Articles by Mirella Serlorenzi

2024 Open Access Article Download PDF BibTeX

Dati aperti in archeologia: una riflessione sullo stato dell’arte nell’ambito del Ministero della Cultura

Valeria Acconcia, Valeria Boi, Annalisa Falcone, Ilaria Di Cocco, Mirella Serlorenzi

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The National Geoportal for Archeology (GNA), started in 2017 by the Central Institute for Archeology (Istituto Centrale per l’Archeologia – ICA) of the Italian Ministry of Culture, has the primary goal of making data resulting from all archaeological investigations carried out on the national territory freely accessible online. The project is part of the activities carried out by the Institute regarding the register and digitalization of archaeological research data. Its primary function is the creation of a dynamic archaeological map, easily implementable over time, free to access and easy to consult, open to reuse and integration by all users. The data-entry according to the GNA standard is entrusted to the use of a pre-set GIS project (template) developed using the open source software QGIS. GNA also receives data from other projects designed or managed by the Superintendencies in some areas of Italy, with the aim of preserving good practices already tested locally.

«Archeologia e Calcolatori» 2024, 35.2, 29-38; doi: 10.19282/ac.35.2.2024.04

2024 Open Access Article Download PDF BibTeX

Preliminary results of the archaeological potential map in SITAR

Mirella Serlorenzi, Ascanio D'Andrea, Carlo Rosa, Paolo Rosati, Daniele Sepio

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The institutional goal of studying and mapping archaeological potential in SITAR in recent years has been to create an efficient tool to support urban planning and cultural heritage management: The Archaeological Potential Map of Rome. The Soprintendenza of Rome plays a key role in this effort, being responsible for the safeguarding and promotion of the city’s archaeological heritage. By developing a robust model of archaeological potential, the Soprintendenza can better anticipate and mitigate the impact of construction and development projects on archaeological sites. This proactive approach ensures that significant archaeological resources are identified and preserved before they are damaged or destroyed. The tool will facilitate informed decision-making in urban planning, helping to balance the needs of modern development with the preservation of historical sites. Moreover, it will support the regulatory framework that mandates archaeological assessments in high-potential areas, rationalisation of administrative processes and improving compliance with heritage protection regulations. Overall, the creation of an efficient archaeological potential model by the Soprintendenza of Rome underlines the commitment to preserving the city’s cultural heritage while accommodating its continuous urban evolution.

«Archeologia e Calcolatori» 2024, 35.2, 285-298; doi: 10.19282/ac.35.2.2024.31

2018 Open Access Article Download PDF BibTeX

Accessibilità e diffusione del dato archeologico: l’esperienza del SITAR

Mirella Serlorenzi

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The original aim of SITAR was to create an instrument available to the community: the idea of ‘mapping’ a complex city like Rome was conceived with the intention of offering a participatory, open and shared data environment. For this reason, the system created in 2007 quickly converted into a webGIS platform capable of showing the topographic positioning of archaeological finds together with descriptive data sheets. Instead, the original documentation of the excavations, pending a decision by MiBAC, is only visible on request, also considering the instances submitted by data producers who have claimed copyright. However, a more in-depth examination of the legislation and in particular of the latest laws leads to the conclusion that the State is the only competent body in this area. Moreover, these rules clearly define the maximum accessibility, usability and reuse of data, guaranteeing full access to documents and administrative procedures, providing the legal basis for a knowledge democracy.

«Archeologia e Calcolatori» 2018, 29, 31-40; doi: 10.19282/ac.29.2018.04

2017 Open Access Article Download PDF BibTeX

L’apertura dei dati per la conoscenza partecipata dell’archeologia di Roma: il data licensing del progetto SITAR

Mirella Serlorenzi, Ilaria Jovine, Andrea De Tommasi

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Recently, some fundamental updates of the Italian legislative framework clarified the topics of public access to and dissemination of data held by public administrations. Specifically, three legislative decrees broadened the scope of the existing laws and regulations to 1) allow public and private users to access more easily public data, 2) stimulate public administrations to better improve their data delivery systems, and 3) activate both new freely and pay-per-download data provisioning procedures, for the benefit of both public and private users. In this evolving scenario, during the last ten years the SITAR Project demonstrated that for the Public Archaeology of Rome and its broad territory it is necessary to 1) achieve a total accessibility of scientific data, also through participative processes and tools allowing ubiquitous access to and real integration, and consequently, validation of information; 2) engage in this participation all users involved in data and knowledge (re-)production and sharing, from scientists and scholars, to public administrators and officers, up to professionals as well as members of the public and all other stakeholders. In this paper, the authors deal with the newly designed SITAR Project data licensing policy illustrating the legal bases on what the SITAR administrative procedures are being implemented and experimented about data openness and their public access and use. The authors also try to offer a contribution to the long cultural debate of these last decades about interrelationships between scientific research and administrative actions of public bodies, public access to data and legal reservations, creativity in archaeology and copyright-copyleft of scientific data produced by public administrations and/or professionals on behalf of the former.

«Archeologia e Calcolatori» 2017, Supplemento 9, 67-92; doi: 10.19282/ACS.9.2017.09

2016 Open Access Article Download PDF BibTeX

Open Data in archeologia: una questione giuridica o culturale

Mirella Serlorenzi, Ilaria Jovine, Valeria Boi, Milena Stacca

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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.

