Mapping bibliography. A methodological approach for bibliographic data management

Abstract

Archaeological research always starts from a documentary and bibliographic search to collect data and knowledge already acquired on the subject to be studied. This task results in a large amount of information that, for cases of macro and / or semi‑macro studies, such as the study project of the archeological landscape of Citânia de Sanfins, demands a strategy for documentation management. Thus, for this case study, we used the information system 2ArchIS to structure and normalize the compiled data and associate them with metadata. This system allowed us to optimize the search process of searching and mapping data, either in the direct interrogation of the database or through its mapping in a Geographic Information System that links documents and bibliography meta(data) to archaeological sites, allowing graphic representations of quantitative and qualitative data.