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Managing archaeological excavations with an Archaeological Information System (SIDGEIPA)

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I discuss different aspects of the process we have followed to develop and implement a completely new software to manage archaeological excavations. The software named SIDGEIPA (Distributed System for Integrated Management of Archaeological excavations) includes different modules allowing users to store archaeological data from different sources (excavation, survey, scientific literature, museum collections...) and to process them automatically in order to simplify archaeological research. Technically Sidgeipa is built in Java code, using Postgres as DBMS and with VTK and GEF libraries to visualize the data. The client -server architectures is sustained by Linux and MacOS X platorms