Luciano GILIBERTO1 | Andrea BORRUSO2
(1Universität Tübingen, Germany | 2PANOPTES srl, Palermo, Italy)
Abstract:
One of the crucial aspects influencing the design of projects in the field of cultural heritage, affecting their quality, and sometimes causing their termination, is the lack of funding.
The continuous development of high quality free and open source software by the global community seeks to countervail some of these drawbacks and has come up with solutions to certain aspects of the problem.
However, one of the obstacles is the design and development of these software tools. Not all archaeologists are programmers and not everyone should necessarily become one.
This paper aims to introduce simple ways how to “build at home” and at low cost technical tools for archaeological projects through the “recycling” of appliances that have already become part of our daily lives.
The methodology, which has already been tested in several case studies, is focused on the use of open source software (GDAL/OGR library, QGIS, Geopaparazzi, STAGE and Spatialite) and widely available devices such as smartphones and tablet PCs to support an archaeological survey campaign.
As illustrative examples, several cases studies of projects conducted by the University of Tuebingen in the Middle East and by the University of Palermo in Italy will be presented.
Keywords: Free Open Source Software, Archaeology, Survey, Android