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Fwd: master in multimedia environments and cultural heritage

2009-10-27T10:48:54Z

Dear friends and colleagues,
the call for applications for Napoli University “Federico II” Master in MULTIMEDIA ENVIRONMENTS AND CULTURAL HERITAGE, will close on 9 NOVEMBER 2009 .

The master is focused on multimedia methodologies and technologies and on their application to Cultural Heritage.
The scientific coordinator is Prof. Giovanna Greco, the Scientific Committee is composed by: Domenico Baldari, Ernesto Burattini, Francesca Cantone, Angelo Chianese, Massimo Marrelli, Raffaello Mazzacane, Giuseppe Orefice, Raffaella Pierobon, Giuseppe Tortora.
The didactical organization includes theoric lessons and on line lessons with webconferences and webseminars by major national and international experts; furthermore students will attend stages in institutions and companies operating in cultural heritage multimedia.

The master lasts one year, taking 1500 hours of theoric lessons, on line learning, stages, laboratories), and it gives 60 academic credits.

Best Regards
dott. Francesca Cantone
Master in Ambienti Multimediali e Beni Culturali
Università degli Studi di Napoli “Federico II”
Via Marina 33,
80133,
Napoli - Italy
tel +39 081 2536163
fax +39 081 2536493
http://www.unina.it
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Il giorno 30 settembre 2009 11.52, Master in Ambienti Multimediali e Beni Culturali <mastermultibec@...> ha scritto:

Cari amici, spett.li colleghi e conoscenti,

con la presente Vi segnalo CHE IL 9 NOVEMBRE 2009 scade il termine per l'iscrizione al MASTER IN AMBIENTI MULTIMEDIALI PER I BENI CULTURALI, che si svolgerà nell’anno accademico 2009-2010 presso l’Università degli Studi di Napoli “Federico II”.

Il master è incentrato sulle metodologie e tecniche multimediali e sulla loro applicazione nell’ambito dei Beni Culturali.
Il Coordinamento scientifico del master è affidato alla prof. Giovanna Greco, il Consiglio Scientifico del master è composto da Domenico Baldari, Ernesto Burattini, Francesca Cantone, Angelo Chianese, Massimo Marrelli, Raffaello Mazzacane, Giuseppe Orefice, Raffaella Pierobon, Giuseppe Tortora.
La modalità didattica prevista include interventi in aula e in e-learning con contributi e collegamenti in videoconferenza di docenti, ricercatori e professionisti di riferimento nazionali ed internazionali ed inoltre attività di tirocinio e stage presso istituzioni, enti e società operanti nel settore della multimedialità applicata ai beni culturali.

Il Master ha una durata annuale (tra lezioni teoriche, apprendimento on line, stages, laboratori) per un totale di 1500 ore, e conferisce 60 crediti accademici.

dott. Francesca Cantone

Master in Ambienti Multimediali e Beni Culturali
Università degli Studi di Napoli “Federico II”
Via Marina 33,
80133,
Napoli - tel 081 2536163 - fax 081 2536493
http://www.unina.it/
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2 october - grants - Master in MULTIMEDIA ENVIRONMENTS AND CULTURAL HERITAGE

2009-09-30T07:17:05Z

Cari amici, spett.li colleghi e conoscenti,
con la presente Vi segnalo l’istituzione del MASTER IN AMBIENTI MULTIMEDIALI PER I BENI CULTURALI, che si svolgerà nell’anno accademico 2009-2010 presso l’Università degli Studi di Napoli “Federico II”.
Il master è incentrato sulle metodologie e tecniche multimediali e sulla loro applicazione nell’ambito dei Beni Culturali.
Il Coordinamento scientifico del master è affidato alla prof. Giovanna Greco, il Consiglio Scientifico del master è composto da Domenico Baldari, Ernesto Burattini, Francesca Cantone, Angelo Chianese, Massimo Marrelli, Raffaello Mazzacane, Giuseppe Orefice, Raffaella Pierobon, Giuseppe Tortora.
La modalità didattica prevista include interventi in aula e in e-learning con contributi e collegamenti in videoconferenza di docenti, ricercatori e professionisti di riferimento nazionali ed internazionali ed inoltre attività di tirocinio e stage presso istituzioni, enti e società operanti nel settore della multimedialità applicata ai beni culturali.
Il bando di selezione è in via di pubblicazione sul sito web http://www.unina.it
Il Master ha una durata annuale (tra lezioni teoriche, apprendimento on line, stages, laboratori) per un totale di 1500 ore, e conferisce 60 crediti accademici.
Il Master in AMBIENTI MULTIMEDIALI PER I BENI CULTURALI è ammesso al Catalogo Interregionale di Alta Formazione 2009 della Regione Campania e può essere fruito gratuitamente attraverso la richiesta di un voucher formativo del valore di 3000 euro da inoltrare alla Regione Campania entro e non oltre il 2 ottobre 2009
Le persone interessate a fare richiesta del voucher formativo devono, come previsto dall’avviso pubblicato con decreto Dirigenziale 165/2009:
• registrarsi al portale del Catalogo all’indirizzo http://www.altaformazioneinrete.it
• compilare la domanda di assegnazione del voucher selezionando il titolo del corso Master in AMBIENTI MULTIMEDIALI PER I BENI CULTURALI;
• compilare la domanda, stamparla e sottoscriverla;
• allegare autocertificazione attestante il possesso dei requisiti richiesti e la condizione occupazionale/professionale ai sensi dell’art.47 del DPR 28 dicembre 2000 n° 445 e fotocopia semplice di documento di identità;
• far pervenire con qualsiasi mezzo la domanda e gli allegati a : Regione Campania – Settore Orientamento Professionale – Centro Direzionale Napoli Isola A/6 – 80143 Napoli
ENTRO E NON OLTRE LE ORE 13,00 DEL 2 OTTOBRE 2009 (non farà fede il timbro postale).
Sarà possibile presentare una sola domanda di voucher a valere su questo avviso.

dott. Francesca Cantone
Master in Ambienti Multimediali e Beni Culturali
Università degli Studi di Napoli “Federico II”
Via Marina 33,
80133,
Napoli - tel 081 2536163 - fax 081 2536493
http://www.unina.it/
Su facebook: ambientimultimediali beniculturali
Su twitter: http://twitter.com/mastermultibec
Info: mastermultibec@...
*******FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT
*******MASTER IN MULTIMEDIA ENVIRONMENTS FOR CULTURAL HERITAGE
******* aa 2009/2010
******* Napoli University “Federico II”
******* http://www.unina.it
******* mastermultibec@...
******* facebook: ambientimultimediali beniculturali
******* twitter: http://twitter.com/mastermultibec

Dear friends and colleagues,

Napoli University “Federico II” is organizing a Master in MULTIMEDIA ENVIRONMENTS AND CULTURAL HERITAGE, to be held during 2009/2010 academic year.
The master is focused on multimedia methodologies and technologies and on their application to Cultural Heritage.
The scientific coordinator is Prof. Giovanna Greco, the Scientific Committee is composed by: Domenico Baldari, Ernesto Burattini, Francesca Cantone, Angelo Chianese, Massimo Marrelli, Raffaello Mazzacane, Giuseppe Orefice, Raffaella Pierobon, Giuseppe Tortora.
The didactical organization includes theoric lessons and on line lessons with webconferences and webseminars by major national and international experts; furthermore students will attend stages in institutions and companies operating in cultural heritage multimedia.
The call for selection is going to be published on Federico II University web site: www.unina.it
The master lasts one year, taking 1500 hours of theoric lessons, on line learning, stages, laboratories), and it gives 60 academic credits.
The Master has been selected in the Interregional Higher Education Catalogue of BASILICATA, CAMPANIA, EMILIA-ROMAGNA, FRIULI VENEZIA GIULIA, LAZIO, SARDEGNA, SICILIA, VALLE D’AOSTA, VENETO regions so it can be attended for free by applying for a 3000 euro voucher (bursary) by registering to Higher Education Catalogue website www.altaformazioneinrete.it and delivering the application and the required attaches by 2 october 2009 to: Regione Campania – Settore Orientamento Professionale – Centro Direzionale Napoli Isola A/6 – 80143 Napoli.

