IOSA.it Open Archaeology

Produced by the EU MINERVA project, this is a CMS built specifically for small/medium museums. It's prototype that is fully compliant with XHTML, CSS and WAI recommendations.

Museo&Web is distributed under the GNU GPL license.

The site is a web-based GIS database that will contain a basic record sheet for each site excavated by AIAC for any period in a given year with, at the discretion of the site director, the interim report for the year, together with any further documentation the director wishes to add. There is no chronological limitation to the sites listed, which range from the Upper Palaeolithic to the nineteenth century, and reports on restoration projects and new museum displays are also welcomed. The site is multilingual, with editions currently available English, Italian, Bulgarian, Macedonian and Romanian, and Arabic and French versions in progress. Sites are searchable by project name, by period and type of site, and by clickable maps which provide an overview of the excavation locations.
This webgis application is based on UMN Mapserver.

Data Explorer is a powerful system of tools and user interfaces for visualizing data. It is an open source project based on IBM's Visualization Data Explorer.
It can be used for visualizing anything, from examining simple data sets to analyzing complex, time-dependent data from disparate sources, OpenDX has features and functions that let you easily gain meaningful insight into your data.
OpenDX is a powerful, full-featured software package for the visualization of scientific, engineering and analytical data: its open system design is built on familiar standard interface environments. And its sophisticated data model provides users with great flexibility in creating visualizations.
In general terms the visualization of data can be considered a 3-stage process:

1. Describing and importing data
2. Processing the data through a visualization program
3. Presenting the resulting image.

On this site you will find areas to learn more about visualization approaches, free software, a gallery of images created by the Science Museum of Minnesota and members of this site, pre-made textures, models, and scenes to use as building blocks for your own animations, and more, released under a Creative Commons license.
The 3D toolkit includes Blender.

The "Journal of Intercultural and Interdisciplinary Archaeology" (Acronym: JIIA) is an online serial publication on archaeology, antiquity sciences and archaeological applied sciences.
It is interdisciplinary and concentrates particularly on the problems of interculturality in the ancient world.
It uses scientific contributions offered freely by scholars from the university and scientific research world and organises the open-access dissemination of the research results.

The Ure Museum of Greek Archaeology at the University of Reading is developing a Virtual Lightbox for Museums and Archives (VLMA), an RDF-driven visual collections aggregator/syndicator applet that allows viewing, collecting, and reusing distributed visual archives and relevant metadata via P2P technology. It is funded in 2004-2005 by JISC and is a joint project with the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science.

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.