The occupation of the natural harbor of Vado Ligure since the Republican age was already known during the last century. 

The preventive archaeology work and assistance carried out between 2014 and 2018 in the natural harbour of Vado Ligure, Liguria, Italy, for the realisation of a large multipurpose port platform has brought to the acquisition of an enormous mass of finds datable between the Roman and Modern age. The different investigative methodologies have allowed the acquisition of complex information which rendered necessary, in addition to the classification of finds, a functional data management system which could contextually meet the study, conservation and enhancement needs.

For the realization of the systematization activities of the archeological data acquired and the filing of materials a computer information system was planned which would link the information contained in the relational finds database with geo-stratigraphic GIS information; the result of the interaction of these two data management systems enables us to manage and organize information from several points of view for analytical needs (qualitative, distributive, geographic).