First steps towards a national geoinformation system "Archaeological sites of Russia"

Principles underlying an automated system ofarchaeological information processing (ASIP) “Terek "are described. It is part of a nation-wide geoinformation system “Archaeological sites of Russia”, designed at the Institute of Archaeology, Russian Academy of Sciences, and based on the information from archaeological reports that were submitted to the archives of the IA RAS. Currently, under Russian Science Foundation Project No. 14-1803755, field data covered by the 2009-2012 reports are being fed into “Terek", which at the present time contains a brief description of approximately 20,000 sites and places where no archaeological remains were revealed by surveys. Open access cartographic systems enable automated mapping of sites based on Internet geoservers such as Google.Maps, YandexMaps, and SAS.Planeta. Examples of such a mapping are provided.