Articles by Alessandra Caravale
Landscaping and integrating Digital Archaeology and Digital Epigraphy resources: new challenges and future opportunities. Introduction to the Special section
Alessandra Caravale, Paola Moscati, Irene Rossi
Abstract
Introduction to Special section The H2IOSC project and its impact on digital antiquity within the E-RIHS infrastructure
«Archeologia e Calcolatori» 2024, 35.1, 515-520; doi: 10.19282/ac.35.1.2024.30
Advancements of the H2IOSC Project: enhancement of digital resources in the Cultural Heritage field targeting archaeology and epigraphy. Introduction to the Special section
Alessandra Caravale, Paola Moscati, Irene Rossi
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Introduction to section
«Archeologia e Calcolatori» 2024, 35.2, 463-470; doi: 10.19282/ac.35.2.2024.48
Recensione a F. Ciotti (ed.), Digital Humanities. Metodi, strumenti, saperi, Roma, Carocci Editore, 2023
«Archeologia e Calcolatori» 2023, 34.2, 357-360; doi: 10.19282/ac.34.2.2023.19
Developing a digital archaeology classification system using Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning techniques
Alessandra Caravale, Nicolau Duran-Silva, Berta Grimau, Paola Moscati, Bernardo Rondelli
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The Authors propose a knowledge map to analyse and access scientific contents related to Digital Archeology by leveraging various Machine Learning (ML) techniques. The case study concerns the articles published in our international journal «Archeologia e Calcolatori» in the decade from 2011 to 2020 and, as a benchmark, the publications in the ‘Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology’ (CAA) conference proceedings and journal. The titles and abstracts of the publications featured in these two data sets were analysed using a supervised classification approach into the subfields of computer science, based on the ACM’s taxonomy, and by applying topic modelling techniques to discover emergent topics, Named Entity Recognition to identify specific archaeologically relevant entities, and geotagging techniques to link articles with the geographical locations they discuss. The results achieved, although preliminary, provide some methodological suggestions: i) the opportunity to build custom analyses by taking advantage of the increasing availability of open data and metadata; ii) the scope of the contribution of archaeology, and in particular of computational archaeology, to the Heritage Science interdisciplinary domain; the heuristic and predictive role of different ML techniques to gain a multi-faceted access to data analysis and interpretation.
«Archeologia e Calcolatori» 2023, 34.2, 9-32; doi: 10.19282/ac.34.2.2023.01
Facebook e Twitter per «Archeologia e Calcolatori»
«Archeologia e Calcolatori» 2022, 33.2, 341-345; doi: 10.19282/ac.33.2.2022.19
Diritto d’autore, copyright e licenze Creative Commons
«Archeologia e Calcolatori» 2021, 32.1, 489-492; doi: 10.19282/ac.32.1.2021.27
Archaeological Computing and the MetroArchaeo International Conference Award: an introduction
Abstract
Introduction to the section ARCHAEOLOGICAL COMPUTING: SELECTED PAPERS FROM THE 2020 IMEKO TC-4 METROARCHAEO INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
«Archeologia e Calcolatori» 2021, 32.2, 155-156; doi: 10.19282/ac.32.2.2021.13
Introduction
Alessandra Caravale, Paola Moscati
«Archeologia e Calcolatori» 2020, 31.2, 119-120; doi: 10.19282/ac.31.2.2020.11
From databases to archaeological online resources. The logic of object classification
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Since the 1970s, the development of archaeological databases has characterised the history of archaeological computing. The paper presents a summary of the pivotal early projects, with a particular focus on Italy and France, up to the current projects shared online. They are constantly monitored by the international journal Archeologia e Calcolatori, that since 1990 is an observatory of theoretical and methodological aspects of computing and information technology applied to archaeology.
«Archeologia e Calcolatori» 2020, 31.2, 133-144; doi: 10.19282/ac.31.2.2020.13
Note e Recensioni
Alessandra Piergrossi, Alessandra Caravale, Virginie Fromageot-Laniepce
Abstract
Notes: "What is F.A.I.R.?", by A. Piergrossi (p. 253-257). Reviews: "Antonio Bertini, Immacolata Caruso, Gemma Teresa Colesanti, Tiziana Vitolo (eds.), Cultura in transito. Ricerca e tecnologie per il patrimonio culturale, Roma 2020, L’Erma di Bretschneider", by A. Caravale (p. 257-260); "Elisabeth Zadora-Rio, Henri Galinie (dir.), L’église de Rigny et ses abords. De la colonia de Saint-Martin de Tours au transfert du centre paroissial (600-1865), Caen 2020, Presses Universitaires de Caen, Édition numérique en libre accès (https://www.unicaen.fr/puc/rigny/)", by V. Fromageot-Laniepce (p. 260-262).
