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[VAST2008] 4th Call for Participation - Registration deadlines!

2008-09-29T02:35:25Z

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Towards Sustainability
Integrated Technological Practices for Human Heritage and Cultural Memory

Dear Colleague,

The VAST2008 Program Committee welcomes and encourages your participation on
this event, and wishes to update you on the following topics regarding the
up-coming Symposium and EUROGRAPHICS Workshop, in Braga-Portugal, 2-5
December 2008:

1. The **early** registration deadline was extended until the 13th
October; note the costs will considerably increase after this date.
2. A preliminary program is already available, and the list of accepted
papers will be advertised.
3. Tuesday is reserved for Workshops, and some of the proposed ones may
be atractive for researchers and professionals.
3. The Multicert company offers the DVD on Coa Valley (mentioned on the
website) to all VAST delegates (including students).
4. Special deals were negociated with hotels, and several rooms are
already reserved for VAST 2008; please book accommodation at the same time
you register to guarantee a room.
5. Travel arrangements: please book your flight to Oporto airport (40Km
away) as soon as possible to get a cheap deal; from the airport to Braga
city centre just get the Metro to Campanha railway station and then the
suburban train to Braga (overall fare less than 5 euros).

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Please take a look into the VAST2008 website (www.vast2008.org) for more
details.
If you browse this website, you will notice that:

- it is being updated very frequently, and you can register for RSS
feeds;
- you can not miss the field trip/excursion to Coa Valley (250km from
Braga) at the end of the Symposium: it is a unique opportunity to visit a
one of a kind place in the world.

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Hoping to see you all in Braga

Alberto Proenca
On behalf of the Program Committee
Chair of the Organizing Committee

Dep. Informatica, Univ. Minho
Braga, Portugal
aproenca @ di.uminho.pt

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Computational Intelligence in Archaeology

2008-09-25T03:00:41Z

Introducing the latest release from IGI Global:

Computational Intelligence in Archaeology

ISBN: 978-1-59904-489-7; 436; July 2008

Published under the imprint Information Science Reference (formerly Idea Group Reference)

http://www.igi-global.com/reference/details.asp?id=7791

Authored by: Juan A. Barcelo, Universidad Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain

Computational Intelligence in Archaeology provides analytical theories offered by new and innovative artificial intelligence computing methods in the archaeological domain. This stimulating, must-have title is full of archaeological examples that allow academicians, researchers, and students to understand a complex but very useful data analysis technique to the field of archaeology.

"This book investigates what it means to solve 'automatically' archaeological problems."

- Juan A. Barcelo, Universidad Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain

DESCRIPTION

Is it possible to build a machine to do archaeology? Will this machine be capable of acting like a scientist? Will this machine be capable of understanding how humans act, or how humans think they acted in the Past? This book tries to offer some possible solutions to these questions and to investigate what does it means to solve "automatically" archaeological problems.

The so called "intelligent" machines incite instinctive fear and anger by resembling ancestral threats -a rival for our social position as more or less respected specialists. But robots are here, around us. So, why to have fear of a machine classifying a prehistoric tool and deciding "intelligently" its origin, function and/or chronology? In other scientific domains the performance of humans at a particular task has been used to design intelligent computer programs that can do the same task in the same manner (and as well). Consequently, the design of an automated archaeologist should not be considered a mere science fiction tale. It is a technological reality.

I have tried to create an analogy with an "intelligent" machine, to understand the way we, archaeologists, think. If a computer can be programmed to perform human-like tasks it will offer a "model" of the human activity that is less open to argument than the empirical explanations that are normal in philosophical debates.

The book introduces the reader to the fascinating world of Artificial Intelligence theory, techniques and technology, and how a new archaeology will be possible if we arrive to integrate the very best from "natural" intelligence and from "artificial" processing.

TOPICS COVERED: Archaeology, Artificial intelligence, Automated archaeology, Historical sciences , GIS, Remote Sensing, Classification, Typologies, Seriation, Burial Analysis, Neurocomputing , Shape analysis , Visual and non-visual analysis , Compositional analysis, Spatiotemporal analysis , Neuroclassification , Remote sensing data, Spatial interpolation , Self-organized maps, Genetic algorithms , Inverse reasoning

