archeos webgis

[luca]

Hi Alberto

On 14/02/11 13:39, albertocosner@libero.it wrote:
> hi everybody,
> sorry for the english, I want only to bring my suggests or impressions in that issue.
> me and other 7 researchers spent the last three years to make a database (gis connected) usefull for historical sources (mainly archeological, from archives, architectural, historical-artistic, bibliografic, oral and from material culture).

This would be a good starting point

>
>   Now the db is done, it was so difficult manage the differents sources, because the first step that you have to do is thinking about the way that your work have to talk with the cultural items's legislation. In Italy we have a really restricted procedure to record the cultural items, with two big problems: when you finish that procedure the item (that before was only a item) became a cultural item (a subject of the law), and the way that you record the items is different for every kind of sources (also the fields that are quite similar between each others is totally differents if you are recording photo or archaeological item).
>    

Yes, just my opinion, but looks like that most of the ICCD 
specifications are done for paper documentation, not yet optimized for 
digital.

> we resolved that problem thinking in a different way, the first step was to use the italian legislation only in the fields's definition, not in the codes of the fields (in that way the differences between the differents sources disappear, and I think if we look at the differents way of collecting data sheets "around the world" the problem is quite similar), and the second step is to look at the cultural items (or cultural sources) for the pourpose to identify it in the terms of geographics information, not to analize it in terms of different object-data (in that way you can escape the legislation, that is quite dangerous, and the differents between the sources desappears because all of them are only informations and not objects)
> I hope is usefull for the discussion about the "commons collecting data sheets "around the world", and again sorry for the english.
>    

Thank you for the suggestion. They are very useful. Is it possible to 
see your project somewhere on the net?