i've seen irmela twice in the past 6 months - she's down at the rheinisches amt fuer bodendenkmalpflege in bonn (i could dig out full contact details if you want, but not to the list)
the program included with BASP is a little old (i.e. MS-DOS based; altho the rest of BASP is still OK) - she has also written a new one - more along the lines of the stratigraf program out of spain - mix of matrix & database -
everyone argues: if you're doing over 200 contexts, you need to use a program -
i just prefer to have the data in a machine & have it print out as/when i want -
there is also the arched program out of vienna (grad student project out of saarbruecken)
it's a lot more user-friendly than the old BASP & gives a lot more output possibilities (WMF for example)
you might want to try to get hold of the BAR "enter the past" tome on computers in archaeology from vienna 2003 - some updates in there

"Clevenger, Liz" <[log in to unmask]> schrieb:
> Hi All -
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> Does anyone have experience working with the Bonn Harris Matrix
> Compiler, a program written by Irmela Herzog (cited in her 1993 article
> "Computer-aided Harris Matrix generation," in Practices of
> Archaeological Stratigraphy)?  Current contact info for Herzog or how to
> get the program?  General thoughts on the various programs out there to
> create matrices, or the advantages/disadvantages of drawn matrices
> versus those created by graphing programs?