.:: CAA 2010 -Fusion of Cultures- ::. Computer Applications in Archaeology, Granada (Spain) 6-9 April 2010

José Enrique López Peris, Pablo Sañudo Die, Carlos Verdasco Cebrián, Ernesto Manzanedo Llorente

The aim of this workshop will be the presentation of the Mnemea database system. Mnemea is a computer application based on relational database systems, whose main aim is the management of the archaeological data, both technical and administrative. This application has been developed on the base of the commercial software Filemaker^© v10 and according to the main rules of standardization. The application provides friendly use and high capacity.

This software is designed to assist in the management of Archaeological museums, public agencies of heritage management or research teams specialized in archaeological surveying.

Mnemea software has been developed from several inter-related modules, that allows a better efficiency in data entry. Each of which handles different data types:

• Administrative and spatial site management.

• Management of fieldwork seasons in each site.

• Powerful tool for stratigraphic units management.

• Registration, classification and analysis of archaeological items and samples.

• Management of archaeological items location and storage.

• Graphic records (photography and plots).

• Digital records management.

This computer application provides an high searching capacity and report generation. The software can work locally or remote, in client-server mode, and can hold up an elevated number of system entries, giving it a great networking capacity.

The session will run 60-90 minutes, focused to explain the features and powerful of this computer application and several study cases by the developers, in which the attendees can participate actively. Also, will be presented the use of this database system in the management of a regional museum by the museum director. Attendees do not need prerequisites other than minimal computer ability or minimal experience computer data management. The maximum number of participants will be limited to the size of the venue.