IOSA.it Open Archaeology

During the past year we have started developing free / open source software to meet some needs of our archaeological jobs.
We follow standard community open development practices, ranging from mailing lists for discussing roadmaps and providing user support to open repositories of source code in decentralized version control systems. Tools we are working on include:

• Total Open Station, a program to download and export data from your total station using any operating system
• GNUCal, a clone of current software tools that perform radiocarbon age calibration
• a set of algorithms to do statistical analyses of stone walls
• a program to automate the generation of the Harris Matrix diagram

These programs are of different quality and aim. Some of them are just proof of concept implementations, while others are fully working and actually used for real work.