Unearthing the Past with PostgreSQL: How Open Source is Revolutionizing Digital Archaeology
Thursday, October 24 at 16:00–16:50
Archaeology is undergoing a digital revolution, and PostgreSQL is at the forefront. This talk explores how a team of French archaeologists leveraged PostgreSQL and PostGIS to create B.A.D.A.S.S. (Base Archaeological Data: Attributive and Spatial System), transforming their field data collection and analysis processes.
We'll dive into the challenges of digitizing complex archaeological data, the benefits of spatial databases for site mapping, and how a web interface allows real-time data entry on excavation sites.
We'll see how we used an open-source tool (SQLPage: https://sql.ophir.dev/) to build a full production-ready web UI on top of the database very quickly, and without any other knowledge in the team than just SQL.
Join us to discover how open-source tools are helping uncover history more efficiently than ever before.
