.6.
Tools for archaeologists

3D models annotated with EM data

For 3D artists, modellers, technical archaeologists

  1. Install EM Tools in Blender, by drag and drop.
  2. Follow your first matrix, then the intermediate tutorials.
  3. Publish the scene to the web with Heriverse.
Tools for 3D modellers

Extend, integrate, contribute

For developers and tool builders

  1. pip install s3dgraphy and read the README.
  2. Read the open standards (CRMem, em.json, vocabularies) and the API reference.
  3. Open an issue, or join the Telegram group and the monthly dev meeting.
Tools for developers

Leading a project or a team?

EM projects combine eight professional figures: stratigrapher, source hunter, survey specialist, IT specialist, EM drawer, basic and advanced modeller, storyteller. Most teams cover them with two or three people wearing several hats. Naming the figures is what lets a project grow beyond a single researcher.

See the eight team roles

Not sure yet?

Tell us what you have (written sources, drawings, photos, a 3D survey, tables) and what you want to obtain: the guided path shows the tools and the steps.

Find your path

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