The 2024 edition of ArcheoFOSS 2024, the international conference on Open software, hardware, processes, data and formats in archaeological research, will be held on 19 and 20 December 2024. The eighteenth edition will take place in Chieti, at the University of Chieti-Pescara.
LAD is taking part with a paper entitled Application of computational techniques in the visualization and analysis of stratigraphic data, by Domenico Santoro and Julian Bogdani.
Conference programme
ARCHEO.FOSS XVIII | 2024
International conference on Open software, hardware, processes, data and formats in archaeological research
Chieti, December 19-20th 2024
Aula Convegni CAST - Campus Universitario Chieti Scalo
Thursday December 19, 2024
- 9:00 Registration
- 9:30 Opening
- 9:45 Institutional greetings
- 10:00 Towards a Common Infrastructural Framework: Managing and Exploiting Big Data in Archaeological Research through Open Data Systems
Jonas Gregorio de Souza, Alan Tapscott Baltar - 10:15 | Florian Thiery
Infrastructural Frameworks: Managing and Publishing distributed Archaeological Research Data through the Wikibase Ecosystem - 10:30 | Shaddai Heidgen, Jonas Gregorio de Souza, Juan Vargas, Sebastian Fajardo, Marco Moderato, Marco Madella
Protecting Heritage through Fire Risk Assessment in Sacred Indigenous Landscapes of Santa Marta - 10:45 | Edoardo Baiocchi, Romeo Lanzino, Saverio Giulio Malatesta, Marco Raoul Marini, Augusto Palombini, Paolo Rosati
Open data and AI for the search for archaeological monuments on the ground: the NuragAI Project
- 11:00 Coffee break
- 11:15 | Sara Ganimede, Maria Carla Somma
Abruzzo Masonry Hub: cataloguing medieval Abruzzese masonry in an open source online database based on GitHub and GeoJSON - 11:30 | Giacomo Mancuso, Antonio D’Eredità
Two FOSS resources for Cultural Heritage Digital Archaeology in the H2IOSC project - 11:45 | Emanuele Brienza, Lorenzo Fornaciari
Archaeological impact assessment in Iraq using open-source, open-data and high-definition satellite images, following ICA (Italian Central Archaeological Institute) guidelines and formats - 12:00 | Laura Gallucci, Sonia Antonelli
Unlocking Merovingian Cemeteries: Open Database and Integrated Approaches through Classification and Multivariate Analysis of Funerary Practices
- 12:15 Open Data for Urban Archaeological Potential Assessment
Mirella Serlorenzi, Paolo Rosati - 12:30 | Florian Thiery
Jupyter Python Minion: Empowering Open Data for Urban Archaeological Insights - 12:45 | Marco Ciurcina, Piergiovanna Grossi
Images of Italian Cultural Heritage: Ministerial Decree 108 (April 2024) – What Has Changed?