Best Regards

dott. Francesca Cantone

Master in Ambienti Multimediali e Beni Culturali
Università degli Studi di Napoli “Federico II”
Via Marina 33,
80133,
Napoli - Italy
tel +39 081 2536163
fax +39 081 2536493
http://www.unina.it
facebook: ambientimultimediali beniculturali
Twitter: http://twitter.com/mastermultibec
Info: mastermultibec@...

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AAA 2009 Call for Papers on "Google Earth, Open Source and other Emerging Spatial Technologies: Innovation and Application in Archaeology"

2009-09-01T00:29:59Z

Dear list,

We would like to invite people to submit abstracts for the AAA (Australian Archaeological Association) session this year on “Google Earth, Open Source and other Emerging Spatial Technologies: Innovation and Application in Archaeology”. The session is being convened by Illya Santos and Stafford Smith at the University of Western Australia. If you would like to present then please forward an Abstract to us by September the 30^th.

If you would like more information about our session please contact us (details below) and please distribute this to any of your colleagues who you feel may be interested. For further information on the conference please visit http://www.flinders.edu.au/ehlt/conferences/archaeology/aaa2009/aaa2009_home.cfm

Google Earth, Open Source and other Emerging Spatial Technologies: Innovation and Application in Archaeology

In this session we would like to examine the ways in which emerging spatial technologies are being used in the study and practice of archaeology in Australia and abroad. Archaeologists have been using aerial photographs for over 70 years to study the ground and provide targets for excavation and survey. Since the 70s, often in tandem with aerial surveys, archaeologists have been using GIS programs to map and analyze sites. Recently however, there has been a proliferation of spatial technologies, from recording devices, to economically viable satellite imagery, to open source software.

Google Earth is probably the best known of these emerging spatial technologies. In addition to its repository of satellite imagery, it also offers an easily accessible platform to distribute spatial data, through Keyhole Markup Language. A number of open source geospatial technologies are also emerging as real alternatives to traditionally expensive options with everything from operating systems specific to archaeology to fully customizable GIS programs. These tools are being used in creative ways for viewing, displaying, analyzing and storing information by research, commercial and education organizations all over the world. How is this reflected in archaeology currently? What are Australian archaeologists doing with these technologies now and what would we like to do in the future?

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Illya Santos (Geospatial Technologies)

eureka archaeological research and consulting UWA

Archaeology M405

University of Western Australia

35 Stirling Highway

Crawley 6009

p: (08) 6488 3948

f: (08) 6488 1023

e: eureka@...

Illya.sparkes.santos@...

Stafford Smith
Research Assistant
Aerial Archaeology of Jordan Project
School of Humanities
University of Western Australia

R: G30, Arts Building
T: 08 64882188

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Entra in Facebook

2009-07-05T09:35:05Z

Facebook

facebook

Entra in Facebook

Ciao list@...,

ho creato un profilo su Facebook dove posso pubblicare foto, video ed eventi e vorrei aggiungerti ai miei amici per poterli condividere con te. Prima di tutto, devi iscriverti a Facebook! Poi anche tu potrai creare il tuo profilo personale!

Grazie,
Francesco

Per iscriverti a Facebook, usa il link in basso:

http://www.facebook.com/p.php?i=1536211343&k=Y51TX3T4U36FUCD1QB63YQW2ZQEG&r

È stato inviato un invito a iscriversi a Facebook a list@... da parte di Francesco de Virgilio. Se non vuoi più ricevere questo tipo di e-mail da parte di Facebook, clicca qui per annullare l'iscrizione.
L'indirizzo degli uffici di Facebook è: 1601 S. California Ave., Palo Alto, CA 94304.

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Re: Database dati archeologici

2009-06-09T04:17:41Z

Il giorno mar, 09/06/2009 alle 11.43 +0200, Leonardo de Virgilio ha
scritto:
> Buongiorno lista,
>
> per me è finito il momento di lurkare. Seguo il progetto IOSA sia sul
> sito che su Launchpad da un bel pò, ed è giunto per me il momento di
> contribuire.

Hi Francesco,
you probably meant this message for the *italian* mailing list :)

http://lists.faunalia.it/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/archeologia

I realize there's a bit of confusion about these two mailing lists, I
should probably explain this in a better way on the iosa.it website,
right?

Concerning your question, there is no "short answer", but based on your
requirements you should try pyArchInit
http://www.pyarchinit.altervista.org/ a QGIS plugin written by Luca
Mandolesi that does almost exactly what you need. Luca presented its
plugin in Rome last month during the 4th workshop, and he promised he
would release source code soon.

If you're in a hurry, starting from scratch right now is unlikely to
give you something usable in a few weeks. If you need some help with
QGIS & co. you should ask on the gfoss.it mailing list (Luca Mandolesi
is subscribed to that one for sure).

Ciao,
steko

P.S. I think you should find some time to tell the world about the first
archaeological mapping party you did in Pompeii last year, it's
something interesting.

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http://www.iosa.it/ Open Archaeology

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Database dati archeologici

2009-06-09T02:43:56Z

Buongiorno lista,

per me è finito il momento di lurkare. Seguo il progetto IOSA sia sul
sito che su Launchpad da un bel pò, ed è giunto per me il momento di
contribuire.
All'interno dell'Università di Bari stiamo pensando ad un software per
GNU/Linux che ci permetta di compilare le schede di US secondo i
modelli dell'ICCD, di raccogliere tutti i dati in un database e di
interfacciarlo con QGIS, integrando anche un tool per l'esportazione
in LaTeX. Eventualmente si stava pensando anche ad un'integrazione con
gli strumenti forniti dal progetto OpenStreetMap (per esempio Mapnik).

Siccome il tempo stringe e gli scavi stanno per ricominciare, vorrei
sapere se esiste qualcosa di già pronto almeno per la compilazione
delle schede e per il GIS, altrimenti cominceremo a scrivere qualcosa
"from scratch", partecipando all'attività di IOSA su Launchpad.

Grazie mille :)

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Fwd: campagna caro candidato

2009-05-28T08:57:51Z

Ciao a tutti,
giro una mail di Piergiovanna

Luca Bezzi

Arc-Team
Archaeology & Free Software
http://www.arc-team.com/
luca.bezzi@...

----- Original Message -----
From: Piergiovanna Grossi grossi.piergiovanna@...
To: damiano lotto kalingaanizer@..., Denis Francisci
denis.francisci@...,luca bezzi luca.bezzi@..., Stefano Costa
steko@..., Gianluca Pesce gianluca.pesce@...
Sent: Thu 09/05/28 14:55
Subject: Fwd: campagna caro candidato
Salve a tutti
Sto collaborando con la Associazione per il Software Libero alla realizzazione
della campagna caro candidato, volta a sensibilizzare i candidati alle prossime
elezioni verso il tema del software libero. Siamo ormai in dirittura d'arrivo e
il numero di candidati che hanno ad ora aderito è abbastanza buono (siamo oggi a
. Vorrei chiedervi la cortesia di far girare nei prossimi giorni il comunicato
che allego in calce tra i vostri amici e conoscenti, in modo da pubblicizzare il
più possibile l'iniziativa nei pochi giorni utili che ancora ci rimangono per
raccogliere adesioni. La firma del patto da parte di così tanti politici mi pare
un segnale importante di cui l'opinione pubblica dovrà tenere pur conto prima o
poi :)
La domanda sorge spontanea: una volta passate le elezioni che succederà? in
associazione si sta già pensando alla strutturazione del sito per il
monitoraggio, in modo che alle prossime elezioni potremo pubblicare un elenco di
coloro che hanno tenuto fede al patto o meno: che ne dite? a me piace quel che
stanno facendo in Assoli e li sto appoggiando in pieno...se non altro perché
saranno gli unici in Italia a dire dopo 5 anni di mandato cosa ha fatto chi ci
governa...cosa che in italia pare abolita da mo'.
Ringrazio e mi scuso per il disturbo

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COMUNICATO STAMPA

27 MAGGIO 2009

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233 candidati hanno già aderito alla campagna Caro candidato

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http://carocandidato.org/

A 9 giorni dalle elezioni la campagna Caro Candidato ha già
raggiunto importanti risultati.