For more information about Computational Intelligence in Archaeology, you can read more details in:

http://antalya.uab.cat/prehistoria/Barcelo/IGIBook.html

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Dr. Joan Antón Barceló i Àlvarez is Reader in the Department of Prehistory, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (Catalonia. Spain), where he teaches undergraduate and graduate courses on archaeological theory and methods. He is currently Head of the Laboratory for Quantitative Archaeology and Computer Applications, providing curricular support and technology training for faculty, staff, and students. In addition to his research in the applications of classical statistical tools, and the development of new methodologies from geostatistics, artificial intelligence and virtual reality, he has worked extensively on historical and archaeological investigations about social dynamics in Bronze Age times, Phoenician colonization in the Mediterranean, the origins of agriculture and social complexity in the Near East, and economic resource management and social organization in hunter-gatherer societies in the southernmost parts of America: Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego. He is now investigating long-term dynamics of Patagonian hunter-gatherer societies, with funding from the Spanish Ministry for Education and Research. He has authored a previous book on artificial intelligence applications in archaeology (in Spanish), and another book on statistical methods. He has also edited books on computer applications in archaeology and about virtual reality technologies. He is the author or co-author of more than 100 papers and publications. Eimail: juanantonio.barcelo@...

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To view the full contents of this publication, check for Computational Intelligence in Archaeology in your institution's library. If you library does not currently own this title, please recommend it to your librarian.

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Re: Interested in open science?

2008-09-08T05:37:05Z

Surely open is a founding principle of science? IP issues aside, a scientific "discovery" must be founded on reproducible experiments and the results of the experiments so far carried in out in testing the theory. Always been the weak point in archaeology's science armour, reproducibility. And come to think of it, providing the raw results of the work already done is not so popular either :)

Chris

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> I'm forwarding this because it may be relevant for the many of those
> who
> are involved in Open Access for Archaeology.
>
> ------
>
> from the Science Commons Blog [1]:
>
> Interested in open science?
>
> If so, there’s a new discussion list [2] you may want to join,
> brought to you by the good folks at the Open Knowledge
> Foundation.
>
> Writes OKF’s Jonathan Gray:
>
> As far as we could tell, there wasn’t a general
> mailing
> list for people interested in open science. Hence the
> new list aims to cover this gap, and to strengthen and
> consolidate the open science community.
>
> We hope it will be a relatively low volume list for
> relevant announcements, questions and notes. We also
> hope to get as full as possible representation from
> the
> open science community — so please forward this to
> anyone you think might be interested to join!
>
> [1]
> http://sciencecommons.org/weblog/archives/2008/09/05/interested-in-open-science/
>
> [2] http://lists.okfn.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/open-science
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Interested in open science?

2008-09-08T05:33:05Z

I'm forwarding this because it may be relevant for the many of those who
are involved in Open Access for Archaeology.

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from the Science Commons Blog [1]:

Interested in open science?

If so, there’s a new discussion list [2] you may want to join,
brought to you by the good folks at the Open Knowledge
Foundation.

Writes OKF’s Jonathan Gray:

As far as we could tell, there wasn’t a general mailing
list for people interested in open science. Hence the
new list aims to cover this gap, and to strengthen and
consolidate the open science community.

We hope it will be a relatively low volume list for
relevant announcements, questions and notes. We also
hope to get as full as possible representation from the
open science community — so please forward this to
anyone you think might be interested to join!

[1]
http://sciencecommons.org/weblog/archives/2008/09/05/interested-in-open-science/

[2] http://lists.okfn.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/open-science

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Quantitative Archaeology Wiki: new Translation feature

2008-09-08T05:18:14Z

Hi all,
last week I took some time to add a new feature to the Quantitative
Archaeology Wiki, namely the Translation plugin. This allows for easy
translation of the existing content while preserving the existing page
names and structure. Just use the translation toolbar at top-right on
each page, following the guidelines at
http://wiki.iosa.it/wiki:translation

For now I have added the following languages: German (de), Spanish (es),
French (fr) and Italian (it). If you think you need more languages, just
let me know.

I know there aren't many contributions to the wiki but the number of
readers is always increasing so maybe translating some of the pages
could be useful for making content more available.

Best regards,

Stefano

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Fwd: 13th international congress "Cultural heritage and new Technologies" - schedule now online

2008-08-22T00:39:55Z

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Oggetto: 13th international congress "Cultural heritage and new Technologies" -
schedule now online
A: MA 7 Kongress Archäologie <kongrarchae@...>

13th International Congress "Cultural Heritage and New Technologies"
(Workshop 13 "Archäologie und Computer")
November 03rd- 05th, 2008

City Hall of Vienna, Austria- Wappensaalgruppe

http://www.stadtarchaeologie.at/
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Dear Colleagues!

