[ArcheOS] Archaeological DB and webgis

[Romain Janvier]

Hello,
I'm a french PhD student (numismatic). I spend some of my free time in coding a numismatic database in django (python) + js + html. Django is a great framework with build in gis support, and some of yours are already coding in py...

I have the same problem trying generating complex diagrams (coin's matrix links). For now i'm generating them server side... But I think html 5 with Canvas support will help to create some greats client side graph tools.

Regards,
Romain



Le 13 mars 2011 à 10:56, "luca" <luca.bezzi@arc-team.com> a écrit :

> Hi Ricardo,
> you are absolutely right. My problem about this topic is that normally i draw myself the matrix with Inkscape (generally at the end of the entire workflow in the archaeological excavation). I do this way because i tired some specific FLOSS to draw diagrams, but they were too rigid: drawing the matrix i often reached a complexity that was too much for such software; another problem was that i was continuously correcting the matrix till the final version, than i was simplifying everything (and these operations were simpler, for me, inside a vector graphic software). However is long that i don't try anymore a diagram software and maybe now there will be one specific for archaeology.
> 
> Regarding the links you report, i just gave a fast look:
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> Stratify looks like an interesting software. Actually the only problem is that it is for Windows. I cannot try it, because up to now i dont have a Windows version on my laptop (not even in virtual machine...). If someone can try it and report her/his impression, if the feedback is positive, we could contact the author and see if it would be possible to write a Linux version for ArcheOS.
> 
> Graphviz looks like one of the software for diagram i tested and that gave me the problem i reported before. Anyway, since is long i did not try anymore to draw a matrix with such a program, i can do some more test (it could always be a starting point to further develop a more specific archaeological software).
> 
> STRAT tool looks like a very interesting software, thanks for the link!. I entered this website: http://dea.brunel.ac.uk/project/murale/strat.htm It seems that the application is for windows, but i really would like to test it. Maybe we can contact the authors and ask for datail of the license and if it is possible to write a version for Linux. Anyway we can also see if it is working in Wine by now. What do you think?
> 
> Ciao.
> 
> On 13/03/11 00:07, Ricardo Gaidão wrote:
>> Ciao!
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>> I think an archaeological DB / webgis can't forget the chronological factor, and must include a good Harris Matrix generator.
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>> Does any one know "open" AND "free" software that can generate a matrix from the database stratigraphic units relations?
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>> I only find out the following information:
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>> Irmela Herzog. "No News from Stratigraphic Computing?"
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>> http://www.stratify.org/Whatis/Stratify_3.pdf
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>> Harris Matrix with Graphviz
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>> http://www.iosa.it/content/harris-matrix-graphviz
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>> Some EPOCH projects have similar goals
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>> http://www.epoch-net.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=216&Itemid=332
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>> http://public-repository.epoch-net.org/deliverables/D2.4.3-Showcases.pdf
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