Towards a web-based archaeological excavation platform for smartphones: Review and case studies

The paper proposes a web-based platform suitable for the support of archaeological excavations and related fields, which will execute on smartphones. After a review of related work, the basic features of such a platform are outlined. The platform supports documenting content on an underlying XML database through a content management system, producing and exchanging notes, map interaction, use of a shared whiteboard, collaboration among archaeologists etc. The architecture of the platform is presented along with three case studies describing its usefulness and prospects for the archaeological field practice.