The Ferento Project. The Role of GIS and Databases for the data integration and analysis

This paper relates the specific experience for the collaboration between the Institute for Technologies Applied to Cultural Heritage and the University of Tuscia in managing archaeological excavations on a GIS platform. The basic idea was the reproduce on a graphic level the exact situation we find in the field. We therefore organised our objects according to an overall composite plan representing all the excavated layers, as well as the necessary landscape features, related only spatial terms; detailed alphanumerical data and interpreted information were derived from the DBMS using specific identifiers.