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RAMSES (Remote Archeological Mobile Support Enhanced System) is an outdoor application of mobile computing to field archaeology, whose prototype has already been field tested in Summer 1998 at the site of Poliochni in Greece. The requirements for both hardware and software are illustrated; the system is composed by a fixed station, acting as object repository, and a few mobile units which input archaeological evidence by means of electromagnetic pen. The software components on both fixed and mobile systems and their interaction are described as well.
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Funds for supporting such efforts have been given by CNR, the Italian National Research Council, within the three year national project ”Cultural Heritage” (1997-1999).
The authors gratefully acknowledge the programming efforts of several Computer Science students who developed the various releases of RAMSES.
Further details on this project are available at the URL: http://www.disi.unige.it/person/DoderoG/pub_pfbc.html
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Ancona, M., Dodero, G., Gianuzzi, V. (1999). RAMSES: A Mobile Computing System for Field Archaeology. In: Gellersen, HW. (eds) Handheld and Ubiquitous Computing. HUC 1999. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1707. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-48157-5_21
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