Digitalno dokumentiranje ali kako smo pretihotapili bite na arheološka izkopavanja / Digital Documentation or How we Smuggled Bites in Archaeological Excavations

Abstract: The article first provides an overview of the theoretical
principles essential to the development of the methodology and
documentation of archaeological excavations. The same principles
have underpinned the digital documentation system designed and
used by the company PJP d.o.o. and the Celje Regional Museum.
In particular, the article focuses on the custom-made digital
documentation software solution, its continued development, the
associated database, and the introduction of new documentation
methods (photogrammetry, 3D models). The database and 3D
documentation procedures have been designed to facilitate use in
GIS software, which is increasingly gaining importance beyond
mere visualisation. Besides minimising the time required for postexcavation
procedures, such an approach improves the quality
(accuracy, reliability) of the interpretation. Furthermore, it allows
a reconstruction of the excavation site and each individual phase.
Digital documentation procedures yield large amounts of data
which, in essence, are a transformed version of the cultural heritage
that was destroyed in the process. In this sense, the data itself
becomes cultural heritage and as such must be handled carefully
in its own right.