Linguaggi di marcatura per la conservazione e la valorizzazione dell'informazione archeologica

A research experiment has been conducted by the Istituto di Studi sulle Civiltà Italiche e del Mediterraneo Antico of the Italian CNR to set up a new model of archiving, managing and querying archaeological information coming from the excavations in ancient Caere. The project centres on the analysis of excavation diaries and their XML encoding and recreates within a digital framework the diverse phases of the terrain "reading", from data documentation to archaeological interpretation, by formulating a structured model of data description within a Geographical Information System. The integration between the DTD established to formally describe the excavation data and the elements of the TEI Lite and Dublin Core standards makes it also possible to record and query data coming from both published excavation reports and archive documents dating from the Nineteenth century. The research work is aimed at preserving archaeological information through digital supports, electronic exchange formats and reliability of the information integrity. Moreover, it makes an attempt to experiment and develop new forms of knowledge diffusion which are more suitable for interactive web consultation than passive reading.