Technical Applications
Up one levelArchaeological research employs a number of technical applications. This area of Archaeoworld is related to some of these technical application areas. The one thing that all of the technologies discussed in this section have in common is that they are open source, meaning that their source code is available for modification by any developer that wants to. The availability of source code results in powerful applications that have multiple collaborating developers and tend to target highly useful functionality.
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Quantitative Methods
- This area of Archaeoworld is dedicated to information and discussions of quantitative methods of interest to archaeological researchers.
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Geospatial Applications
- This area of Archaeoworld is dedicated to information and discussions relating to the application of Geographic Information Technologies to archaeological research.
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Technical Document Production
- The production of professional documents requires a combination of text, graphics, and bibliographic information. Many tools exist to aid in document production, but the open source LATeX document preparation system generates high-quality documents, encourages a separation between content and layout, may be run on a variety of computer platforms, and is supported by a large number of editors. This area of Archaeoworld is dedicated to providing information relating to LATeX to the archaeological community.
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Database Management
- The efficient management of archaeological data is an important prerequisite to analysis, documentaion and collaboration. This area of Archaeoworld provides some information relating to archaeological data management.
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Open Source Software
- Open source software licenses require that the source code for applications be made available to users of an application for their review and modification. Open source applications are also often referred to as 'Free Software', but this phrase refers to the user's freedom to access, modify, and redistribute the source code, not its price (though most Free Software is also available free of cost). This area of Archaeoworld provides access to information about open source/free software.
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Online Mapping
- Online mapping and geospatial analysis tools provide a powerful means to present spatially referenced data and tools facilitating the use of those data to broad user communities through internet accessible web interfaces.
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Geospatial Data
- Some useful geospatial datasets