«Archeologia e Calcolatori» 2020, 31.1, 253-264; doi: 10.19282/ac.31.1.2020.12
Note e recensioni
Paola Moscati, Irene Rossi, Alessandra Caravale
«Archeologia e Calcolatori» 2019, 30, 523-528; doi: 10.19282/ac.30.2019.45
Archeologia e Calcolatori. Classificazione geografica e tematica per la condivisione della conoscenza
Francesca Cantone, Alessandra Caravale
Abstract
The 30th anniversary of Archeologia e Calcolatori has offered the chance to focus on its rich repository of scientific contents and to envisage further strategies to better classify the journals papers. Mapping web resources is crucial in organizing and managing cultural information in the Semantic Web and Internet of Things (IoT) perspective. In this context, the editorial board has decided to adopt geographical and chronological annotation strategies and to implement established gazetteers of geographical and historical entities. The first step in this annotation project was to experiment with the Recogito Pelagios tool, an international initiative aimed at facilitating better associations between online resources documenting the past. Furthermore, an analysis has been undertaken by means of Social Network Analysis techniques, which in the last years has been developed to cover a wide interdisciplinary field of study, including social and behavioral sciences, economics, psychology, anthropology. The paper illustrates the main results, to highlight connections between themes and technologies in the papers published over the last ten years.
«Archeologia e Calcolatori» 2019, 30, 93-107; doi: 10.19282/ac.30.2019.07
La banca dati bibliografica degli anni Novanta. Dati quantitativi e analisi statistiche
Alessandra Caravale, Letizia Ceccarelli
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Recent research work, carried out as part of the international project on 'The History of Archaeological Computing', jointly promoted by the Italian National Research Council and the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, has created the premises by which to publish online the database of the Bibliography of Archaeological Computing. The database was regularly implemented during the first ten years of publication of the international scholarly journal 'Archeologia e Calcolatori' (1990-1999), and covers a period ranging from 1989 to 2000. The dataset was revised and made available online in the 'Virtual Museum of Archaeological Computing', featuring more than 2,700 titles. Data structuring and updating led us to re-appreciate the analysis of the results, published for the first time in the tenth issue of the journal, by also linking the period under investigation with the achievements of the previous decades and anticipating the challenges of the years to come. This article sets out both the research work now being carried out to classify bibliographical information and the results obtained from the statistical analysis of the dataset.
«Archeologia e Calcolatori» 2019, 30, 109-122; doi: 10.19282/ac.30.2019.08
Il laboratorio di informatica per la Villa di Cottanello (RI): lo studio delle terrecotte architettoniche
Alessandra Caravale, Antonio D'Eredità, Carla Sfameni, Giorgio Trojsi
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Since 2012 the Istituto di Studi sul Mediterraneo Antico - CNR has been conducting an interdisciplinary research programme at the Roman villa of Cottanello (RI). The results of these investigations have been published in a recent work (Pensabene, Sfameni 2017). This paper presents some new studies on the villa, related, in particular, to the development of a website created with the CMS Museo and Web. The implementation of the website gave the opportunity to expand the research on the architectural terracottas, that represent one of the most important and conspicuous groups of ancient material found during the excavations. In particular, the article presents the online database of terracottas, their three-dimensional graphic reconstruction and some archaeometric analysis. The paper provides also an overview on other residential contexts, in which similar decorative terracottas were found.
«Archeologia e Calcolatori» 2019, 30, 159-182; doi: 10.19282/ac.30.2019.11
Introduzione
Marco Arizza, Valeria Boi, Alessandra Caravale, Augusto Palombini, Alessandra Piergrossi
Abstract
Introduction to the Conference Proceedings.
«Archeologia e Calcolatori» 2018, 29, 9-12; doi: 10.19282/ac.29.2018.01
Accessibilità e disseminazione dei dati nell’esperienza dell’ISMA
Marco Arizza, Alessandra Caravale, Alessandra Piergrossi
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The article describes research carried out by the Istituto di Studi sul MediterraneoAntico (ISMA). The CNR-ISMA is involved in many excavations for which permits are granted by the Archaeological Superintendency and in several open access publishing projects. In relation to these research projects, the article discusses the position of the researcher of a public institution regarding access and dissemination of data.
«Archeologia e Calcolatori» 2018, 29, 101-109; doi: 10.19282/ac.29.2018.12
Le risorse bibliografiche di archeologia in rete. Un panorama in evoluzione
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The article describes some bibliographic works carried out as part of the research line devoted to archaeological computing at the Istituto di Studi sul Mediterraneo Antico (ISMA), CNR. The work analyses, in particular, the rich bibliography on archaeological computing in the 1990s published on the website Virtual Museum of Archaeological Computing (http://archaeologicalcomputing.lincei.it/) and the digital bibliographies of Massimo Pallottino, Sabatino Moscati and Mauro Cristofani, some leading figures in our Institute’s history. Next, the text explores some examples of bibliographic resources available online (those relating to open texts and those relating to simple bibliographic references) and also describes some recently launched projects dedicated to virtual libraries and digital infrastructures in the field of human sciences.
