**Author details**

292 Cartography – A Tool for Spatial Analysis

**4.3. Initiatives** 

communication and processing methods.

modern computer technologies. FreeGIS Project (http://freegis.org/).

Other useful related initiatives and websites are:

Opensource.com (http://opensource.com/).

dissemination to a wider audience than ever before.

**5. Conclusions and prospective** 

products.

access to different tools and demos concernig to geospatial data are:

The Open Source Geospatial Foundation (http://www.osgeo.org/).

 Free Open Source Software Mac User Group (http://www.freesmug.org/). The OSSwin Project: Open Source for Windows (http://osswin.sourceforge.net/).

experiences. We aim to compare their results and to disseminate them worlwide.

the dissemination of both the cultural heritage and the free Open Source software.

The above mentioned Open Source software, though not and exhaustive list, is regularly checked by the Task Group, and tools are tested and used in different research projects and

We invite all communities and professionals, that are currently involved in researches or management of the cultural heritage, to share their experiences with Open Source software

We include not only professional works, but other initiatives as courses, conferences, congresses, publications, related blogs and websites, and other materials wich contribute to

All of them will be included in the Task Group's web page, as Information and Communication Technologies provide powerful media for education, research and the

OpenGIS Consortium (http://www.opengeospatial.org/).

 François Letellier's web site (http://www.flet.fr/) and blog. Open Source Initiative (http://www.opensource.org/).

Opensource CMS (http://www.opensourcecms.com/).

 ICA Commission on Maps and the Internet (http://maps.unomaha.edu/ica/): chaired by Rex Cammack (rcammack@unomaha.edu), works on cartographic presentation,

Among the Open Source software dissemination initiatives that provide information and

 Arc-Team Community (http://www.arc-team.com/): provides archaeological documentation and processing methods. Virtual Archaeology & 3D modelling. Cultural Heritage Computing (CHC) Salzburg, (https://www.sbg.ac.at/chc/ chc\_site\_en/chc\_ziele.html): located at the University of Salzburg, the team aims at the documentation and procurement of contents concerned with cultural heritage using Pilar Chias and Tomas Abad *Technical School of Architecture and Geodesy, University of Alcala, Madrid, Spain* 
