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VIRTUAL RECONSTRUCTION OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL ELEMENTS

In Archeofoss 2020, Emanuel Demetrescu and Bruno Fanini gave a talk on the Extended Matrix methodology, an open source software 3d tools to transform archaeological record into a virtual reconstruction (abstract in https://zenodo.org/record/4002961#.YHgzlOgzaUk).

In recent years, the interest of scientific community in virtual reconstructive hypotheses has grown. Demetrescu and Fanini presented the EMtools and EMviq, which can help us to go back in time and “visit” the places we came from, going back to the past like in a real time machine.

A central aspect in the development of scientifically correct virtual reconstructive hypotheses is the possibility to manage complex cross-references of data and publish, not only the visual result of the reconstruction, but also all the data used to obtain it and, in particular, the sources, reasoning and interpretations.

The proposed innovative tools are based on the Extended Matrix (EMtools - https://github.com/zalmoxes-laran/EM-blender-tools). These tools allow transforming the stratigraphic archaeological record into formalized reconstructive hypotheses that tell us how a context must have appeared at a given time in the past. Then, using the 3D Extended Matrix Visual Inspector and Querier (EMviq - https://github.com/phoenixbf/emviq) this information can be seen in a scientifically correct virtual reconstructive scenario.

It is possible to review this presentation on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPt3XURTP0g or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgkLcKsKtOA

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ARCA: PUBLISH ARCHAEOLOGICAL DATA

In Archeofoss 2020, Irene Carpanese presented A.R.C.A. (Archiviazione, Ricerca e Comunicazione del dato in Archeologia), an open-source software capable of publishing archaeological data on-line (abstract in https://zenodo.org/record/4002961#.YHgzlOgzaUk).

The goal of the software is to manage, in a simple way, archaeological data of different nature (textual to spatial or even 3D data), making them “scalable”: easily reusable independently of other projects and different institutions. The idea is to create a product that encourages the data holder/owner to make their information open and available.

The software was developed without a typical relational DB, in order to build a flexible and adaptive product able to communicate with different datasets and capable of interconnecting various data collected in multiple projects.

This project laid the cornerstone to develop A.R.C.A. itself. The software has big potential, but its growth depends on its use by the archaeological community, which can increase the quality and remove limits.

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IRISH OGHAM STONES AS LOD

In Archeofoss 2020, Sophie C. Schmidt and Florian Thiery presented a project on digitization and provision of Irish monoliths inscribed with Ogham script in Wikidata as Linked Open Data (LOD) (abstract in https://zenodo.org/record/4002961#.YHgzlOgzaUk).

The standard work on Ogham inscriptions is the volume of the Corpus Inscriptionum Insularum Celticarum, which describes two different types of words: formula words and nomenclature words. The combinations of these two types leads to inscriptions that feature kinship or tribal relations. This information occurs as a linked-graph-network.

The goal of the working group ‘Research Squirrel Engineers’ (http://squirrel.link) is to create a workflow for digitizing the analogue data and publish the stones as LOD, reproduction of analyses based on the analog CIIC catalog and enhance the database with Linked Open Data available online.

The aim is to discuss the pros and cons, as well as the challenges of the strategies. This includes the major challenge and possibility of citizen science vs. data sovereignty.

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FROM THE LEGACY DATA DIGITIZATION TO THE SEMANTIC WEB  

Nicola Laneri, Rodolfo Brancato, Salvatore Cristofaro, Marianna Figuera, Marianna Nicolosi Asmundo, Daniele Francesco Santamaria and Daria Spampinato presented a work in Archeofoss 2020 on data management of museum collections using the specific case-study of the Libertini Collection kept at the Museum of Archaeology of the University of Catania (abstract in https://zenodo.org/record/4002961#.YHgzlOgzaUk).