Proefsleuf App

Trial Trench App – The Digital Trench Registration Tool for Trial Trenching.
The Trial Trench App is a modern and innovative mobile application developed for archaeologists, field workers and heritage professionals involved in conducting and documenting trial trenching. This app offers an efficient, secure and streamlined way to digitally capture, manage and transfer all relevant field data. The app is fully integrated with the web-based Trial Trench platform and is designed to make field work easier, faster and more error-free.

Instead of paper notes, loose photos, Excel sheets and manual transfers, the Trial Trench App allows users to digitize their entire workflow — right from the location where the research takes place.

📱 Key Features
✅ 1. Log in to the Trial Trench Platform
Users securely log in to the existing Trial Trench platform via a secure HTTPS connection. Authentication is done via the existing web portal, which means that the mobile app is only accessible to registered users or organizations.

✅ 2. Register and manage trenches
The core functionality of the app is the registration of trenches: the elongated dug profiles in which research takes place. Users can directly enter trench data such as:

Location (automatically with GPS)

Dimensions

Research objective

Observations

Attachments and photos

✅ 3. Layer structure and stratigraphy
Users can enter layers, such as the stratigraphy of the terrain, via the app. This carefully builds up the cross-section, which is important for later interpretations.

✅ 4. Add photos directly
The app supports direct access to the camera and photo library of the device. This allows users to add field photos to trenches, tracks or finds, with automatic linking and uploading to the server.

✅ 5. GPS location and map link
Thanks to GPS integration, the location of each trench or find is automatically saved. The location data is displayed on a map, which is also available on the desktop version of the platform.

✅ 6. Offline use (optional with caching)
The app is designed with field conditions in mind. In limited internet, input data can be temporarily stored offline and automatically synchronized as soon as a connection is available.

🔐 Security and privacy
The app is built with attention to data security and privacy. All data is sent encrypted via HTTPS. No sensitive personal data is processed unless strictly necessary (for example login data or audit logs). No data is shared with third parties without the permission of the user or organization.

🧩 Technical Integration
The Proefslot App is linked to the Proefslot web platform, where the data is stored in a central database and accessible to teams in the office. Thanks to this cloud integration, collaboration between field workers, project managers and analysts is much more efficient. Users can generate reports or analyses based on the entered data immediately without any additional manual actions.

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