Fieldnotes for the development and publication of open standards for the vectorisation of archaeologic and architectonic topographic legacy data

The digitisation and vectorisation of archaeological/architectonic graphical legacy documentation is a step that any archaeological project deals with and solves by following its own specific requirements. The article introduces the Simple Vectorisation Protocol (SVP), a GIS-based protocol for acquiring in the digital domain sketches and maps by following a very concise yet rich syntax, able to reverse engineering published and archive data. The result is a multidimensional dataset, ready to be used in specific projects, easy to publish on online repositories and highly re- usable and remixable, while still maintaining a feature-level bibliographic reference to the original source.