L'azione di tanti attivisti del software libero ha prodotto l'adesione di
233 candidati (182 adesioni pubblicate), provenienti da partiti di
tutte le aree politiche.

Così i candidati che supportano il software libero "scoprono" i
colleghi del proprio partito che condividono la stessa battaglia:
siamo certi che ciò aiuterà a far crescere la causa del software
libero.

Analizzando i risultati della campagna vediamo che, al momento,
la provincia più libera (cioè con il maggior numero di adesioni) è
Milano, seguita da Torino e Frosinone; Bologna, Capannori e
Castagneto Carducci, invece, sono i comuni più liberi.

Mancano 9 giorni alle elezioni, durante i quali i candidati potranno
ancora aderire alla campagna Caro Candidato.

Sono questi i giorni nei quali si intensificano gli sforzi per far
conoscere Caro Candidato ai molti candidati che, assorbiti dalle
attività della loro campagna, non ne hanno avuto notizia.

La campagna per le elezioni europee, che fa parte del network The
Free Software Pact [http://www.freesoftwarepact.eu/
] è
estremamente importante: il Parlamento e le altre Istituzioni
europee nei prossimi anni dovranno affrontare temi e sfide decisivi
per affermare le idee del software libero e delle libertà digitali, ed è
fondamentale che in Europa siano presenti candidati che sanno
quello che fanno.

per l'Associazione per il Software Libero
il Presidente
Marco Ciurcina

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Chi siamo

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L'Associazione per il Software Libero (Assoli) è un'associazione
senza scopo di lucro che ha come obiettivi principali la diffusione del
software libero in Italia ed una corretta informazione sull'argomento.

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Contatti

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Near/Middle East Archaeology

2009-04-11T16:15:16Z

Here is a great site for you to check out. The Biblical Archaeology Society has been publishing the latest research in the field of archaeology in the Biblical lands since 1975 in their flagship magazine, Biblical Archaeology Review, excerpts of which are available online at www.biblicalarchaeology.org. They have a comprehensive website that posts the latest news from the world of Biblical archaeology, as well as an extensive list of excavations in the Mediterranean world that are looking for dig volunteers. Their archive of thousands of articles published by the foremost scholars in the field is a great resource for researchers and the interested public alike.

Their site also offers Online Exclusives, a Debates section that features the latest controversies in the field, and E-Features: online articles written especially for web visitors. With an active Forum, readers and visitors can join discussions of the latest news and discoveries in the field of Biblical archaeology. Their Travel/Study program offers unique educational opportunities through their U.S. and international seminars, as well as through their scholarly adventure tours to legendary places like Israel, Jordan, Turkey, Greece, Egypt and Cyprus. Check out the Biblical Archaeology Society and Biblical Archaeology Review online—you won’t be disappointed!

Re: Raw Data Now!

2009-03-22T12:28:51Z

Hi Steko,

> Mark,
> the relative wealthiness of other disciplines if compared to archaeology
> is an undeniable truth, but:
>
> * this doesn't apply for ALL of archaeology. In fact there are
> archaeological research projects that involve dozens of people
> and organizations that actually have lots of money (from private
> foundations or from governments)

Sure, but I would have to ask, how much of the archaeology in Italy (I'm
assuming you are working in Italy due to your email address, far enough if
it is a bad assumption)is developer funded? And what laws are there in
place to insure "standards" for developer funded archaeology? While I'd
have to dig around on the SAA and RPA websites, well over half (probably
over 75%)of the archaeology done in the USA these days is
CRM/rescue/developer funded.

For myself, for the last decade or so, for one reason or the other, I've
focused on doing geochemical studies of pottery, lithics, etc. Many CRM
firms, while they might want the analyses done, aren't really willing to
pay for it or are very reluctant to pay even for equipment time. Stupidly
I guess, in the past, all too often, I took an archaeometric job more for
interest than $$$, and hoped I wouldn't loose too much money.

> * it should be also remarked that in any project, there is always
> some cost for publication to take into account: if a large
> project has not publication costs in its budget, it could be a
> problem of bad planning choices

Well, this also gets into the standards and laws concerning projects. All
too many projects in California just have a copy of the report filed with
the State Data center and the SHPO Office.

> * just like Open Source, Open Access doesn't mean "free as in
> beer", even though we all know that for Free and Open Source
> Software this applies for many end users. Someone has to get
> things done in order for an e-journal to be online, with a
> serious peer review workflow, etc, and that someone clearly has
> to be paid. So it's clear that somebody has to pay.

But by the same token though, when I review for Elsevier or Wiley, or so
of the smaller independent journals, I receive no compensation. I see
reviewing as a professional responsibility and a way to enforce some
standards, etc.
Admittedly, I do agree with you on the person getting paid who does the
lay-out, etc.

>
> It's great to see that PlosOne has interest in archaeology (I follow it
> from the very beginning and I'm happy all the times I can read some
> paleoanthropology, palaeopathology or palaeo-x there), and I think the
> "only" major problem would be acceptance of such a revolutionary medium
> by the archaeological (academic) community.

Well, you have the British InterArch or Internet Archaeology journal which
has been slowly gaining status.

Best, Mark Hall

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Re: Raw Data Now!

2009-03-20T14:02:08Z

Hi Mark,

Archaeobotany, archaeogenetics, zooarchaeology, isotope-based studies and Palaeolithic archaeology would probably be most suitable for the submission categories currently used by the PLoS journals. Since PLoS ONE publishes papers in all areas of science, manuscripts in any area of archaeological science would fit its scope, which is described on the journal's website as follows:

'Most conventional journals publish papers from tightly defined subject areas, making it more difficult for readers from other disciplines to read them. PLoS ONE has no such barriers, which helps your research reach the entire scientific community. PLoS ONE will rigorously peer-review your submissions and publish all papers that are judged to be technically sound.'

Hope that helps!

Best wishes,

Nisha

--- On Fri, 20/3/09, mhall@... <mhall@...> wrote:

From: mhall@... <mhall@...>
Subject: Re: Raw Data Now!
To: nishadi_100@...
Cc: archaeology@...
Date: Friday, 20 March, 2009, 3:30 AM

Hi Nisha,

This is very good news then! I'll admit I've never got into all the fine
print on PLOS and was a bit shocked when I did see page charges. I was
also approached by another competitor to join their editorial board for
their open access journal on anthropology and declined due to their stance
on page charges.

Any information on the different areas PLoS is looking for archaeological
manuscripts?

