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Editorial to the Supplement 1, 2007.

Current official definitions of “museum” in different countries are examined, together with their implications: the role of museums, their characteristics, the activities museums are expected to conduct. The presence of virtual museums on the Internet is …

The author describes the origin of “Iraq Project: the Virtual Museum of Baghdad”, and discusses two projects which have been approved by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MAE). As part of the humanitarian mission of stabilization and reconstruction in Iraq…

A virtual museum is a real challenge, especially when the goal is to contextualize its content and overcome physical, cognitive and cultural hurdles. A good user interface should provide everyone with an equivalent experience, irrespective of their disabi…

Preface to the Supplement 2, 2009.

Introduction to the Supplement 2, 2009.

Open content in archaeology requires careful consideration in our field of studies: knowledge conservation is linked to its spread, and for this purpose the web is one of the most useful and important tools. In this paper two open projects are suggested: …

The FIRB project, “Integrated Technologies of robotics and virtual environment in archaeology”, gives us the opportunity to experiment and create a multi-user domain on the web aimed at a multidisciplinary scientific community. The state of the art in thi…

3D scanning technologies offer a lot of interesting possibilities for uses related to Cultural Heritage. Unfortunately, most of the current 3D scanning solutions are very costly and require a significant investment, both in terms of software and hardware.…

After years spent in developing FLOSS we have reached a high quality level in computational archaeology, and therefore, in 2008 we focused our research on OS hardware projects to develop our data acquisition methodology. In this article we present our exp…

The so-called Web 2.0 offers good methods for sharing knowledge, but it does not provide adequate tools for performing automated, complex searches on the Internet with the quality needed for scientific research. blueOcean is a software product for managin…

In this paper we describe the design, implementation and validation of a multimedia open source database for archiving information about diagnostics, conservation and restoration of archaeological documents and artifacts. The software architecture is base…

Navigation in virtual environments and web-based Virtual Reality applications plays an important role in user interaction, quality and level of content comprehension. ViRo system has been developed as part of the Virtual Rome Project, with focus on usabil…

Final remarks to the Supplement 2, 2009.

The large amount of documentation made available by ‘preventive’ archaeology led to the setting up of several collective research programs. Aimed at rural settlements during the Middle Ages on a regional level, both ‘région Île-de-France’ and ‘région Cent…

Archaeologists are interested in the construction of information systems and in their treatment and increasingly, in the electronic communication of tools. The examples of collective projects which have web sites exist (databases, GIS, computer generated …

Up to now Geographic Information Systems have rarely been used to study decorated caves. The research conducted for more than 12 years now in the Chauvet cave required a unifying tool that would collect, on the same support, all of the different types of …

A procedure was developed to reconstruct the sedimentary units and to establish the position of the archaeological features and was then implemented via a database coupled with a GIS. This reconstruction requires the increase of measurements taken on the …

The design and progressive implementation of an Archaeological Information System (AIS) at Inrap aims to meet the needs for improving archaeological reasoning as well as regulatory requirements. The term of AIS means here a coherent and organized set of r…

When the Reims team presented the first results of its SIGRem project in 2006 our major concern was presenting the available data collection and supporting documents regarding the archeological excavations conducted in the last 20 years in the City of Rei…

This study deals with the impact of the Geographical Information Systems (GIS) on the French institutions for archaeological research. The practices of GIS follow a global evolution. With the dematerialization of the data and the systems, we are actually …

The introduction of the concept of the Archaeological Information System (AIS) made it possible to propose the existence of an integrated generic applicative architecture, computerizing the functions of archaeological practice (Djindjian 1993). It also al…

The use of virtual imaging in the framework of preventive archaeology helps us understand, describe and interpret the vestiges that one finds on the terrain. 3D reproduction has often been considered as a tool for data dissemination that is intended for t…

An archaeological excavation is an unrepeatable practice. The only action that can be reproduced and re-analysed is the continuous use of raw data. Data sharing, therefore, is the only way to understand and re-examine the archaeological interpretative pro…