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Archeobases

Description

Archeobases is a set of  PostgreSQL databases and related  Python scripts used at the  Lazaret and at the  CERPT.

The main objective of this project is to allow our researchers to :

  • keep records of archaological excavations and post-excavations analysis (Archeo sub-project)
  • keep records of the numerous  Vallée des Merveilles engravded signs (Bego sub-project)
  • maintain an inventory of various archaelogical collections (Collection sub-project)
  • create various graphics from the database datas (genmap sub-project)

This project is very specific to our archeological usage and is full released under GPL2 licence. You are of course welcome to brownse or use our code. If you wish to know more, feel free to contact us.

Components

  • Annuaire : A Python web interface and a directory database.
  • Archeo : A Python web interface and an archaelogical excavation database.
  • Bego : A Python web interface and a specific database in use for our Mont-Bego works.
  • Collection : A Python web interface and collection + bibliographic database.
  • Genmap : A Python web tool to create PDF archaeological plans and projections.

History

The actual project is derivated from past works at the laboratory :

  • First works where made by Jérôme Dive on  Xenix. The main database structures are derivated from this work but unfortunatly sources have been lost.
  • Jean Fruité; Lamine Khaloufi and Toni Canals have ported the Xenix databases on Unify SQL (IBM AIX server). Toni Canals have also created an X/Motif software to visualise archeological datas for his dotorate thesis.
  •  Rachel Vaudron have ported the databases to PostgreSQL and created a set of Python scripts to interact with them from a web browser.
  •  Jerome Alet have writed the genmap sub-project to replace the old X/Motif software. The archeological project also use derivated code from his works (jahtml mainly).

Work in progress

We are actualy working actualy on the Archeobases 1.1 release witch is already in use at our laboratories. Our main remaining objective in this milestone is to finish the bug fixing for this release.

In near future we will work on the Archeobases 1.5 and Archeobases 2.0 releases:

  • 1.5 release will add most of the actual missing features requested by our users.
  • 2.0 release will be complete refactoring of the software : see details.

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