The Stadtarchäologie Wien are pleased to announce the schedule
(http://www.stadtarchaeologie.at/tagung/monday.htm) of the

13. International Congress "Cultural Heritage and New Technologies"
to be held 3rd-5th November, 2008

in the City Hall of Vienna, Austria

BASICS - GRUNDLAGEN

If you are not registered up to now, so you have the posibiltiy to do it online
or send us your data via fax.
(http://www.stadtarchaeologie.at/tagung/einfo.htm).

Since some days you have also the possibilty to book your hotel-room online
(http://www.pegasus.at/archaeologie2008.html).

If you have further questions, please do not hesitate to contact us.

Best regards and see you in Vienna
Wolfgang Börner

Museen der Stadt Wien - Stadtarchäologie
Mag. Wolfgang Börner
Obere Augartenstraße 26-28, Zi. 2.11
A - 1020 Wien
Tel.: +43 (0)1 4000 81176
Fax: +43 (0)1 4000 99 84747
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http://www.stadtarchaeologie.at

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13th International Congress "Cultural Heritage and New Technologies"
(Workshop 13 Archäologie und Computer)
November 03rd 05th, 2008

City Hall of Vienna, Austria Wappensaalgruppe

http://www.stadtarchaeologie.at/

Dear Colleagues!

The Stadtarchäologie Wien are pleased to announce the schedule (http://www.stadtarchaeologie.at/tagung/monday.htm) of the

13. International Congress "Cultural Heritage and New Technologies"
to be held 3rd-5th November, 2008

in the City Hall of Vienna, Austria

BASICS - GRUNDLAGEN

If you are not registered up to now, so you have the posibiltiy to do it online or send us your data via fax. (http://www.stadtarchaeologie.at/tagung/einfo.htm).

Since some days you have also the possibilty to book your hotel-room online (http://www.pegasus.at/archaeologie2008.html).

If you have further questions, please do not hesitate to contact us.

Best regards and see you in Vienna

Wolfgang Börner

Museen der Stadt Wien - Stadtarchäologie
Mag. Wolfgang Börner
Obere Augartenstraße 26-28, Zi. 2.11
A - 1020 Wien
Tel.: +43 (0)1 4000 81176
Fax: +43 (0)1 4000 99 84747
wolfgang.boerner@...
http://www.magwien.gv.at/archaeologie
http://www.stadtarchaeologie.at

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Call for Participation and News Update: VAST 2008, Braga Portugal December 2-5

2008-06-12T03:15:34Z

The international support committees for VAST 2008 are working hard to make the 9th annual event and scientific program your first priority. We welcome your contributions and participation in what is shaping up to be a remarkable week in Braga this December.

Please visit the website (www.vast2008.org) and find attached a PDF file with more detailed information.

Deadline for submission of paper abstracts is July 7th.

News:

VAST2008.org website is launched. The website will continue to unfold and is being updated constantly. Visit it often for the latest news on speakers, paper and workshop submissions, sponsorship and excursions.

Invited Speakers: we are pleased to announce keynote speakers Roberto Scopigno and Ruth Tringham, leaders in computer technologies and archaeology. Please read their bios on the VAST 2008 site.

Submission system online: through cooperation with Eurographics, the 2008 submission system is online and OPEN. Please submit your abstracts as soon as possible to help us shape the scientific program. (http://www.vast2008.org/psub.php).

Scientific Committee: the VAST 2008 Scientific Committee is comprised of a diversified, international group of specialists, researchers and leaders. We will soon announce the committee on the symposium website.

Registration fees: besides the usual promotions for Eurographics and EPOCH members, those that will help us to better plan the event will have a reduced fee ("Early Registration"), and a special "All-in-One" pass is also offered. See the details on the website.

2nd Call for Papers

We are at a unique point in history, where cultural heritage professionals must work to care for the physical past while assuring that there will be a digital record for the future.

The challenge we propose is to bring to bear the knowledge and expertise of the VAST network of researchers and professionals that will lead to sustainable practices of stewardship for the long term, for tangible, intangible and virtual heritage alike.

We see this symposium as a dialogue on the present and future of archaeology in the 21st century. The sessions, papers, tutorials and workshops will explore the wealth of opinions and expertise on this vast topic, ranging from nuts-and-bolts practical information on geographical information systems to producing non-linear narratives and multi-vocal visualizations of the past.

We are seeking contributions that advance the state of the art in the technologies available to support sustainability of human heritage.

