Articles by Milena Stacca
Open Data in archeologia: una questione giuridica o culturale
Mirella Serlorenzi, Ilaria Jovine, Valeria Boi, Milena Stacca
Abstract
Archaeological research responds to the ultimate purpose of increasing common knowledge, the conservation and dissemination of which are entrusted to the State on behalf of the citizens. Following this basic principle, which is not only legal but first and foremost cultural, the SITAR, a project designed and managed by the archaeological Superintendency of Rome, is dealing with the issue of making archaeological data accessible to the public. The office’s archives represent a major repository of archaeological field reports, often unpublished. To date, SITAR has made archaeological data freely accessible online, through the publication of summary sheets of information extracted from field reports, previously validated by State Officials. Up to now the documents have been accessible only to registered users, but they are not published online because of privacy protection and authorship rights. The debate about the rights of publication of those documents is still open, so this persistent legal uncertainty prevents this great fund of knowledge from taking advantage of the digital revolution.
SITAR e open data: alcune riflessioni sulla messa in rete della banca dati
Ilaria Jovine, Valeria Boi, Milena Stacca
Abstract
At present, the law is improving in order to make possible to share the public sector information with civil society, creating an ever-increasing body of knowledge. Information is not only evidence of the work done by the administration, but also the chance for an economical rise. Moreover, data help to enhance the quantity and quality of available information, in virtue of derived data circulation. This is very important if it is applied to the informative heritage preserved in public archives, filled with unpublished scientific data. The Geographic Archaeological Information System of Rome (SITAR) is a project of the Ministero per i Beni e le Attività Culturali e il Turismo, which aims to open archaeological heritage data of the Roman urban area to the general public (http://sitar.archeoroma.beniculturali.it/). SITAR webGIS portal allows the online consultation of archaeological data: for every record in the database the topographic location is provided, together with a descriptive sheet containing administrative information (type of survey, commissioning body, executing company) and scientific ones (type/function, chronology, description, etc.). The information provided correspond to a minimum level of knowledge, which is adequate to allow an aware re-use of data for research, conservation and urban planning aims. Appropriate licenses would be provided, in order to make it possible to cite the name of the scientific director and of the field archaeologist, author of the archaeological report, allowing the preservation of the information about the provenance of scientific data.
Il Municipio XI (già XV) di Roma. Il SITAR a supporto della tutela del territorio
Laura Cianfriglia, Carmelina Ariosto, Milena Stacca, Petra Gringmuth
Abstract
This contribution provides an overview of the historical and topographical XI municipality Arvalia Portuense - that is part of the southwestern suburbs of Rome. The dynamics of exploitation of this area are conditioned by the presence of the Tiber river and of important roads such as the ancient Via Campana and Via Portuense. In this paper some sites are presented, which describe the complexity of settlement of the Portuense district, particularly between the archaic and the Republican era, through an analysis of the traces of infrastructures, land use and necropolis. Starting from some sites in which the presence of major emergencies makes the establishment of strategies for the protection of archaeological resources increasingly urgent, the SITAR office started the digitization and cataloguing of archaeological data and the webGIS platform was implemented with the new data. A tool like SITAR, which offers a detailed, easy to update picture of the territory, allows us to steer the archaeological record in the current topographical context and represents a valuable support, useful, on the one hand, to speed up the procedures of data-entry and, on the other to direct the planning of a continuously expanding urban area.
Archeologia e open data. Stato dell’arte e proposte sulla pubblicazione dei dati archeologici
Mirella Serlorenzi, Ilaria Jovine, Valeria Boi, Milena Stacca
Abstract
This article is based on the SITAR project experience, which was conducted by the Special Superintendency for Archaeology in Rome. In compliance with recent legislative developments about the open data of the Public Sector, the overall goal of the SITAR project is to propose a way to publish the archaeological data on the web, combining the protection of intellectual property rights and the necessity of sharing of information. Some archaeological data, indeed, must be considered as public data and must be shared with licenses that allow their use for research and learning, as well as the development of preventive archaeology. This paper presents a summary of the topics related to the dissemination of archaeological data, with special attention to unpublished data and to the rights related to their publication, in relation with both the protection of intellectual property rights of field archaeologists and scientific directors and the use of proper licenses.
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