Department of Sciences
- 13:00 Discussion
- 13:15 Lunch
- 14:15 Experiences of virtual archaeology between research and public engagement
Roberto Montagnetti, Roberto Campanella, Antonio Leopardi, Luciano Pugliese, Alfonso Forgione - 14:30 | Alfonso Forgione
The “Amiternum project”, an example of public archaeology - 14:45 | Roberto Montagnetti
The acquisition and recording of excavation data - 15:00 | Roberto Campanella
Recording, documentation and classification of archaeological finds - 15:15 | Antonio Leopardi, Luciano Pugliese
Analysis of the ancient context in a virtual environment, between narrative and critical approach - 15:30 | Roberto Malinconico
AI-Generated Textures and Enhanced Rendering: A Hybrid 3D-AI Approach between Virtual Archaeology and Public Engagement - 15:45 | Cecilia Romagnoli, Violetta Mattia
Preserving Authenticity in Virtual Archaeology: Challenges and Opportunities in 3D Reconstructions of the Holy Sepulchre - 16:00 | Alessandro Melega, Luca Brancazi
Between three-dimensional reconstruction and archaeological documentation. A case study from the area of the ancient Patriarchate at the Basilica of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem - 16:15 | Mattia D’Amico
A digital and virtual approach in the study of archaeological materials from the Basilica of the Holy Sepulchre
- 16:30 Coffee break
- 17:00 | Matteo Orsi, Filippo Di Marco, Davide Carraro, Serenella Saccon, Alessandra Mazzucchi, Antonina Mafodda, Roberto Taglioretti, Maddalena Rafaetà MAPOD4D framework from mass-market Metaverse to Cultural Heritage professional Metaverse
- 17:15 | Matteo Orsi, Umberto Tecchiati, Roberto Taglioretti, Alessandra Mazzucchi, Antonina Mafodda
Osteo_labdig, a scientific software extension of MAPOD4D - 17:30 | Nicol Rossetti, Matteo Orsi, Roberta Fusco, Arianna Vanni, Alessandra Mazzucchi, Roberto Taglioretti, Maddalena Rafaetà, Marta Licata
MAPOD4D framework. A case study from the Church of Santa Maria Maggiore in Vercelli
- 17:45 Data collection and parameters for strata classification: a FLOSS approach to definition, composition, and calibration of post-depositional actions
Valeria Acconcia, Sonia Antonelli, Chiara Casolino, Vasco La Salvia, Marco Moderato, Maria Carla Somma - 18:00 | Valeria Acconcia, Sonia Antonelli, Chiara Casolino, Maria Carla Somma
Classification and standardization of archaeological strata through the quantification of materials - 18:15 | Domenico Santoro, Julian Bogdani
Application of computational techniques in the visualization and analysis of stratigraphic data - 18:30 | Antonio Merola, Marco Moderato, Sara Ganimede, Matteo Gemma, Luca Papa, Alessandro Di Cosmo, Vasco La Salvia
Open Software in Archaeological Practice: Quantitative Stratigraphy with Pyarchinit at Castelseprio
- 18:45 Discussion
Friday December 20, 2024
- 9:00 GIS technologies and complex simulative reconstructions and model validation
Marco Montanari, Marco Moderato - 9:15 | Carlo De Mitri, Paolo Marcato
The Strait of Otranto: Encounter, Trade, and Exchange. A New Data Visualization using GIS and Network Analysis - 9:30 | Federica Vacatello
Reconstructing Space and Function: 3D GIS Approaches to Road Networks and Quarry Exploitation at the Basilica of the Holy Sepulchre - 9:45 | Matteo Gemma
Digital modelling and analysis of medieval landscapes: resources and boundaries in Northern Abruzzo - 10:00 | Luca Bezzi, Alessandro Bezzi, Curt Covi, Rupert Gietl
CesiumJS, a powerful open source JavaScript library for sharing 3D Cultural Heritage models - 10:15 | Melania Marano
GIS and photogrammetry for standardized data recording practices in Archaelogy, from site discovery to heritage management: case studies from Punic and Roman Sardinia - 10:30 | Alberto Agresti, Luca Biancalani, Lorenzo Crescioli, Dario Nincheri
Python within emergency archaeological excavation documentation systems. Application of Pyarchinit to a context in the oldest core of the city of Pistoia
- 10:45 Coffee break
- 11:00 | Lucia Marsicano, Marco Montanari
Roads, quarries and theatres: limits and prospects in the application of agent-based simulation models for the construction of Roman theatres - 11:15 | Amedeo De Lisi, Enrico Croce
Looking for BVER into the GRASS: BVER project, GNA, and Predictive Archaeology
- 11:30 Digital and physical gamification for public archaeology experience
Marco Montanari - 11:45 | Giorgia Maria Annoscia, Mauro Antico, Maria Carla Somma, Paolo Varano
The video game Jacopa da Cencelle: a journey to rediscover the past of a medieval city - 12:00 | Marco Montanari, Andrea Boschetto
Tangible Revolutions: A multi-table experience set on the eve of the French Revolution
- 12:15 Discussion and conclusion
- 13:00 Closing toast