The following topics are particularly encouraged:

· 2/3/4D Data Capture and Processing in CH

· Augmentation of physical collections with digital presentations

· Data Acquisition Technologies

· Digital capture & annotation of intangible heritage (performance, audio, dance, oral)

· Interactive Environments and Applications for CH

· Long term preservation of digital artefacts

· Metadata, classification schema, ontologies and semantic processing

· Multilingual applications, tools and systems for CH

· Multimedia Data Acquisition, Management and Archiving

· On-site and remotely sensed data collection

· Professional and Ethical Guidelines

· Standards and Documentation

· Storytelling and Design of Heritage Communications

· Tools for Education and Training in CH

· Usability, Effectiveness and Interface Design for CH Applications

· Visualization

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Digital Heritage in the new knowledge environment: shared spaces & open paths to cultural content

2008-05-23T09:22:36Z

(via Ancient World Bloggers)

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
OF THE
HELLENIC MINISTRY OF CULTURE

1ST Announcement – Call for Papers/Participation

The Directorate of the National Archive of Monuments of the Hellenic Ministry of
Culture is organizing a three-day Conference on

“Digital Heritage in the new knowledge environment:
shared spaces & open paths to cultural content”.

The Conference, which is going to be held in the end of October 2008, intends to
promote a dialogue on current issues and concerns raised regarding the new
knowledge environment, as this is formed by the use of new media for heritage
management and dissemination.

The discussion will grow around five sessions addressing

a) Case studies of new technologies applied in Archaeology and Heritage
Management,
b) Activity towards the formation of a common language to ensure
compatibility and interoperability of applications and systems,
c) The use of Web 2.0 as part of the new knowledge environment,
d) Free, open and public access to heritage content
e) Theoretical approaches to cultural heritage and digital culture.

As part of the above sessions, keynote talks have been invited and will be
presented by notable researchers and specialists, including:

Dr Adam-Veleni, Director, Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki
Dr Dallas C., Assistant Professor, Panteion University
Dr Constantios D., Director, Byzantine & Christian Museum
Dr Constantopoulos P, Professor, Athens University of Economics & Business
Dr Cotsakis C, Professor, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Dr Tourta A., Director, Byzantine Museum of Thessaloniki
Farmakis G., Chief Executive Officer, Agilis S.A.
Dr Ashley M., Executive Director, OKAPI, Multimedia Authoring Center for Teaching
in Anthropology, UC Berkeley
Dr Brogan T., Director, Institute for Aegean Prehistory Study Centre for East
Crete (INSTAP)
Dr Doerr M., Institute of Computer Science, Foundation for Research & Technology
Mr Ducke B., Senior Applications Support and Development Officer, Oxford
Archaeology
Dr Elliott T., Associate Director for Digital Programs, Institute for the Study of
the Ancient World, New York University
Mr Eve S., Director, L-P Archaeology
Mr Isaksen L., Doctoral Student at School of Electronics and Computer Science,
University of Southampton, Ántiquist Community Moderator, formerly Senior IT
Development Officer at Oxford Archaeology
Dr Kansa E., Executive Director, Information and Service Design (ISD), School of
Information, UC Berkeley
Mr Poole Í., Chief Executive, MDA (Europe)

For further information on the Conference and the thematic sessions please see the
attached file.

We invite all interested to participate with a 15-minute original presentation in
Greek or English to send the title and a 350-word abstract of their talk until 9th
June 2008, including the title of the thematic session under which they wish to be
considered. The selection of papers will be based on the extent of the abstract,
the abstract consistency with the conference theme, and the post date. The
conference presentations will be published in a volume by the Hellenic Ministry of
Culture. Please send abstracts to Ms Kappa by email to evkappa@..., by post
to the Directorate of the National Archive of Monuments offices, Ag. Asomaton 11,
Athens, GR-105 53, Hellas, by fax to +30 210 322 5628. Participants will be
notified by 30th June 2008.

The exact conference dates, as well as a preliminary programme will be announced
in July 2008.

We are looking forward to hearing from you, and please do not hesitate to contact
us for any further enquiries.

Metaxia Tsipopoulou, Ph.D.
Director
Hellenic Ministry of Culture
National Archive of Monuments

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Re: Total Open Station

2008-05-20T09:47:10Z

Il giorno mar, 20/05/2008 alle 17.28 +0100, Joseph Reeves ha scritto:
> Gratuitous blog spamming aside, Luca Bianconi has just helped me get
> Total Open Station on the Openmoko platform:
>
> http://blogs.thehumanjourney.net/finds/entry/2
>
> "The FreeRunner has a USB host port; you simply plug your phone into
> the Total Station, download the data and send it over the mobile
> network to our survey database in the office.