Best, MEH

> In response to 'Part of the problem I think for archaeologists with the
> open access model
> is the page fees--I've yet to see where any of the free, open-source,
> on-line journals will waive them', I just thought I should let you know
> that the open-access journals published by the Public Library of Science
> do allow full or partial fee waivers for anyone who can't afford the
> publication fee. Editors and reviewers have no access to payment
> information, so inability to pay has no effect on whether or not a paper
> is accepted for publication.
>
> I don't want to turn this into a shameless plug for PLoS, and I should say
> that PLoS ONE hasn't really ventured much into archaeology yet, but if you
> are interested then here is a link to more info about the journal:
> http://www.plosone.org/static/information.action and my recent blog about
> archaeology in PLoS ONE http://www.plos.org/cms/node/455
>
> If you have any comments, I'd be very interested to hear them, and if
> you'd like more info about publishing in PLoS then feel free to get in
> touch. As an archaeologist currently working for PLoS, I'm really keen for
> us to publish more archaeology!
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Nisha Doshi
>
>
>
> --- On Thu, 19/3/09, mhall@... <mhall@...> wrote:
>
>
> From: mhall@... <mhall@...>
> Subject: Re: Raw Data Now!
> To: archaeology@...
> Date: Thursday, 19 March, 2009, 8:04 PM
>
>
> ---------------------------- Original Message ----------------------------
> Subject: Re: Raw Data Now!
> From: mhall@...
> Date: Thu, March 19, 2009 1:03 pm
> To: "Stefano Costa" <steko@...>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>> Il giorno mer, 18/03/2009 alle 20.50 +0100, Roberto Bagnara ha scritto:
>>>
>>> Including archeological data, of course:
>>>
>>>
>>> http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/tim_berners_lee_on_the_next_web.html
>>
>> ... and it's not a mere coincidence that these days we hear lots of
>> people talking about open access to archaeological literature and data:
>> http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2009/03/oa-archaeology-and-plos.html
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Steko
>>
>
> Part of the problem I think for archaeologists with the open access model
> is the page fees--I've yet to see where any of the free, open-source,
> on-line
> journals will waive them.
>
> Even when I was employed with a university, they made it clear to me, page
> fees came out of my grant/pocket.
>
> Best, Mark Hall
>
>
>
>
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>
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Re: Raw Data Now!

2009-03-20T12:53:28Z

Il giorno gio, 19/03/2009 alle 13.04 -0700, mhall@... ha
scritto:
>
> Part of the problem I think for archaeologists with the open access
> model is the page fees--I've yet to see where any of the free,
> open-source, on-line journals will waive them.
>
> Even when I was employed with a university, they made it clear to me,
> page fees came out of my grant/pocket.

Mark,
the relative wealthiness of other disciplines if compared to archaeology
is an undeniable truth, but:

* this doesn't apply for ALL of archaeology. In fact there are
archaeological research projects that involve dozens of people
and organizations that actually have lots of money (from private
foundations or from governments)
* it should be also remarked that in any project, there is always
some cost for publication to take into account: if a large
project has not publication costs in its budget, it could be a
problem of bad planning choices
* just like Open Source, Open Access doesn't mean "free as in
beer", even though we all know that for Free and Open Source
Software this applies for many end users. Someone has to get
things done in order for an e-journal to be online, with a
serious peer review workflow, etc, and that someone clearly has
to be paid. So it's clear that somebody has to pay.

It's great to see that PlosOne has interest in archaeology (I follow it
from the very beginning and I'm happy all the times I can read some
paleoanthropology, palaeopathology or palaeo-x there), and I think the
"only" major problem would be acceptance of such a revolutionary medium
by the archaeological (academic) community. I guess that the need for
peer review would make it necessary to involve a number of people from
established positions in academia, so also this problem could be easily
solved. However, gaining reputation is not a quick process IMHO (at
least not reasoning at 2.0 speed).

But, coming back to the original topic proposed by Roberto, we need Raw
Data Now!

Raw data doesn't suffer from all the limitations and requirements of
scientific literature. Building repositories is something other
disciplines have been doing doing for years now. Archaeologists have
hundreds of databases just waiting for an URL to become available for
other archaeologists, other researchers and also for the "general"
public (i.e. the tax-payers). There are technical issues, and not
everyone is able to build a web service around their database. My take
on this topic is:
1. get your data out, perfection will come later;
2. avoid locking your data in proprietary formats;
3. prefer free and open source software for the editing and storage
of your data;

If you're more on the humanities side of archaeology, and you think
"data" doesn't mean anything to you, then please take your EndNote or
Zotero bibliographic database, export it into a readable format and
publish it on the web. Bibliographies are much like data for humanities,
even though they're not everything.

I think this topic is crucial. I'd like to hear from more people about
it.

Cheers,
Steko

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Re: Raw Data Now!

2009-03-19T20:30:01Z

Hi Nisha,

This is very good news then! I'll admit I've never got into all the fine
print on PLOS and was a bit shocked when I did see page charges. I was
also approached by another competitor to join their editorial board for
their open access journal on anthropology and declined due to their stance
on page charges.

Any information on the different areas PLoS is looking for archaeological
manuscripts?

Best, MEH

> In response to 'Part of the problem I think for archaeologists with the
> open access model
> is the page fees--I've yet to see where any of the free, open-source,
> on-line journals will waive them', I just thought I should let you know
> that the open-access journals published by the Public Library of Science
> do allow full or partial fee waivers for anyone who can't afford the
> publication fee. Editors and reviewers have no access to payment
> information, so inability to pay has no effect on whether or not a paper
> is accepted for publication.
>
> I don't want to turn this into a shameless plug for PLoS, and I should say
> that PLoS ONE hasn't really ventured much into archaeology yet, but if you
> are interested then here is a link to more info about the journal:
> http://www.plosone.org/static/information.action and my recent blog about
> archaeology in PLoS ONE http://www.plos.org/cms/node/455
>
> If you have any comments, I'd be very interested to hear them, and if
> you'd like more info about publishing in PLoS then feel free to get in
> touch. As an archaeologist currently working for PLoS, I'm really keen for
> us to publish more archaeology!
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Nisha Doshi
>
>
>
> --- On Thu, 19/3/09, mhall@... <mhall@...> wrote:
>
>
> From: mhall@... <mhall@...>
> Subject: Re: Raw Data Now!
> To: archaeology@...
> Date: Thursday, 19 March, 2009, 8:04 PM
>
>
> ---------------------------- Original Message ----------------------------
> Subject: Re: Raw Data Now!
> From: mhall@...
> Date: Thu, March 19, 2009 1:03 pm
> To: "Stefano Costa" <steko@...>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>> Il giorno mer, 18/03/2009 alle 20.50 +0100, Roberto Bagnara ha scritto:
>>>
>>> Including archeological data, of course:
>>>
>>>
>>> http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/tim_berners_lee_on_the_next_web.html
>>
>> ... and it's not a mere coincidence that these days we hear lots of
>> people talking about open access to archaeological literature and data:
>> http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2009/03/oa-archaeology-and-plos.html
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Steko
>>
>
> Part of the problem I think for archaeologists with the open access model
> is the page fees--I've yet to see where any of the free, open-source,
> on-line
> journals will waive them.
>
> Even when I was employed with a university, they made it clear to me, page
> fees came out of my grant/pocket.
>
> Best, Mark Hall
>
>
>
>
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>
>
>

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Re: Raw Data Now!

2009-03-19T14:10:37Z

In response to 'Part of the problem I think for archaeologists with the open access model
is the page fees--I've yet to see where any of the free, open-source,
on-line journals will waive them', I just thought I should let you know that the open-access journals published by the Public Library of Science do allow full or partial fee waivers for anyone who can't afford the publication fee. Editors and reviewers have no access to payment information, so inability to pay has no effect on whether or not a paper is accepted for publication.

I don't want to turn this into a shameless plug for PLoS, and I should say that PLoS ONE hasn't really ventured much into archaeology yet, but if you are interested then here is a link to more info about the journal: http://www.plosone.org/static/information.action and my recent blog about archaeology in PLoS ONE http://www.plos.org/cms/node/455

If you have any comments, I'd be very interested to hear them, and if you'd like more info about publishing in PLoS then feel free to get in touch. As an archaeologist currently working for PLoS, I'm really keen for us to publish more archaeology!

