Archeos-dev Digest, Vol 16, Issue 4

Sun Feb 13 22:59:06 CET 2011

Hi all,
I apologize in advance for my ignorance on this as I'm not an archaeologist;
in this moment I'll try only to put some questions about this project.
The first question is about the market "our" software will try to break:
aren't any specifical webgis for this that can be adapted for our purposes?
I think we could be in competition with other minor softwares present on the
scene...

The other question is about the possibility to extend the software to comply
with other countries/research team specification. Do you think will be
possible to set up a full-purpose database with features that can be
activated/deactivated on the fly to match the situation's requests?

Last but not least I propose, to start this project that could be hardly
bound to archeos, to use our github space to host the code/issues/wiki. As
usual the URL is https://github.com/archeos/ just let me know...

Fabrizio

sent from mobile

On Feb 13, 2011 7:56 PM, "Marcus Schneider" <chaputschneider@googlemail.com>
wrote:
> Hi Luca,
>
> oh, we all have just 24h to spent, and someone like me needs to waist a
> couple of hours for sleeping ....
>
> I know, willing to give a standart to a data collecting system like a
> database, and this on an international level is .. i hate to say it ..
quiet
> impossible.
> Looking here at Germany, you have 16 regional services, but a lot more
> trials to catalogize data. Many of the systems i worked with, started at
the
> level of a simple excavation database, and became the long the time a
> complex system willing to store data for the whole region. Most of these
> projects failed at the one or the other end.
>
> What I am looking for, is a database,
> - which is not closed source ( I don't deny the quality of Access, but not
> everyone will or can afford the costs)
> - where the data can be stored in an open format (readable by other
programs
> "xml ?")
> - and for the moment i only want to store excavation data as simple as:
> description of the structure, and the gestion of the dokumentation data
> (foto-nr etc.), as simple as that (o.k. i am just kidding, it's a little
bit
> more complicated).
>
> For myself I was trying to write a system web-based on php, mysql: but i
> have to say, i failed, i don't have the time, and not the capacity to do
> this.
>
> I think the idea in first collecting data sheets "around the world" and
> finding the commons, is a good start. Because at the end we all do the
same
> thing, we are just following different scolars.
> If you know someone who would be capable to do this work, it would be
great,
> and i am shure their will be a lot of people, very greatful .
> I can sent you a couple of description sheets of different regional
> services; will to have them translated before.
> Eventually if you are interested i can sent you the table structure of one
> or two db, as a kind of modell, if you wish.
> Perhaps this will take a while, evtl. I find a minute in between.
>
> Greetings
>
> Marcus
>
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>> Hi Marcus,
>> sorry for the late answer (we had to concentrate on the alpha release in
>> this days).
>>
>> One of the goal of ArcheOS is also to add a webgis system already done
>> to collect data. The problem in this is to build the structure of the
>> database, that has to reflect a catalogation system accepted
>> "internationally".
>> E.G. if we make something based on the ICCD (Istituto Centrale di
>> Documentazione e Catalogo), it would be acceptable in Italy, but
>> probably not in the other countries specification (this is an example of
>> webgis Giuseppe develped for the Soprintendenza Archeologica of Trento:
>> http://arc-team.homelinux.com/vervoWeb/).
>>
>> So i think (but this is just my opinion and would like to know what
>> others think about it), that would be possible to start a kind of
>> sub-project to structurate a database accepet "internationally" and then
>> build it and insert it in ArcheOS in the form of a webgis (maybe not yet
>> in the fourth release... depending on the work). In the meantime we can
>> collect all the recording sheet we use in Italy and, if someone send us
>> data from other countries, we can start to compare them and find common
>> fields to work on.
>>
>> What do you think about it?
>>
>> On 03/02/11 19:44, Marcus Schneider wrote:
>> > hello,
>> >
>> > in addition to my previous remarks, i found an interesting projekt here
>> > http://www.iadb.org.uk/
>> > perhaps it is worth having a look for it.
>> >
>> > greetings
>> >
>> > Marcus Schneider
>> >
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