Joseph,
that's really good news. When I first thought about a cross-platform
application I didn't think about _so_ many platforms ;-)

Now my question is: what is your Total Station model? Can you provide
sample data so we can write a parser module for it?

Thanks,
Steko

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Re: Total Open Station

2008-05-20T09:28:08Z

Gratuitous blog spamming aside, Luca Bianconi has just helped me get
Total Open Station on the Openmoko platform:

http://blogs.thehumanjourney.net/finds/entry/2

"The FreeRunner has a USB host port; you simply plug your phone into
the Total Station, download the data and send it over the mobile
network to our survey database in the office. No computers, no messing
about, just data from the field to the office ASAP. We don't have to
worry about laptops and the like; everyone will have the tools
necessary to get the job done."

Thanks to all involved for a really exciting piece of software, my
mind's racing about the future possibilities of it.

Joseph

On 18/03/2008, Luca Bezzi <luca.bezzi@...> wrote:

> Hi Stefano,
>
> I think this project is really interesting.
>
> If you want we can help testing it with our two total station (Geodimeter
> 500 and Foucs 10), but i think i can try it also with the total station of
> the university of Innsbruck, Pisa and Padua, when i work for them (but
> before i have to ask). When the software is ready and working we can insert
> it in ArcheOS (if you agree). We released the second version (based on
> Ubuntu), but we are tensting a lot of new software we would like to insert
> in a new version that maybe we will release during the workshop of Padua.
>
> Nice greetings,
>
> Luca Bezzi
>
> Arc-Team
> Archaeology & Free Software
> http://www.arc-team.com/
> luca.bezzi@...
>
>
> On Fre Mar 14 18:20 , Stefano Costa sent:
>
> Dear all,
> this e-mail is to inform you about a new software project that I started
> writing recently. The project is called Total Open Station. From the
> README:
>
> """
> I started writing this program for making it easier to manage different
> models of total stations in a GNU/Linux environment. However, I try to
> develop following standards, so porting to Windows or Mac shouldn't be
> difficult.
>
> Every model has its own quirks. So, I decided to use a modular
> structure, that is based on an abstract interface. Each time a new model
> is added to the program, you create a new instance of this base class,
> with all needed data.
> """
>
> Total Open Station is developed with the Python programming language.
> For those who are interested in participating the project website is at
>
> http://sharesource.org/project/totalopenstation/
>
> The (few lines of) code that I have written as of today are here in a
> Mercurial repository:
>
> http://hg.sharesource.org/totalopenstation/
>
> Let me know if you want to help - even a test with your total station is
> welcome!
>
> Best regards,
> Stefano
>
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> http://www.iosa.it Archeologia e Software Libero
> Io uso Debian GNU/Linux!
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Re: Analysing spatial point patterns in R

2008-04-14T06:26:07Z

Dear all,

When I use the function envelope, there are some errors as following, why? And how to deal with( My computer memory is 512M)?
Thank you very much.

???<- envelope(???,pcf,i=???,j=???)
Error: cannot allocate vector of size 5.3 Mb
In addition: Warning messages:
1: In vector("double", length) :
Reached total allocation of 502Mb: see help(memory.size)
2: In vector("double", length) :
Reached total allocation of 502Mb: see help(memory.size)
3: In vector("double", length) :
Reached total allocation of 502Mb: see help(memory.size)
4: In vector("double", length) :
Reached total allocation of 502Mb: see help(memory.size)

Stefano Costa wrote:

Dear all,
I'm sorry for the silence of the mailing list in the last months.
However, feel free to use this mailing list to exchange information as
you like. Our topic is rather comprehensive.

I'd like to forward this to the list:

>
> A full set of course notes on
> 'Analysing spatial point patterns in R'
> is now available at
> <http://www.csiro.au/resources/pf16h.html>
>
> The course is based on the package 'spatstat'. It includes a brief
> introduction to R, a detailed introduction to the 'spatstat' package,
> and
> a discussion of statistical methodology.
>
> Adrian Baddeley

It's very detailed and has good examples.

Best regards,
Stefano

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Re: Total Open Station

2008-03-18T03:01:02Z

Hi Stefano,

I think this project is really interesting.

If you want we can help testing it with our two total station (Geodimeter 500 and Foucs 10), but i think i can try it also with the total station of the university of Innsbruck, Pisa and Padua, when i work for them (but before i have to ask). When the software is ready and working we can insert it in ArcheOS (if you agree). We released the second version (based on Ubuntu), but we are tensting a lot of new software we would like to insert in a new version that maybe we will release during the workshop of Padua.