Best wishes,

Nisha Doshi

--- On Thu, 19/3/09, mhall@... <mhall@...> wrote:

From: mhall@... <mhall@...>
Subject: Re: Raw Data Now!
To: archaeology@...
Date: Thursday, 19 March, 2009, 8:04 PM

---------------------------- Original Message ----------------------------
Subject: Re: Raw Data Now!
From: mhall@...
Date: Thu, March 19, 2009 1:03 pm
To: "Stefano Costa" <steko@...>
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> Il giorno mer, 18/03/2009 alle 20.50 +0100, Roberto Bagnara ha scritto:
>>
>> Including archeological data, of course:
>>
>>
>> http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/tim_berners_lee_on_the_next_web.html
>
> ... and it's not a mere coincidence that these days we hear lots of
> people talking about open access to archaeological literature and data:
> http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2009/03/oa-archaeology-and-plos.html
>
> Cheers,
> Steko
>

Part of the problem I think for archaeologists with the open access model
is the page fees--I've yet to see where any of the free, open-source,
on-line
journals will waive them.

Even when I was employed with a university, they made it clear to me, page
fees came out of my grant/pocket.

Best, Mark Hall

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Re: Raw Data Now!

2009-03-19T13:04:17Z

---------------------------- Original Message ----------------------------
Subject: Re: Raw Data Now!
From: mhall@...
Date: Thu, March 19, 2009 1:03 pm
To: "Stefano Costa" <steko@...>
--------------------------------------------------------------------------

> Il giorno mer, 18/03/2009 alle 20.50 +0100, Roberto Bagnara ha scritto:
>>
>> Including archeological data, of course:
>>
>>
>> http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/tim_berners_lee_on_the_next_web.html
>
> ... and it's not a mere coincidence that these days we hear lots of
> people talking about open access to archaeological literature and data:
> http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2009/03/oa-archaeology-and-plos.html
>
> Cheers,
> Steko
>

Part of the problem I think for archaeologists with the open access model
is the page fees--I've yet to see where any of the free, open-source,
on-line
journals will waive them.

Even when I was employed with a university, they made it clear to me, page
fees came out of my grant/pocket.

Best, Mark Hall

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Re: Raw Data Now!

2009-03-19T01:32:35Z

Il giorno mer, 18/03/2009 alle 20.50 +0100, Roberto Bagnara ha scritto:
>
> Including archeological data, of course:
>
>
> http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/tim_berners_lee_on_the_next_web.html

... and it's not a mere coincidence that these days we hear lots of
people talking about open access to archaeological literature and data:
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2009/03/oa-archaeology-and-plos.html

Cheers,
Steko

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Raw Data Now!

2009-03-18T12:50:24Z

Including archeological data, of course:

http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/tim_berners_lee_on_the_next_web.html

Cheers,

Roberto

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Innovazione Tecnologica per l'Archeologia

2009-01-13T01:34:20Z

Ciao a tutti,
inoltro notizia su questo evento organizzato dal CNR. In programma ci
sono alcuni interventi interessanti.

http://vcg.isti.cnr.it/innovtecharch/

Roma, 12 - 13 febbraio 2009

Iniziativa a cura del Dipartimento Patrimonio Culturale del CNR

INNOVAZIONE TECNOLOGICA PER L’ARCHEOLOGIA

L’evento include un convegno (prima giornata) e alcuni corsi brevi
(seconda giornata)

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4° Workshop OS, FS e Open format nei processi di ricerca archeologica

2009-01-07T08:14:35Z

"4° Workshop Open Source, Free Software e
Open format nei processi di ricerca archeologica".

27 e 28 aprile 2009
Roma, CNR, Piazzale Aldo Moro
http://www.archeo-foss.org/

Con preghiera di massima diffusione. Scusate il ritardo.

Il Comitato Scientifico

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"spearheads" dataset released into the public domain

2008-12-10T11:48:43Z

Dear all,
it's a great pleasure for me to announce that the "spearheads" dataset
used in the "Digging Numbers" textbook by M. Fletcher and G. Lock has
been released by the authors into the public domain.

As you might know, the Quantitative Archaeology Wiki contains a section
dedicated to the book's exercises
<http://wiki.iosa.it/diggingnumbers:start>.

Until now, one had to get a copy of the book to have access to the
example "spearheads" dataset. Since today (some days ago, actually)
anyone can download the dataset in CSV format from the wiki page. Of
course all readers are encouraged to continue using the textbook for
everything else than the exercises.

We are grateful to Prof. Gary Lock who has kindly accepted to release
the dataset into the public domain. I'd like to thank Dr. Andrew R.
Millard who contacted personally Prof. Lock and made the first upload of
the original dataset on the Quantitative Archaeology Wiki, and John
Dougherty who pointed out some problems with the format of the CSV file.

The Digging Numbers exercises on the wiki are almost complete and there
are still just a few rough edges. I hope that it will reach soon a final
version. As always, everyone is welcome to contribute, even
proof-reading helps.

Best regards,
Stefano

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r.walk in GRASS GIS

2008-10-21T03:39:12Z

Dear all,
as I know some of us have had issues in the past with the lack of
documentation about parameters and output of the r.walk module in GRASS
GIS, I'm pleased to send a link to this discussion thread on the
grass-dev mailing list :

http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/grass-dev/2008-October/040430.html

And to the updated r.walk documentation page:

http://grass.itc.it/grass64/manuals/html64_user/r.walk.html

r.walk is an useful tool when it comes to ancient paths simulation,
analysis of travel costs through different terrains and other
movement-related topics.

Best,
Stefano

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[Fwd: Free GIS: gvSIG OA Digital Edition released]

2008-10-13T09:20:17Z

------- Messaggio inoltrato -------
Da: Benjamin Ducke <benjamin.ducke@...>

Oggetto: Free GIS: gvSIG OA Digital Edition released
Data: Mon, 13 Oct 2008 14:44:19 +0100

Dear all,

after an extensive phase of testing and productive use at Oxford
Archaeology, we have decided to release an enhanced OA Digital Edition
of the free gvSIG desktop GIS, available for immediate, free download.

GvSIG is an open source Geographic Information System (GIS) sponsored by
the regional government of Valencia/Spain.

The OA Digital Edition provides improved performance, default
extensions, sample data and additional documentation along with
a much simplified installation procedure.

Versions for Windows and Linux operating systems are available from
our web pages:

http://oadigital.net

Please read the additional information we posted there to understand
the current capabilities and limitations of the software.

Feel free to forward this message to anyone who might be interested
in this free software.

Best regards,

Benjamin

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[VAST2008] 4th Call for Participation - Registration deadlines!

2008-09-29T02:35:25Z

Subject: [VAST2008] 4th Call for Participation - Registration deadlines!

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Integrated Technological Practices for Human Heritage and Cultural Memory

Dear Colleague,

The VAST2008 Program Committee welcomes and encourages your participation on
this event, and wishes to update you on the following topics regarding the
up-coming Symposium and EUROGRAPHICS Workshop, in Braga-Portugal, 2-5
December 2008:

1. The **early** registration deadline was extended until the 13th
October; note the costs will considerably increase after this date.
2. A preliminary program is already available, and the list of accepted
papers will be advertised.
3. Tuesday is reserved for Workshops, and some of the proposed ones may
be atractive for researchers and professionals.
3. The Multicert company offers the DVD on Coa Valley (mentioned on the
website) to all VAST delegates (including students).
4. Special deals were negociated with hotels, and several rooms are
already reserved for VAST 2008; please book accommodation at the same time
you register to guarantee a room.
5. Travel arrangements: please book your flight to Oporto airport (40Km
away) as soon as possible to get a cheap deal; from the airport to Braga
city centre just get the Metro to Campanha railway station and then the
suburban train to Braga (overall fare less than 5 euros).

____________________________________________________________________________

Please take a look into the VAST2008 website (www.vast2008.org) for more
details.
If you browse this website, you will notice that:

- it is being updated very frequently, and you can register for RSS
feeds;
- you can not miss the field trip/excursion to Coa Valley (250km from
Braga) at the end of the Symposium: it is a unique opportunity to visit a
one of a kind place in the world.

