Flexibility and efficiency
Channel: Recording Archaeology
Date: 2019-01-01

When it comes to Archaeology, there are different approaches to information and data collection. There can be structure or anarchy. Structure is represented by formalized data collection down to every point. Anarchy on the other side is characterized by a lack of rules and the documentation becomes individual, based on knowledge, archaeological questions, number of staff etc.

Intrasis stands for something else, that we can call Structured Anarchy, where you actually can have both approaches. It’s the project managers who decide. Once you have decided which information to store, you can always reuse the settings you have made or alter it for different project approaches. Due to the flexibility of Intrasis, and the structured data model, your data always allows the same type of output, analysis by Wizards etc. Intrasis capability to store data from different disciplines, all according to the needs of each specialist, also makes it truly inter-disciplinary. 

Intrasis is a combined database and GIS, especially designed for archaeology. It is used throughout the whole excavation process, from import of survey and input of archaeological data, through analysis, to layouts of maps for the report. You use the same software for all projects and that is how it will be an efficient tool that everyone easily gets familiar with.

We will in this paper show how Intrasis can be used in projects with different approaches, excavation methods or goals.

Karin Lund, Jane Jansen