Nice greetings,

Luca Bezzi

Arc-Team
Archaeology & Free Software
http://www.arc-team.com/
luca.bezzi@...

On Fre Mar 14 18:20 , Stefano Costa sent:

Dear all,
this e-mail is to inform you about a new software project that I started
writing recently. The project is called Total Open Station. From the
README:

"""
I started writing this program for making it easier to manage different
models of total stations in a GNU/Linux environment. However, I try to
develop following standards, so porting to Windows or Mac shouldn't be
difficult.

Every model has its own quirks. So, I decided to use a modular
structure, that is based on an abstract interface. Each time a new model
is added to the program, you create a new instance of this base class,
with all needed data.
"""

Total Open Station is developed with the Python programming language.
For those who are interested in participating the project website is at

http://sharesource.org/project/totalopenstation/

The (few lines of) code that I have written as of today are here in a
Mercurial repository:

http://hg.sharesource.org/totalopenstation/

Let me know if you want to help - even a test with your total station is
welcome!

Best regards,
Stefano

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Re: Total Open Station

2008-03-17T05:46:56Z

I'd have to ask on features (unless another OA staffer is on the list and has ideas?) as its not my area - although file compatibility with DWG using the (closed but free to use) Open Design Alliance libraries would be a nice option.

I can mentor on the general project/problem solving side and could get a more specialist member of staff (Ben Ducke) to mentor too.

On how many models of Total Station, again I'd have to ask for details, but definitely several different ones in the various offices.

Chris

----- "Stefano Costa" <steko@...> wrote:

> On ven, 2008-03-14 at 17:57 +0000, Chris Puttick wrote:
> > We're interested...
> >
> > Don't suppose you want to add it to the Open Archaeology Launchpad
> > site? You can put a sub-project of it forward as a Google Summer of
> > Code idea then!
>
> Hi Chris,
> it would be nice to have this project included in Summer of Code:
>
> https://answers.launchpad.net/openarchaeologygsoc/+question/27275
>
> Are you willing/available for mentoring? And, most important: how
> many
> different models of total station can you provide? :-)
>
> For now I have no projects for a GUI and I'll focus on:
> 1. serial connection parameters and communication
> 2. different data formats and data retrieval
>
> It's going to be modular enough to allow different kinds of output:
> DXF,
> GML, KML, GeoJSON... which other features would be a must for you?
>
> Best,
> Stefano
>
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Re: Total Open Station

2008-03-17T04:38:16Z

On ven, 2008-03-14 at 17:57 +0000, Chris Puttick wrote:
> We're interested...
>
> Don't suppose you want to add it to the Open Archaeology Launchpad
> site? You can put a sub-project of it forward as a Google Summer of
> Code idea then!

Hi Chris,
it would be nice to have this project included in Summer of Code:

https://answers.launchpad.net/openarchaeologygsoc/+question/27275

Are you willing/available for mentoring? And, most important: how many
different models of total station can you provide? :-)

For now I have no projects for a GUI and I'll focus on:
1. serial connection parameters and communication
2. different data formats and data retrieval

It's going to be modular enough to allow different kinds of output: DXF,
GML, KML, GeoJSON... which other features would be a must for you?

Best,
Stefano

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Re: Total Open Station

2008-03-14T10:57:19Z

We're interested...

Don't suppose you want to add it to the Open Archaeology Launchpad site? You can put a sub-project of it forward as a Google Summer of Code idea then!

Cheers

Chris

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> Dear all,
> this e-mail is to inform you about a new software project that I
> started
> writing recently. The project is called Total Open Station. From the
> README:
>
> """
> I started writing this program for making it easier to manage
> different
> models of total stations in a GNU/Linux environment. However, I try
> to
> develop following standards, so porting to Windows or Mac shouldn't
> be
> difficult.
>
> Every model has its own quirks. So, I decided to use a modular
> structure, that is based on an abstract interface. Each time a new
> model
> is added to the program, you create a new instance of this base
> class,
> with all needed data.
> """
>
> Total Open Station is developed with the Python programming language.
> For those who are interested in participating the project website is
> at
>
> http://sharesource.org/project/totalopenstation/
>
> The (few lines of) code that I have written as of today are here in a
> Mercurial repository:
>
> http://hg.sharesource.org/totalopenstation/
>
> Let me know if you want to help - even a test with your total station
> is
> welcome!
>
> Best regards,
> Stefano
>
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Total Open Station

2008-03-14T10:20:06Z

Dear all,
this e-mail is to inform you about a new software project that I started
writing recently. The project is called Total Open Station. From the
README:

"""
I started writing this program for making it easier to manage different
models of total stations in a GNU/Linux environment. However, I try to
develop following standards, so porting to Windows or Mac shouldn't be
difficult.

