I dati archeologici nella società dell’informazione

Publisher: UniorPress

Series: Miscellaneous

Pages: 226

Language: Italian

NBN: http://nbn.depositolegale.it/urn:nbn:it:unina-29177

Abstract: The study of the relationship between digital data and archaeological methodology is one of the main fields of interest of Digital Archaeology, a discipline that has recently emerged in parallel with the digital transformation of society. The introduction of digital tools and methods into the field of historical and archaeological research has changed scholars’ approach to reconstructing the ancient cultures. This volume aims to investigate the composition of the archaeologist's new toolbox, which has complemented the traditional trowel with sophisticated equipment producing high-quality digital data. The exponential growth of research-generated digital documents (text, images, audio, and video) requires the development of innovative procedures and strategies for preservation and, above all, for sharing archives. Semantic technologies make an important contribution in this direction, allowing textual, geographic, and geometric information to be standardized, thus making it accessible and reusable on the Web. Science claims, today, greater collaboration and interaction among researchers; the prospect of knowledge, data, and methods, freely available on the Web, becomes a concrete reality that crosses all disciplinary barriers. The book outlines the scenarios inaugurated by the principles of Open Science, introducing the reader to the latest challenges involving the field of archaeological sciences.