____________________________________________________________________________

Hoping to see you all in Braga

Alberto Proenca
On behalf of the Program Committee
Chair of the Organizing Committee

Dep. Informatica, Univ. Minho
Braga, Portugal
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Computational Intelligence in Archaeology

2008-09-25T03:00:41Z

Introducing the latest release from IGI Global:

Computational Intelligence in Archaeology

ISBN: 978-1-59904-489-7; 436; July 2008

Published under the imprint Information Science Reference (formerly Idea Group Reference)

http://www.igi-global.com/reference/details.asp?id=7791

Authored by: Juan A. Barcelo, Universidad Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain

Computational Intelligence in Archaeology provides analytical theories offered by new and innovative artificial intelligence computing methods in the archaeological domain. This stimulating, must-have title is full of archaeological examples that allow academicians, researchers, and students to understand a complex but very useful data analysis technique to the field of archaeology.

"This book investigates what it means to solve 'automatically' archaeological problems."

- Juan A. Barcelo, Universidad Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain

DESCRIPTION

Is it possible to build a machine to do archaeology? Will this machine be capable of acting like a scientist? Will this machine be capable of understanding how humans act, or how humans think they acted in the Past? This book tries to offer some possible solutions to these questions and to investigate what does it means to solve "automatically" archaeological problems.

The so called "intelligent" machines incite instinctive fear and anger by resembling ancestral threats -a rival for our social position as more or less respected specialists. But robots are here, around us. So, why to have fear of a machine classifying a prehistoric tool and deciding "intelligently" its origin, function and/or chronology? In other scientific domains the performance of humans at a particular task has been used to design intelligent computer programs that can do the same task in the same manner (and as well). Consequently, the design of an automated archaeologist should not be considered a mere science fiction tale. It is a technological reality.

I have tried to create an analogy with an "intelligent" machine, to understand the way we, archaeologists, think. If a computer can be programmed to perform human-like tasks it will offer a "model" of the human activity that is less open to argument than the empirical explanations that are normal in philosophical debates.

The book introduces the reader to the fascinating world of Artificial Intelligence theory, techniques and technology, and how a new archaeology will be possible if we arrive to integrate the very best from "natural" intelligence and from "artificial" processing.

TOPICS COVERED: Archaeology, Artificial intelligence, Automated archaeology, Historical sciences , GIS, Remote Sensing, Classification, Typologies, Seriation, Burial Analysis, Neurocomputing , Shape analysis , Visual and non-visual analysis , Compositional analysis, Spatiotemporal analysis , Neuroclassification , Remote sensing data, Spatial interpolation , Self-organized maps, Genetic algorithms , Inverse reasoning

For more information about Computational Intelligence in Archaeology, you can read more details in:

http://antalya.uab.cat/prehistoria/Barcelo/IGIBook.html

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Dr. Joan Antón Barceló i Àlvarez is Reader in the Department of Prehistory, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (Catalonia. Spain), where he teaches undergraduate and graduate courses on archaeological theory and methods. He is currently Head of the Laboratory for Quantitative Archaeology and Computer Applications, providing curricular support and technology training for faculty, staff, and students. In addition to his research in the applications of classical statistical tools, and the development of new methodologies from geostatistics, artificial intelligence and virtual reality, he has worked extensively on historical and archaeological investigations about social dynamics in Bronze Age times, Phoenician colonization in the Mediterranean, the origins of agriculture and social complexity in the Near East, and economic resource management and social organization in hunter-gatherer societies in the southernmost parts of America: Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego. He is now investigating long-term dynamics of Patagonian hunter-gatherer societies, with funding from the Spanish Ministry for Education and Research. He has authored a previous book on artificial intelligence applications in archaeology (in Spanish), and another book on statistical methods. He has also edited books on computer applications in archaeology and about virtual reality technologies. He is the author or co-author of more than 100 papers and publications. Eimail: juanantonio.barcelo@...

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To view the full contents of this publication, check for Computational Intelligence in Archaeology in your institution's library. If you library does not currently own this title, please recommend it to your librarian.

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Re: Interested in open science?

2008-09-08T05:37:05Z

Surely open is a founding principle of science? IP issues aside, a scientific "discovery" must be founded on reproducible experiments and the results of the experiments so far carried in out in testing the theory. Always been the weak point in archaeology's science armour, reproducibility. And come to think of it, providing the raw results of the work already done is not so popular either :)

Chris

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> I'm forwarding this because it may be relevant for the many of those
> who
> are involved in Open Access for Archaeology.
>
> ------
>
> from the Science Commons Blog [1]:
>
> Interested in open science?
>
> If so, there’s a new discussion list [2] you may want to join,
> brought to you by the good folks at the Open Knowledge
> Foundation.
>
> Writes OKF’s Jonathan Gray:
>
> As far as we could tell, there wasn’t a general
> mailing
> list for people interested in open science. Hence the
> new list aims to cover this gap, and to strengthen and
> consolidate the open science community.
>
> We hope it will be a relatively low volume list for
> relevant announcements, questions and notes. We also
> hope to get as full as possible representation from
> the
> open science community — so please forward this to
> anyone you think might be interested to join!
>
> [1]
> http://sciencecommons.org/weblog/archives/2008/09/05/interested-in-open-science/
>
> [2] http://lists.okfn.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/open-science
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Interested in open science?

2008-09-08T05:33:05Z

I'm forwarding this because it may be relevant for the many of those who
are involved in Open Access for Archaeology.

------

from the Science Commons Blog [1]:

Interested in open science?

If so, there’s a new discussion list [2] you may want to join,
brought to you by the good folks at the Open Knowledge
Foundation.

Writes OKF’s Jonathan Gray:

As far as we could tell, there wasn’t a general mailing
list for people interested in open science. Hence the
new list aims to cover this gap, and to strengthen and
consolidate the open science community.

We hope it will be a relatively low volume list for
relevant announcements, questions and notes. We also
hope to get as full as possible representation from the
open science community — so please forward this to
anyone you think might be interested to join!

[1]
http://sciencecommons.org/weblog/archives/2008/09/05/interested-in-open-science/

[2] http://lists.okfn.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/open-science

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Quantitative Archaeology Wiki: new Translation feature

2008-09-08T05:18:14Z

Hi all,
last week I took some time to add a new feature to the Quantitative
Archaeology Wiki, namely the Translation plugin. This allows for easy
translation of the existing content while preserving the existing page
names and structure. Just use the translation toolbar at top-right on
each page, following the guidelines at
http://wiki.iosa.it/wiki:translation

For now I have added the following languages: German (de), Spanish (es),
French (fr) and Italian (it). If you think you need more languages, just
let me know.

I know there aren't many contributions to the wiki but the number of
readers is always increasing so maybe translating some of the pages
could be useful for making content more available.

Best regards,

Stefano

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2008-08-22T00:39:55Z

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13th International Congress "Cultural Heritage and New Technologies"
(Workshop 13 "Archäologie und Computer")
November 03rd- 05th, 2008

City Hall of Vienna, Austria- Wappensaalgruppe

http://www.stadtarchaeologie.at/
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Dear Colleagues!

The Stadtarchäologie Wien are pleased to announce the schedule
(http://www.stadtarchaeologie.at/tagung/monday.htm) of the

13. International Congress "Cultural Heritage and New Technologies"
to be held 3rd-5th November, 2008

in the City Hall of Vienna, Austria

BASICS - GRUNDLAGEN

If you are not registered up to now, so you have the posibiltiy to do it online
or send us your data via fax.
(http://www.stadtarchaeologie.at/tagung/einfo.htm).

Since some days you have also the possibilty to book your hotel-room online
(http://www.pegasus.at/archaeologie2008.html).

If you have further questions, please do not hesitate to contact us.

Best regards and see you in Vienna
Wolfgang Börner

Museen der Stadt Wien - Stadtarchäologie
Mag. Wolfgang Börner
Obere Augartenstraße 26-28, Zi. 2.11
A - 1020 Wien
Tel.: +43 (0)1 4000 81176
Fax: +43 (0)1 4000 99 84747
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13th International Congress "Cultural Heritage and New Technologies"
(Workshop 13 Archäologie und Computer)
November 03rd 05th, 2008

City Hall of Vienna, Austria Wappensaalgruppe

http://www.stadtarchaeologie.at/

Dear Colleagues!