Every model has its own quirks. So, I decided to use a modular
structure, that is based on an abstract interface. Each time a new model
is added to the program, you create a new instance of this base class,
with all needed data.
"""

Total Open Station is developed with the Python programming language.
For those who are interested in participating the project website is at

http://sharesource.org/project/totalopenstation/

The (few lines of) code that I have written as of today are here in a
Mercurial repository:

http://hg.sharesource.org/totalopenstation/

Let me know if you want to help - even a test with your total station is
welcome!

Best regards,
Stefano

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per chi si interessa di ontologie

2008-03-01T11:05:45Z

Da questo link http://www.epoch-net.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=216&Itemid=332 potrete scaricare il tool per il mapping di dati AMA e il database MAD presentato a Genova lo scorso maggio. Sul sito troverete inoltre le istruzioni per l'installazione.

Per chi prova il tool AMA deve ricordarsi di CAMBIARE i permessi!!!!!

Saluti e salute

Matteo

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Analysing spatial point patterns in R

2008-02-27T03:11:36Z

Dear all,
I'm sorry for the silence of the mailing list in the last months.
However, feel free to use this mailing list to exchange information as
you like. Our topic is rather comprehensive.

I'd like to forward this to the list:

>
> A full set of course notes on
> 'Analysing spatial point patterns in R'
> is now available at
> <http://www.csiro.au/resources/pf16h.html>
>
> The course is based on the package 'spatstat'. It includes a brief
> introduction to R, a detailed introduction to the 'spatstat' package,
> and
> a discussion of statistical methodology.
>
> Adrian Baddeley

It's very detailed and has good examples.

Best regards,
Stefano

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3D Laser Scanning

2008-02-21T19:24:56Z

Hello All!

I am not sure if this ithe right palce to post this but I thught it might genrate some interest. I am a 3D Artist and Developer who is currently in the process of using a 3D laser scanner to create 3D models of artifacts, fossils and other related items.

If you are interested please take look at some of the of the following 3D model scans offered her for FREE in OBJ format. If anyone out there is interested in more information on the 3D laser scan process or obtaining a lisense for using 3D laser scan data please contact me at alex@pangea3d.com. Thanks Enjoy!

http://www.pangea3d.com/view_video.php?viewkey=ed88f18ecee47145a72c
http://www.pangea3d.com/view_video.php?viewkey=3d06de0ca9a15b615367
http://www.pangea3d.com/view_video.php?viewkey=6fa44e1ed0ff613f563b

-alex

Photo gallery from the museum of Olympia

2008-01-16T10:52:08Z

My recent images from the Archaelogical Museum of Olympia of the East and West Pediment of the temple
of Zeus can be seen at:
Museum of Olympia

Greek thesaurus

3° workshop OS/FS Open Format

2008-01-12T01:21:14Z

Università degli Studi di Padova
Dipartimento di Archeologia
Piazza Capitaniato 7 - 35139 PADOVA
Tel. 049.8274573 - Fax 049.8274613

Oggetto:

I circolare Comunicazione del 3° Workshop Open Source, Free Software e
Open Format.

Si comunica che presso l'Università degli Studi di Padova Dipartimento
di Archeologia si sta organizzando il 3° Workshop Open Source, Free
Software e Open Format nei processi di ricerca archeologica. In continuità
con le edizioni precedenti (Grosseto 2006 -
http://www.archeogr.unisi.it/asiaa/open/, Genova 2007 -
http://workshop07.iosa.it/workshop07/), l'evento di portata nazionale si
svolgerà nelle due giornate dell'8 e 9 maggio 2008 a Padova.
La natura e le finalità del workshop possono sintetizzarsi nei seguenti
punti:
a. confronto tra diverse esperienze pratiche circa l'utilizzo del software
open source nella disciplina archeologica e riflessione sull'opportunità e
sui vantaggi dell'uso di tali applicativi in archeologia;
b. necessità dell'utilizzo di linguaggi e formati aperti per la
comunicazione e lo scambio del dato archeologico;
c. problematiche legislative e culturali relative alla libera circolazione
dei dati;
d. vantaggi del software e della filosofia open source nell'ambito della
didattica e della ricerca universitaria.