«Archeologia e Calcolatori» 2016, Supplemento 8, 51-58

2015 Open Access Article Download PDF BibTeX

Sperimentazione di tecniche BIM sull’archeologia romana: il caso delle strutture rinvenute all’interno della cripta della chiesa dei SS. Sergio e Bacco in Roma

Andrea Scianna, Mirella Serlorenzi, Susanna Gristina, Mauro Filippi, Silvia Paliaga

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This paper illustrates a step in the research that the GISLab (CNR-UNIPA) has been conducting on the development of informative systems for Cultural Heritage. In particular, it shows a methodology used to describe archaeological sites through 3D models integrated with databases. Models are implemented with BIM software. They are made searchable through the connection with a Relational Database Management System and shareable on the web. The case study, analyzed in collaboration with the Soprintendenza Speciale per i Beni Archeologici di Roma (SSBAR), concerns an application on the Roman structures found in the Crypt of the Church of SS. Sergio e Bacco in Rome. The BIM application we experimented also shows how to use in the archaeological field semantic and parametric solid modeling integrated with 3D standardized and all-inclusive databases that are finally manageable in the public cloud.

«Archeologia e Calcolatori» 2015, Supplemento 7, 199-212

2015 Open Access Article Download PDF BibTeX

Il restauro della Domus Tiberiana e la nuova piattaforma di raccolta ed elaborazione dei dati scientifici SITAR

Maria Grazia Filetici, Mirella Serlorenzi, Raffaella Palombella, Lino Traini

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For decades, the complex of Domus Tiberiana has been the object of continuous monitoring and restorations of structures for understanding the phenomena of displacement and ruin; at the same time, archaeological excavations and architectural surveys have continued. In 2013 new projects aimed at the general restoration of the monument and at its reopening to the public were launched, and a comprehensive and integral program of renovation of historical and archaeological knowledge of the monument was begun. The prerequisite for conservation and archaeological research is the management of a lot of data, published or not, produced over time: this was possible thanks to the use of SITAR, in which data were systematized. In this way, it was possible to improve the knowledge of the history of research and by highlighting the outstanding issues in the historic-archaeological and static-structural knowledge of the monument, it was possible to improve the planning of the most urgent restorations and the most useful archaeological investigations for detailing the lesser known aspects of the monument.

«Archeologia e Calcolatori» 2015, Supplemento 7, 253-270

2013 Open Access Article Download PDF BibTeX

Archeologia e open data. Stato dell’arte e proposte sulla pubblicazione dei dati archeologici

Mirella Serlorenzi, Ilaria Jovine, Valeria Boi, Milena Stacca

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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.

«Archeologia e Calcolatori» 2013, Supplemento 4, 60-78

2013 Open Access Article Download PDF BibTeX

Il webGIS del SITAR: riflessioni, approcci e percorsi metodologici per la pubblicazione e la multi-rappresentazione dei dati territoriali archeologici

Mirella Serlorenzi, Andrea De Tommasi, Raniero Grassucci, Andrea Vismara

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The development of the SITAR project took place in a time of new approaches in the management and use of archaeological geospatial data, even at the higher central levels of the Ministry of Cultural Heritage (MiBAC). SITAR represents an important technological and institutional challenge for the Special Superintendency for Archaeology in Rome, the governmental institution in charge of the safeguarding and exploitation of the Roman archaeological heritage. The aim of the SITAR project is the construction of the Archaeological Territorial Informative System of Rome for the management of the enormous and heterogeneous amount of data and for the multi-dimensional representation of the valuable historical context of a constantly evolving city like Rome. After a first phase of conceptual analysis, data model definition and taxonomic structures description, currently the technological development is focused on the SITAR project web platform and more specifically on the webGIS. The paper discusses the use of basic GIS functions integrated with specific tools for dynamic dataset multi-representation and web editing. These implementations allow all the users, both scholars and archaeology amateurs, to build their own new geospatial information; users now play an actual role in the system and in the enrichment of collective knowledge.

«Archeologia e Calcolatori» 2013, Supplemento 4, 112-119

2012 Open Access Article Download PDF BibTeX

Il Sistema Informativo Territoriale Archeologico di Roma: SITAR

Mirella Serlorenzi, Federica Lamonaca, Stefania Picciola, Cristiana Cordone

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The SITAR project, designed to implement the GIS Archaeology of Rome, was started in 2007 by the Soprintendenza Speciale per i Beni Archeologici di Roma (SSBAR). The starting point for the SITAR project was the SSBAR requirement to digitize and manage a large quantity of administrative and scientific data concerning Cultural Heritage. This project was developed at a crucial point in which the Ministry for Cultural Heritage and Activities was rethinking the Territorial Information System, the data standardization and data sharing system used in the past decades. It was the input to the new institutional Open Approach. This aspect is apparent in the proposed SITAR data model, whose linearity is applied in the same basic logical levels already identified and well-structured information architecture of the System and those that will be tested. The additional advantage of SITAR is precisely the possibility of splitting archaeological knowledge into these core levels and reassembling it under the guidance of those who have the tools and scientific knowledge to do so. The SSBAR aspires to the creation of an archaeological ‘cadastre’ of Rome which is an approved and certified basis created according to information on legal and administrative aspects of archaeological science. In addition, the comparison with other institutions actively engaged in testing new multimedia technologies applied to cultural heritage has encouraged the evolution of SITAR to 3D data modeling and the development of procedures to test the archaeological potential.

«Archeologia e Calcolatori» 2012, 23, 31-50; doi: 10.19282/ac.23.2012.02