«Archeologia e Calcolatori» 2017, 28.1, 257-270; doi: 10.19282/AC.28.1.2017.15
ARCHEOFOSS. Free, Libre and Open Source Software e Open Format nei processi di ricerca archeologica. Atti del IX Workshop (Verona, 19-20 giugno 2014)
I bronzi del Museo Claudio Faina di Orvieto: una banca dati
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A recent project related to the research line dedicated to Archaeology and Information Society of ISMA-CNR is the website Sethlans. Bronzi del Museo Faina (http://bronzifaina.isma.cnr.it/). This website, planned using the CMS open source Museo and Web (OTEBAC), is dedicated to the bronzes in the Claudio Faina Museum in Orvieto. The numerous bronze objects are catalogued in a database, complete with colour and black and white images and virtual links to other databases available in Internet. The paper also briefly describes other ISMA projects, like the one dedicated to the Virtual museum of archaeological computing.
Recensioni - Archeologia e Calcolatori XXVI
Salvatore Fiorino, Alessandra Caravale
«Archeologia e Calcolatori» 2015, 26, 341-349; doi: 10.19282/ac.26.2015.37
Archaeological computing and ISMA projects
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Paper presented at the Italic inscriptions and databases workshop.
«Archeologia e Calcolatori» 2015, 26, 17-18; doi: 10.19282/ac.26.2015.04
Recensioni - Archeologia e Calcolatori XXV
Alessandra Caravale, Alessandra Piergrossi, Claudio Barchesi
«Archeologia e Calcolatori» 2014, 25, 241-251; doi: 10.19282/ac.25.2014.13
Recensioni - Archeologia e Calcolatori XXIV
Ilaria Romeo, Alessandra Caravale
«Archeologia e Calcolatori» 2013, 24, 395-401; doi: 10.19282/ac.24.2013.22
Archeologia in rete. Le riviste open access: risorse e prospettive
Alessandra Caravale, Alessandra Piergrossi
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This article is intended to provide an overview of archaeological open access journals, with particular reference to Italy and a general survey of the situation in France and the Anglo-Saxon countries. The Internet is now established as an important tool for the dissemination of knowledge and exchange in research; all sectors are adapting to this new environment, including that of classical studies, which more than any other remains attached to traditional forms of knowledge transmission and publication. Alongside published journals, online open access journals (of which we describe some examples related to the above mentioned geographic areas) are increasing considerably, and are acquiring an important role for the publication of research studies. The article also provides a brief overview on open access features and creative commons licenses.
«Archeologia e Calcolatori» 2012, 23, 187-207; doi: 10.19282/ac.23.2012.11
Recensioni - Archeologia e Calcolatori XXIII
Alessandra Caravale, Alessandra Piergrossi
«Archeologia e Calcolatori» 2012, 23, 327-334; doi: 10.19282/ac.23.2012.20
Recensioni - Archeologia e Calcolatori XXII
Stephen Kay, Alessandra Caravale
«Archeologia e Calcolatori» 2011, 22, 447-456; doi: 10.19282/ac.22.2011.21
Recensioni - Archeologia e Calcolatori XXI
Alessandra Caravale, Alessandra Piergrossi, Andrea Polcaro
«Archeologia e Calcolatori» 2010, 21, 357-362; doi: 10.19282/ac.21.2010.21
La catalogazione informatica del patrimonio archeologico
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The article presents a brief description of the principal institutions which, during the 1970s and 1980s, were in charge of the computer cataloguing of their respective national cultural heritages, with specific emphasis on archaeological heritage. Particular attention is dedicated to the Italian experience, with some reference to the situation in England and in France during the same period. The 1970s and 1980s are, in fact, two particularly remarkable decades, in which centralised national projects followed the first isolated experimentations, and developed tools, such as lexicons and thesauri, as well as techniques for indexing and information retrieval. The article focuses in particular on the activity conducted in Italy by the Istituto Centrale per il Catalogo e la Documentazione (ICCD), as well as that of the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa. As far as England is concerned, the author describes the pioneer research work of the Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England (RCHME), founded in 1908, and, more recently, that of the Archaeology Data Service (ADS); for France, the author focuses on the work conducted since 1964 by the Inventaire général des monuments et richesses artistiques de la France.
«Archeologia e Calcolatori» 2009, 20, 179-187; doi: 10.19282/ac.20.2009.16
Recensioni - Archeologia e Calcolatori XX
Paola Moscati, Andrea Polcaro, Vito Francesco Polcaro, Alessandra Caravale
«Archeologia e Calcolatori» 2009, 20, 421-427; doi: 10.19282/ac.20.2009.29
Recensione a A. CORALINI, D. SCAGLIARINI CORLÀITA, Ut natura ars. Virtual Reality e archeologia. Atti della Giornata di Studi (Bologna 2002), Imola 2007, University Press Bologna
«Archeologia e Calcolatori» 2007, 18, 405-413; doi: 10.19282/ac.18.2007.23
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