Archeos-dev Digest, Vol 16, Issue 4

[luca]

On 13/02/11 22:59, Fabrizio Furnari wrote:
>
> 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...
>

Hi Fabrizio, i don't know any software that could do something like 
this. I mean a normal archaeological webgis is based on meny different 
software (e.g., with FLOSS, apache, mapserver, geoserver, PHP, 
postgresql, postgis, ecc...) and it is done by specialists that 
customize the system (often different systems, for different projects, 
according with specification of customers). The market we would break is 
more or less also our market (i mean we are already doing archaeological 
webgis for different customers, e.g Soprintendenza di Trento, 
Soprintendenza del Friuli, Università di Padova, Universitaet von 
Innsbruck, ecc...), but this would be not a problem (at least for us). 
We would be happy, if it would be possible to find a common system to 
share archaeological informations (this would help arcaheology, as 
"science", to develop faster and better, that is aslo in our interest). 
Anyway i don't think that a basic and standardized system could really 
break the market. It could be also a basic starting point for new 
projects, more permorming projects.

> 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?
>

I think it would be possible on a very basic level. I mean more or less 
every archaeology in the world (but maybe i am wrong, please tell me!) 
will have the necessity to record the number of the layer he/she is 
digging (in Italy "Unità Stratigrafica", more or less stratigraphical 
unity) and add other fields (e.g. geographic/geometric field - point, 
line, polygon; general description of the layer, finds, interpretation, 
when possible, datation, ecc...)

> 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...
>

This is also a good idea.

> Fabrizio
>