The Stadtarchäologie Wien are pleased to announce the schedule (http://www.stadtarchaeologie.at/tagung/monday.htm) of the

13. International Congress "Cultural Heritage and New Technologies"
to be held 3rd-5th November, 2008

in the City Hall of Vienna, Austria

BASICS - GRUNDLAGEN

If you are not registered up to now, so you have the posibiltiy to do it online or send us your data via fax. (http://www.stadtarchaeologie.at/tagung/einfo.htm).

Since some days you have also the possibilty to book your hotel-room online (http://www.pegasus.at/archaeologie2008.html).

If you have further questions, please do not hesitate to contact us.

Best regards and see you in Vienna

Wolfgang Börner

Museen der Stadt Wien - Stadtarchäologie
Mag. Wolfgang Börner
Obere Augartenstraße 26-28, Zi. 2.11
A - 1020 Wien
Tel.: +43 (0)1 4000 81176
Fax: +43 (0)1 4000 99 84747
wolfgang.boerner@...
http://www.magwien.gv.at/archaeologie
http://www.stadtarchaeologie.at

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Call for Participation and News Update: VAST 2008, Braga Portugal December 2-5

2008-06-12T03:15:34Z

The international support committees for VAST 2008 are working hard to make the 9th annual event and scientific program your first priority. We welcome your contributions and participation in what is shaping up to be a remarkable week in Braga this December.

Please visit the website (www.vast2008.org) and find attached a PDF file with more detailed information.

Deadline for submission of paper abstracts is July 7th.

News:

VAST2008.org website is launched. The website will continue to unfold and is being updated constantly. Visit it often for the latest news on speakers, paper and workshop submissions, sponsorship and excursions.

Invited Speakers: we are pleased to announce keynote speakers Roberto Scopigno and Ruth Tringham, leaders in computer technologies and archaeology. Please read their bios on the VAST 2008 site.

Submission system online: through cooperation with Eurographics, the 2008 submission system is online and OPEN. Please submit your abstracts as soon as possible to help us shape the scientific program. (http://www.vast2008.org/psub.php).

Scientific Committee: the VAST 2008 Scientific Committee is comprised of a diversified, international group of specialists, researchers and leaders. We will soon announce the committee on the symposium website.

Registration fees: besides the usual promotions for Eurographics and EPOCH members, those that will help us to better plan the event will have a reduced fee ("Early Registration"), and a special "All-in-One" pass is also offered. See the details on the website.

2nd Call for Papers

We are at a unique point in history, where cultural heritage professionals must work to care for the physical past while assuring that there will be a digital record for the future.

The challenge we propose is to bring to bear the knowledge and expertise of the VAST network of researchers and professionals that will lead to sustainable practices of stewardship for the long term, for tangible, intangible and virtual heritage alike.

We see this symposium as a dialogue on the present and future of archaeology in the 21st century. The sessions, papers, tutorials and workshops will explore the wealth of opinions and expertise on this vast topic, ranging from nuts-and-bolts practical information on geographical information systems to producing non-linear narratives and multi-vocal visualizations of the past.

We are seeking contributions that advance the state of the art in the technologies available to support sustainability of human heritage.

The following topics are particularly encouraged:

· 2/3/4D Data Capture and Processing in CH

· Augmentation of physical collections with digital presentations

· Data Acquisition Technologies

· Digital capture & annotation of intangible heritage (performance, audio, dance, oral)

· Interactive Environments and Applications for CH

· Long term preservation of digital artefacts

· Metadata, classification schema, ontologies and semantic processing

· Multilingual applications, tools and systems for CH

· Multimedia Data Acquisition, Management and Archiving

· On-site and remotely sensed data collection

· Professional and Ethical Guidelines

· Standards and Documentation

· Storytelling and Design of Heritage Communications

· Tools for Education and Training in CH

· Usability, Effectiveness and Interface Design for CH Applications

· Visualization

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Digital Heritage in the new knowledge environment: shared spaces & open paths to cultural content

2008-05-23T09:22:36Z

(via Ancient World Bloggers)

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
OF THE
HELLENIC MINISTRY OF CULTURE

1ST Announcement – Call for Papers/Participation

The Directorate of the National Archive of Monuments of the Hellenic Ministry of
Culture is organizing a three-day Conference on

“Digital Heritage in the new knowledge environment:
shared spaces & open paths to cultural content”.

The Conference, which is going to be held in the end of October 2008, intends to
promote a dialogue on current issues and concerns raised regarding the new
knowledge environment, as this is formed by the use of new media for heritage
management and dissemination.

The discussion will grow around five sessions addressing

a) Case studies of new technologies applied in Archaeology and Heritage
Management,
b) Activity towards the formation of a common language to ensure
compatibility and interoperability of applications and systems,
c) The use of Web 2.0 as part of the new knowledge environment,
d) Free, open and public access to heritage content
e) Theoretical approaches to cultural heritage and digital culture.

As part of the above sessions, keynote talks have been invited and will be
presented by notable researchers and specialists, including:

Dr Adam-Veleni, Director, Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki
Dr Dallas C., Assistant Professor, Panteion University
Dr Constantios D., Director, Byzantine & Christian Museum
Dr Constantopoulos P, Professor, Athens University of Economics & Business
Dr Cotsakis C, Professor, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Dr Tourta A., Director, Byzantine Museum of Thessaloniki
Farmakis G., Chief Executive Officer, Agilis S.A.
Dr Ashley M., Executive Director, OKAPI, Multimedia Authoring Center for Teaching
in Anthropology, UC Berkeley
Dr Brogan T., Director, Institute for Aegean Prehistory Study Centre for East
Crete (INSTAP)
Dr Doerr M., Institute of Computer Science, Foundation for Research & Technology
Mr Ducke B., Senior Applications Support and Development Officer, Oxford
Archaeology
Dr Elliott T., Associate Director for Digital Programs, Institute for the Study of
the Ancient World, New York University
Mr Eve S., Director, L-P Archaeology
Mr Isaksen L., Doctoral Student at School of Electronics and Computer Science,
University of Southampton, Ántiquist Community Moderator, formerly Senior IT
Development Officer at Oxford Archaeology
Dr Kansa E., Executive Director, Information and Service Design (ISD), School of
Information, UC Berkeley
Mr Poole Í., Chief Executive, MDA (Europe)

For further information on the Conference and the thematic sessions please see the
attached file.

We invite all interested to participate with a 15-minute original presentation in
Greek or English to send the title and a 350-word abstract of their talk until 9th
June 2008, including the title of the thematic session under which they wish to be
considered. The selection of papers will be based on the extent of the abstract,
the abstract consistency with the conference theme, and the post date. The
conference presentations will be published in a volume by the Hellenic Ministry of
Culture. Please send abstracts to Ms Kappa by email to evkappa@..., by post
to the Directorate of the National Archive of Monuments offices, Ag. Asomaton 11,
Athens, GR-105 53, Hellas, by fax to +30 210 322 5628. Participants will be
notified by 30th June 2008.

The exact conference dates, as well as a preliminary programme will be announced
in July 2008.

We are looking forward to hearing from you, and please do not hesitate to contact
us for any further enquiries.

Metaxia Tsipopoulou, Ph.D.
Director
Hellenic Ministry of Culture
National Archive of Monuments

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Re: Total Open Station

2008-05-20T09:47:10Z

Il giorno mar, 20/05/2008 alle 17.28 +0100, Joseph Reeves ha scritto:
> Gratuitous blog spamming aside, Luca Bianconi has just helped me get
> Total Open Station on the Openmoko platform:
>
> http://blogs.thehumanjourney.net/finds/entry/2
>
> "The FreeRunner has a USB host port; you simply plug your phone into
> the Total Station, download the data and send it over the mobile
> network to our survey database in the office.

