Archaeological DB and webgis

[gerhard.oettl@ogersoft.at]

Hi


A little late: We are very interested in such a DB.

And a footnote:

We planed a "little sister" of such a DB some time ago and started coding this 
month. There are strong limitations (by design - see later) but we want to get 
rid of the current solution which is insufficient (and of the ms-access 
dependency too).
To name the limitations ;-)
- It is heavily bound to the needs of the austrian bundesdenkmalamt (may be it 
is called "State Office for Historical Monuments" in english?)
- Harrison matrix and geodata are deferred (not derminated for how long)
- Development will be slow (free-time project)
- We have to consider dependencies to existing data structure.

Nevertheless is started and a demo exists at <http://demos.ogersoft.at>.


Independend of (trying to) devolop a own solution "for now" we support the idea 
of an international (or multinational) standard DB and are willing to contribute.


have a nice day
gerhard


Am 2011-03-12 12:12, schrieb luca:
> Hi All,
> looks like the discussion about an archaeological DB in ArcheOS is getting
> further. There are some messages also in our group on LinkedIN. Summarizing, the
> main problem still remain the structure of the DB, while almost everybody thinks
> that the best software solution is an SQL language with PHP GUI. It semms that
> most of the users had experiences with ICCD (Istituto Centrale per il Catalogo e
> la Documentazione) specifications. Here are some of these indications
> (unfortunatley just in Italian):
> http://www.iccd.beniculturali.it/index.php?en/251/archaeological-heritage
> Now i am also thinking that this could be a good starting point and maybe it is
> possible to try to make these recording sheets more international (with some
> necessary updates), so that they will be a little bit more sharable. I know that
> Marcus is right when he says taht this is a "kingsize" project, anyway let's say
> that is just an experiment. We can start with the most common recording sheets,
> like the stratigraphic Unit (that we compile every day), or the archaeological
> Site (a little bit less common for me). Personally i will start to try the
> Stratigraphic Unit of Covering, that i discover just today (i know i am ignorant
> :)) and that solve a problem i have in the project i am working on in these days
> (i used a normal Stratigraphic Unit instead, but these new - for me -
> Stratigraphic Unit of Covering fits better). I will try to compile these sheet
> and, if it is working good, i will translate the fields (and maybe the
> documentation, if the author will agree).
> Hope to post soon some feedback
>
> PS
> I know that Denis was working on a geoarcheological recording sheet, this could
> be a chanche to test it (i think that ICCD still did not prepare such a sheet.
> By the way looks like that the one for Anthropological finds is ready).
>
> Ciao.
>
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