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In
recent years, GIS-based databanks have gained more and more
importance in archaeology. Namely the monumental heritage
departments are interested in the greater efficiency offered
by GIS-applications for their daily work with the archaeological
heritage. Since the 90ies of the 20th century, various of
the bigger German departments for archaeological heritage
management have installed different systems of GIS-oriented
databanks for the archaeological sites in their area of responsibility.
Problematic are the price for the adaptation to the specific
demands, the final installation of the systems and their further
maintenance, mostly done by computer firms. This overall financial
burden is often beyond the means of smaller monumental heritage
departments.
Out of the need to render our service more effective, to give
specific security of planning in a reasonable timespan but
not having the financial background to adopt one of the already
existing GIS-systems, our heritage management department in
Speyer (Pfalz) took advantage of one of our freelances having
specific computer skills and of a newcome employee who had
worked with an archaeological GIS before. This team developped
a MS Access/MS SQL-based databank under the following main
devices:
- uncomplicated linking inbetween the different parts of the
databank
- various routes of enquieries, easy to handle
- vast possibilities for expansion of the system
- low budget development- and maintenance costs
This GIS-connected databank, momentarily called "PGIS"
("P" for "Pfalz") will be presented in
the session.
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