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First proposals for a web-based information system in archaeology: storage and interactivity for the preservation and the handling of Cultural Heritage data

In the context of archaeology, information technologies begin to have an important role. This is particularly true for the management of the numerous data gathered about an archaeological site, and for information exchanges. The purpose of this paper is to present the first implementation of a webbased information system for the conservation, handling, and use of archaeological site data. The case study is the castle of Vianden in Luxembourg, on which considerable archaeological data have accumulated over the last several years. There is a recognized need in archaeology for a tool that will allow for fast, effective, and flexible exploratory analysis of the data, especially at spatial and temporal levels. We have developed such an information system on the web, with maximal portability by using Extensible Markup Language (XML). Taking into account the complexity and heterogeneity of archaeological data, our system consists of several interfaces permitting different types of access to the varied information. We propose a description of the data in textual interfaces along with images, and dynamic links to these data through interactive 2D and 3D representations. The 2D images, photos, or vectors are generated in Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG), while 3D models are generated in Extensible 3D (X3D).

A web information system for the management and the dissemination of Cultural Heritage data

Journal of Cultural Heritage, 2007

Safeguarding and exploiting Cultural Heritage induce the production of numerous and heterogeneous data. The management of these data is an essential task for the use and the diffusion of the information gathered on the field. Previously, the data handling was a hand made task done thanks to efficient and experienced methods. Until the growth of computer science, other methods have been carried out for the digital preservation and treatment of Cultural Heritage information. The development of computerized data management systems to store and make use of archaeological datasets is then a significant task nowadays. Especially for sites that have been excavated and worked without computerized means, it is now necessary to put all the data produced on computer. It allows to preserve the information digitally (in addition with the paper documents) and offers new exploitation possibilities, like the immediate connection of different kinds of data for analyses, or the digital documentation of the site for its improvement. Geographical Information Systems have proved their potentialities in this scope, but they are not always adapted to the management of features at the scale of a particular archaeological site. Therefore this paper aims to present the development of a Virtual Research Environment dedicated to the exploitation of intra-site Cultural Heritage data. The Information System produced is based on open source software modules dedicated to the Internet, to avoid users to be software driven and to permit them to register and consult data from different computers. The system gives the opportunity to do exploratory analyses of the data, especially at spatial and temporal levels. The system is compliant to every kind of Cultural Heritage site and allows managing diverse types of data. Some experimentation has been done on sites managed by the Service of the National Sites and Monuments of Luxembourg.

An integrated information System for Archaeological Data management: latest Developments

At other CAA meetings we have already introduced the main experiences of our laboratory. It is our intention, here, to discuss the latest developments of our archaeological management system, called OpenArcheo. We work on different scales (from regional surveys down to detailed records of all the finds). In particular all the data is administered within a data model made up of five components: different GIS platforms, an alphanumerical database, a media database, a spreadsheet with Harris's matrixes, multimedia presentations; these are linked by a system level application. OpenArcheo is constantly updated in order to fulfill new functions and manage new in-depth data; basic concept of our system are the multidirectional links between information types, which allow the user to retrieve and process all the information related to a specific archaeological feature.

Design and implementation of a Web application for Cultural Heritage

HighTech and Innovation Journal

Within the field of Digital Humanities, a great effort has been made to digitize documents and collections in order to build catalogs and exhibitions on the Web. In this paper, we present WeME, a Web application for building a knowledge base, which can be used to describe digital documents. WeME can be used by different categories of users: archivists/librarians and scholars. WeME extracts information from some well-known Linked Data nodes, i.e. DBpedia and GeoNames, as well as traditional Web sources, i.e. VIAF. As a use case of WeME, we describe the knowledge base related to the Christopher Clavius’s corre spondence. Clavius was a mathematician and an astronomer of the XVI Century. He wrote more than 300 letters, most of which are owned by the Historical Archives of the Pontifical Gregorian University (APUG) in Rome. The built knowledge base contains 139 links to DBpedia, 83 links to GeoNames and 129 links to VIAF. In order to test the usability of WeME, we invited 26 users to tes...

2003-An integrated information system for archaeological data management: latest developments

In past CAA meetings we have already introduced the main experiences of our laboratory. It is our intention at present, to discuss the latest developments of our archaeological management system, called OpenArcheo. We work on different scales (from regional surveys down to detailed records of all the finds). In particular all the data is administered within a data model made up of five components: different GIS platforms, an alphanumerical database, a media database, a spreadsheet with Harris's matrixes, multimedia presentations; these are linked by a system level application. OpenArcheo is constantly updated in order to fulfil new functions and manage new in-depth data; basic concept of our system are the multidirectional links between information types, which allow the user to retrieve and process all the information related to a specific archaeological feature. Key words: Approach to Computer Applications, Intrasite GIS, Integrated information system, Data Architecture

Towards an Archaeological Information System: the evolution of Syslat, an archaeological data management software

Big data and archaeology, Archaeopress 2021, p.62–70., 2021

Our laboratory is strongly involved in the development and the continuation of the Syslat software, created by Michel Py (CNRS) and the research team of Lattes in the 1980s. Designed as a software tool for managing and exploiting data from archaeological excavations, Syslat is evolving into an Archaeological Information System (AIS), suitable for any type of sites, vestiges or periods. The many versions of this program since its inception allowed to take up one of the main challenges raised by the growth of archaeology since the 1980s, that is of the management and normalisation of the recording of archaeological data, which are becoming exponential, in all their diversity and complexity. The evolution of Syslat into an AIS will allow the integration of the latest development in data recording and exploitation procedures while pursuing the effort on the normalisation front and the production of references based on the dictionaries and libraries attached to the software.