Joseph,
that's really good news. When I first thought about a cross-platform
application I didn't think about _so_ many platforms ;-)

Now my question is: what is your Total Station model? Can you provide
sample data so we can write a parser module for it?

Thanks,
Steko

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Re: Total Open Station

2008-05-20T09:28:08Z

Gratuitous blog spamming aside, Luca Bianconi has just helped me get
Total Open Station on the Openmoko platform:

http://blogs.thehumanjourney.net/finds/entry/2

"The FreeRunner has a USB host port; you simply plug your phone into
the Total Station, download the data and send it over the mobile
network to our survey database in the office. No computers, no messing
about, just data from the field to the office ASAP. We don't have to
worry about laptops and the like; everyone will have the tools
necessary to get the job done."

Thanks to all involved for a really exciting piece of software, my
mind's racing about the future possibilities of it.

Joseph

On 18/03/2008, Luca Bezzi <luca.bezzi@...> wrote:

> Hi Stefano,
>
> I think this project is really interesting.
>
> If you want we can help testing it with our two total station (Geodimeter
> 500 and Foucs 10), but i think i can try it also with the total station of
> the university of Innsbruck, Pisa and Padua, when i work for them (but
> before i have to ask). When the software is ready and working we can insert
> it in ArcheOS (if you agree). We released the second version (based on
> Ubuntu), but we are tensting a lot of new software we would like to insert
> in a new version that maybe we will release during the workshop of Padua.
>
> Nice greetings,
>
> Luca Bezzi
>
> Arc-Team
> Archaeology & Free Software
> http://www.arc-team.com/
> luca.bezzi@...
>
>
> On Fre Mar 14 18:20 , Stefano Costa sent:
>
> Dear all,
> this e-mail is to inform you about a new software project that I started
> writing recently. The project is called Total Open Station. From the
> README:
>
> """
> I started writing this program for making it easier to manage different
> models of total stations in a GNU/Linux environment. However, I try to
> develop following standards, so porting to Windows or Mac shouldn't be
> difficult.
>
> Every model has its own quirks. So, I decided to use a modular
> structure, that is based on an abstract interface. Each time a new model
> is added to the program, you create a new instance of this base class,
> with all needed data.
> """
>
> Total Open Station is developed with the Python programming language.
> For those who are interested in participating the project website is at
>
> http://sharesource.org/project/totalopenstation/
>
> The (few lines of) code that I have written as of today are here in a
> Mercurial repository:
>
> http://hg.sharesource.org/totalopenstation/
>
> Let me know if you want to help - even a test with your total station is
> welcome!
>
> Best regards,
> Stefano
>
> --
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> http://www.iosa.it Archeologia e Software Libero
> Io uso Debian GNU/Linux!
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Re: Analysing spatial point patterns in R

2008-04-14T06:26:07Z

Dear all,

When I use the function envelope, there are some errors as following, why? And how to deal with( My computer memory is 512M)?
Thank you very much.

???<- envelope(???,pcf,i=???,j=???)
Error: cannot allocate vector of size 5.3 Mb
In addition: Warning messages:
1: In vector("double", length) :
Reached total allocation of 502Mb: see help(memory.size)
2: In vector("double", length) :
Reached total allocation of 502Mb: see help(memory.size)
3: In vector("double", length) :
Reached total allocation of 502Mb: see help(memory.size)
4: In vector("double", length) :
Reached total allocation of 502Mb: see help(memory.size)

Stefano Costa wrote:

Dear all,
I'm sorry for the silence of the mailing list in the last months.
However, feel free to use this mailing list to exchange information as
you like. Our topic is rather comprehensive.

I'd like to forward this to the list:

>
> A full set of course notes on
> 'Analysing spatial point patterns in R'
> is now available at
> <http://www.csiro.au/resources/pf16h.html>
>
> The course is based on the package 'spatstat'. It includes a brief
> introduction to R, a detailed introduction to the 'spatstat' package,
> and
> a discussion of statistical methodology.
>
> Adrian Baddeley

It's very detailed and has good examples.

Best regards,
Stefano

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Re: Total Open Station

2008-03-18T03:01:02Z

Hi Stefano,

I think this project is really interesting.

If you want we can help testing it with our two total station (Geodimeter 500 and Foucs 10), but i think i can try it also with the total station of the university of Innsbruck, Pisa and Padua, when i work for them (but before i have to ask). When the software is ready and working we can insert it in ArcheOS (if you agree). We released the second version (based on Ubuntu), but we are tensting a lot of new software we would like to insert in a new version that maybe we will release during the workshop of Padua.

Nice greetings,

Luca Bezzi

Arc-Team
Archaeology & Free Software
http://www.arc-team.com/
luca.bezzi@...

On Fre Mar 14 18:20 , Stefano Costa sent:

Dear all,
this e-mail is to inform you about a new software project that I started
writing recently. The project is called Total Open Station. From the
README:

"""
I started writing this program for making it easier to manage different
models of total stations in a GNU/Linux environment. However, I try to
develop following standards, so porting to Windows or Mac shouldn't be
difficult.

Every model has its own quirks. So, I decided to use a modular
structure, that is based on an abstract interface. Each time a new model
is added to the program, you create a new instance of this base class,
with all needed data.
"""

Total Open Station is developed with the Python programming language.
For those who are interested in participating the project website is at

http://sharesource.org/project/totalopenstation/

The (few lines of) code that I have written as of today are here in a
Mercurial repository:

http://hg.sharesource.org/totalopenstation/

Let me know if you want to help - even a test with your total station is
welcome!

Best regards,
Stefano

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Re: Total Open Station

2008-03-17T05:46:56Z

I'd have to ask on features (unless another OA staffer is on the list and has ideas?) as its not my area - although file compatibility with DWG using the (closed but free to use) Open Design Alliance libraries would be a nice option.

I can mentor on the general project/problem solving side and could get a more specialist member of staff (Ben Ducke) to mentor too.

On how many models of Total Station, again I'd have to ask for details, but definitely several different ones in the various offices.

Chris

----- "Stefano Costa" <steko@...> wrote:

> On ven, 2008-03-14 at 17:57 +0000, Chris Puttick wrote:
> > We're interested...
> >
> > Don't suppose you want to add it to the Open Archaeology Launchpad
> > site? You can put a sub-project of it forward as a Google Summer of
> > Code idea then!
>
> Hi Chris,
> it would be nice to have this project included in Summer of Code:
>
> https://answers.launchpad.net/openarchaeologygsoc/+question/27275
>
> Are you willing/available for mentoring? And, most important: how
> many
> different models of total station can you provide? :-)
>
> For now I have no projects for a GUI and I'll focus on:
> 1. serial connection parameters and communication
> 2. different data formats and data retrieval
>
> It's going to be modular enough to allow different kinds of output:
> DXF,
> GML, KML, GeoJSON... which other features would be a must for you?
>
> Best,
> Stefano
>
> --
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> http://www.iosa.it Archeologia e Software Libero
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>
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Re: Total Open Station

2008-03-17T04:38:16Z

On ven, 2008-03-14 at 17:57 +0000, Chris Puttick wrote:
> We're interested...
>
> Don't suppose you want to add it to the Open Archaeology Launchpad
> site? You can put a sub-project of it forward as a Google Summer of
> Code idea then!

Hi Chris,
it would be nice to have this project included in Summer of Code:

https://answers.launchpad.net/openarchaeologygsoc/+question/27275

Are you willing/available for mentoring? And, most important: how many
different models of total station can you provide? :-)

For now I have no projects for a GUI and I'll focus on:
1. serial connection parameters and communication
2. different data formats and data retrieval

It's going to be modular enough to allow different kinds of output: DXF,
GML, KML, GeoJSON... which other features would be a must for you?

Best,
Stefano

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