Online-Internships: Digital Field Survey Archaeology

Archeologia e Calcolatori, 35.2., 2024

Archeologia e Calcolatori, 35.2, 2024

Journal of Archaeological Research, 2018

The full release and circulation of excavation results often takes decades, thus slowing down progress in archaeology to a degree not in keeping with other scientific fields. The nonconformity of released data for digital processing also requires vast and costly data input and adaptation. Archaeology should face the cognitive challenges posed by digital environments, changing in scope and rhythm. We advocate the adoption of a synergy between recording techniques, field analytics, and a collaborative approach to create a new epistemological perspective, one in which research questions are constantly redefined through real-time, collaborative analysis of data as they are collected and/or searched for in an excavation. Since new questions are defined in science discourse after previous results have been disseminated and discussed within the scientific community, sharing evidence in remote with colleagues, both in the process of field collection and subsequent study, will be a key innovative feature, allowing a complex and real-time distant interaction with the scholarly community and leading to more rapid improvements in research agendas and queries.

2016

This volume stems from the workshop, "Mobilizing the Past for a Digital Future: the Future of Digital Archaeology," funded by a National Endowment for the Humanities Digital Humanities Start-Up grant (#HD-51851-14), which took place 27-28 February 2015 at Wentworth Institute of Technology in Boston (http://uwm.edu/mobilizing-the-past/). The workshop, organized by this volume's editors, was largely spurred by our own attempts with developing a digital archaeological workflow using mobile tablet computers on the Athienou Archaeological Project (http://aap.toumazou.org; Gordon et al., Ch. 1.4) and our concern for what the future of a mobile and digital archaeology might be. Our initial experiments were exciting, challenging, and rewarding; yet, we were also frustrated by the lack of intra-disciplinary discourse between projects utilizing digital approaches to facilitate archaeological data recording and processing. Based on our experiences, we decided to initiate a dialogue that could inform our own work and be of use to other projects struggling with similar challenges. Hence, the "Mobilizing the Past" workshop concept was born and a range of digital archaeologists, working in private and academic settings in both Old World and New World archaeology, were invited to participate. In addition, a livestream of the workshop allowed the active participation on Twitter from over 21 countires, including 31 US states (@MobileArc15, #MobileArc). 1 * * * No multifaceted academic endeavor like Mobilizing the Past can be realized without the support of a range of institutions and individ

Internet Archaeology, 2015

Over the past 3 years, with the establishment of the new Center of Interdisciplinary Science for Art, Architecture and Archaeology (CISA3) at UCSD’s California Institute of Telecommunication and Information Technology (Calit2), a collaboratory framework has been established facilitating joint research between archaeologists, computer scientists and engineers. We report here on a cyberarchaeology field recording system that feeds into a cyberinfrastructure delivered over the Mediterranean Archaeology Network (MedArchNet) on a Google Earth platform. A field test of the new system was carried out in 2009 at Khirbat en-Nahas (KEN), an Iron Age (ca. 1200 – 900 BCE) copper production center in Jordan.

ISPRS Annals of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, 2015

During archaeological field work a huge amount of data is collected, processed and elaborated for further studies and scientific publications. However, access and communication of linked data; associated tools for interrogation, analysis and sharing are often limited at the first stage of the archaeological research, mainly due to issues related to IPR. Information is often released months if not years after the fieldwork. Nowadays great deal of archaeological data is 'born digital' in the field or lab. This means databases, pictures and 3D models of finds and excavation contexts could be available for public communication and sharing. Researchers usually restrict access to their data to a small group of people. It follows that data sharing is not so widespread among archaeologists, and dissemination of research is still mostly based on traditional pre-digital means like scientific papers, journal articles and books. This project has implemented a web approach for sharing and communication purposes, exploiting mainly open source technologies which allow a high level of interactivity. The case study presented is the newly Mithraeum excavated in Ostia Antica archaeological site in the framework of the Ostia Marina Project.

1997

EARP (European Archaeological Researches Project) is a fieldwork opportunities database on the Internet. It is part of the European Project ARCHEONET ARCHAEOLOGY TOWARDS THE THIRD MILLENNIUM, one of the key Socrates SIGMA projects, in close collaboration with the European Association of Archaeologists and headed by the University of Bristol. One of the major task of the Archeonet project is to help and increase reciprocal field training. EARP major aim is to link together European students with Universities and Institutions promoting archaeological researches in Europe. In this way EARP will facilitate student mobility and promote educational training and archaeological information exchanges in Europe. This database is an Object Oriented Relational Data Base, and its technology handles not only alphanumerical but even complex data as images, sounds, videos etc. The authors of this project are the Istituto di Archeologia Universita' degli Studi di Milano and the CILEA (Consorzio ...

Dialogues in Cultural heritage, 2018

This paper describes the social media strategy developed within VEiL project, a landscape archaeology project based in Aquileia (UD, Italy), in order to gain public attention on the -generally scarcely debated- topic of cultural landscapes. VEiL represents a unique instance of an archaeological fieldwalking survey project making a wide and structured use of Social Media to gain public engagement in landscape studies. The adopted strategy, which entails the use of multiple Social Media (namely Twitter, Instagram and Facebook), envisages contents customized for specific Social Media communities, encompassing topics that represent the whole variety of archaeological research.