Building a Spatial Database for Romanian Archaeological Sites

Spatial databases are a new technology in the database systems which allow storing, retrieving and maintaining geospatial data. This paper describes the steps which we have followed to model, design and develop a spatial database for Romanian archaeological sites and their assemblies. The system ana...

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Main Authors: Aura-Mihaela MOCANU, Manole VELICANU
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Bucharest University of Economic Studies 2011-03-01
Series:Database Systems Journal
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Online Access:http://www.dbjournal.ro/archive/3/1_Mocanu_Velicanu.pdf
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Summary:Spatial databases are a new technology in the database systems which allow storing, retrieving and maintaining geospatial data. This paper describes the steps which we have followed to model, design and develop a spatial database for Romanian archaeological sites and their assemblies. The system analysis was made using the well known Entity-Relationship model; the system design included the conceptual, the external and the internal schemas design, and the system development meant developing the needed database objects and programs. The designed database allows users to load vector geospatial data about the archaeological sites in two distinct spatial reference systems WGS84 and STEREO70, temporal data about the historical periods and cultures, other descriptive data and documents as references to the archaeological objects.
ISSN:2069-3230