The School is aimed at students, postgraduate students, researchers and professionals in the archaeological field interested and/or committed in the field of computer applications in archaeology that wish to strength and consolidate their methodological and theoretical expertise and knowledge in the fields of quantitative methods and data analysis. The School is organized by the Archaeology Department of the University of Siena, under the auspices and with the collaboration of the Department of Mathematics of the University of Parma and in collaboration with the Val di Cornia Parks Society.
The I-QMDAA is part of the International Summer School in Archaeology of the University of Siena.
The objective of the Free Open Source IDAMS (OpenIDAMS) project is to produce, keep up-to-date and disseminate a free open source software package for data management, exploration and archiving, with report generation facilities, by transforming IDAMS into an evolving, inter-related set of end-user and developer services. The UNESCO Secretariat is the promoter, co-ordinator and supervisor of the project.
The complete description is on the UNESCO website.
Even metal detector users are running open source software! So why archaeologists should stay behind?
Happydigger is a program which can be used for cataloging archaeological finds. It is intended both for semi-professional use and by amateurs (e.g. metal detector users) who want to keep track of their finds. Data is stored in a database with extensive find and findspot details. If images are available, they will be displayed together with the find information. This program is written for Linux.