X-Ray Fluorescence Data Analysis Tool v1.0 (XRF-Dat1)

The main goal of this software tool is to analyse tabular data generated by X-Ray Fluorescence spectrometers within the scope of analysing writing, painting, and supports materials of written artefacts. The main tasks achieved by this software tool are:

• Process the generated tabular data according to user-defined settings for manual inspection
• Generate a table to be used for scatter plots
• Calculate distances between different measurements using Euclidean distance measure (L2)
• It can deal only with single measurement per source per folio. Next version will consider multiple measurements per source.

The research for this software was funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) under Germany´s Excellence Strategy – EXC 2176 ‘Understanding Written Artefacts: Material, Interaction and Transmission in Manuscript Cultures’, project no. 390893796. The research was conducted within the scope of the Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures (CSMC) at Universität Hamburg.