Al fine di organizzare nella maniera più opportuna l'evento, i membri del
comitato scientifico richiedono a tutte le persone interessate a
partecipare al workshop come relatore, come pubblico o con un poster, una
preiscrizione informale e non vincolante. A tale scopo è sufficiente
inviare, entro il mese di febbraio, una semplice e-mail all'indirizzo:
workshop.archeologiaos@...

A questa prima comunicazione seguirà una seconda circolare in cui saranno
fornite ulteriori informazioni circa programma, scadenze e modalità per
l'invio degli abstract.

Ulteriori informazioni sono disponibili sul sito:
www.archeologia.unipd.it/workshop08/
oppure scrivendo a: workshop.archeologiaos@...

Con preghiera di massima diffusione,

il comitato scientifico:

Luca Bezzi (Università di Padova, Arc-Team),
Denis Francisci (Università di Padova),
Damiano Lotto (Università di Padova),
Stefano Costa (grupporicerche IISL),
Piergiovanna Grossi (Università di Verona),
Gianluca Pesce (ISCUM, grupporicerche IISL),
Roberto Bagnara (Università di Parma),
Giancarlo Macchi (Università di Siena).

Referenti scientifici presso il Dipartimento di Archeologia:
Prof. Giovanni Leonardi
Prof. Jacopo Bonetto

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1st Annual Antiquist Workshop

2008-01-09T03:27:09Z

(via stoa.org)

1st Annual Antiquist Workshop

21-23 April 2008

Department of Archaeology

Southampton University
www.antiquist.org

CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS

The 1st Annual Antiquist Workshop will be hosted at Southampton
University Archaeology Department in April 2008. The purpose of the
Workshop is to provide postgraduate students in Archaeological
Informatics and associated disciplines with the opportunity to:

* Broaden their skill base with a short series of practical seminars
focusing on real-world applications of IT in archaeology

* Get career guidance from professionals working in the field

* Network with peers from other institutions

* Become involved with the Antiquist online community for IT &
Cultural Heritage

Seminars will be based on topics requested by participants but are
likely to include GIS, web-based mapping, 3D visualisation &
reconstruction, data structuring and scripting. Workshop attendance is
free but participants will need to pay for food and accommodation where
required. The organisers will be happy to reserve accommodation at a
local hostel or hotel on request. Places on the workshop are limited and
will be assigned on a first-come-first-served basis. Topics requested by
early registrants may also be given priority. The final deadline for
registration is 10 February 2008.

In order to register please send an email to l.isaksen@...
stating your name, institution and course, two specific topics which
would be of interest to you, and whether accommodation arrangements
should be made.

Please feel free to forward this to any person or list likely to be
interested.

Best wishes

The AAW team
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portale cartografico nazionale

2008-01-06T05:01:30Z

Per chi già non lo conoscesse volevo segnalare il sito del Portale Cartografico Nazionale dove è consultabile dell'utile cartografia tra cui anche IGM 100000 e 25000:
http://www.pcn.minambiente.it/pcn/index.html

Denis Francisci

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Protocol for Implementing Open Access Data

2007-12-18T10:25:26Z

Some days ago, the Science Commons initiative published this first
version of their memo (think of this like a sort of RFC) named "Protocol
for Implementing Open Access Data". It's not a document describing a
technical internet standard, but rather gives the minimum requirements
for releasing and distributing data and databases as Open Access, as
defined by the Open Knowledge Definition and the Budapest Declaration on
Open Access.

http://sciencecommons.org/projects/publishing/open-access-data-protocol/

It shouldn't be too hard to adapt this document to fit the need of
archaeologists who are interested in sharing their data - a recurrent
issue at least in some countries, where the legal status of
archaeological data is quite unclear.

Best,
Stefano

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segnalazioni

2007-10-24T10:07:00Z

Ciao a tutti.
Volevo segnalare a chi già non li conoscesse due siti a mio parere interessanti:
1. http://www.antiqui.it/ = contiene diverse pagine relative ai temi dell'archeologia quantitativa. Le varie metodologie sono spiegate in maniera sintetica ma chiara e in più si trova una ricca bibliografia per ogni argomento. Questo sito credo sia già stato segnalato da Stefano su http://del.icio.us/tag/qmdaa.

2.http://www.catalhoyuk.com/ = offre un esempio di condivisione di dati archeologici: infatti dal sito si possono scaricare relazioni di scavo e navigare tra le varie unità e strutture scavate nel corso degli anni.

For not italian:

Dear all,
I want to point out two interesting sites:
1. for quantitative methods in archeology (http://www.antiqui.it/)
2. for an example of archeological data sharing ( http://www.catalhoyuk.com/).

Best,
Denis Francisci.

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