Francesco de Virgilio

This paper shows that the software included in the open source Tellus Project is a valid tool to create a network of real-time communication among field and office, enabling archaeologists to share geographic informations using a full featured portable GIS. Tellus could be executed also on cheap open-hardware mobile devices, and in general provides a series of useful features (possibility to work in disconnected mode, synchronization engine, works with any type of database, ...). Tellus… Show more

This paper shows that the software included in the open source Tellus Project is a valid tool to create a network of real-time communication among field and office, enabling archaeologists to share geographic informations using a full featured portable GIS. Tellus could be executed also on cheap open-hardware mobile devices, and in general provides a series of useful features (possibility to work in disconnected mode, synchronization engine, works with any type of database, ...). Tellus software suite in combination with open source server-side software like PostGIS and MapServer offers the possibility to generate near-real-time WMS, accessible through the Internet from all the world both for view and database query. The community-driven Total Open Station free software on GNU/Linux powered devices offers the possibility to transfer data directly from total station to office, avoiding computers and proprietary software. Show less

This paper shows how a set of open source tools, raging from CSS templates to JavaScript libraries, from PHP interfaces to PostGIS and MySQL databases, can be used to create a complete environment suitable for both touristic and enhanced view and management of archaeological data. During this experience various frontend tools have been analyzed and compared, and some of them have been chosen to create a touristic purposed archaeological website, www.sipontoaperta.it, and the corresponding data… Show more

This paper shows how a set of open source tools, raging from CSS templates to JavaScript libraries, from PHP interfaces to PostGIS and MySQL databases, can be used to create a complete environment suitable for both touristic and enhanced view and management of archaeological data. During this experience various frontend tools have been analyzed and compared, and some of them have been chosen to create a touristic purposed archaeological website, www.sipontoaperta.it, and the corresponding data management interface with on-request access; in this setup the “stratigraphic unit” approach to data management has been mixed with "single context record"-based tools and spatial-enabled database plus Python scripts to obtain a full featured (albeit user friendly) webGIS. The work also presents for the first time in literature a successful stratigraphic unit data import into the ARK platform, and an OpenLayer (JavaScript) plus Pannellum (HTML5) software setup to create the first 360 degree immersive photographic webtour documented on an archaeological site completely realized with free software. To increase the attractiveness and the competitiveness of the website, 3D laser-scanned reconstructions have been created, exported using well documented formats and embedded
in the webGIS using open source JavaScript libraries. Show less