X-Ray Fluorescence Data Analysis Tool v1.3 (XRF-DAT1.3)

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).
• Process multiple measurements per source per folio based on user selection.
• Calculate the average, max and min values of multiple measurements from the same folio and source.
• Specify energy ranges to be included and excluded from the spectrum.

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.