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

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

Recovery and reuse of structural products from end-of-life buildings

YesBuildings and construction have been identified as having the greatest potential for circular economy value creation. One source of value creation is to recover and reuse building products from end-of-service-life buildings, rather than destructive demolition and downcycling. While there is a trade in non-structural and heritage product recovery and reuse, the largest volume, mass and value of most buildings comprise structural elements – concrete, brick and masonry, and steel – which present many challenges. A comprehensive literature review confirms limited attention to innovation and advanced techniques to address these challenges and therefore the potential reuse of the stocks of accumulated building products globally and associated environmental benefits. Potential techniques being tested in an Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council circular economy research programme are referenced as a key building block towards circular economy building system redesign.Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council - research project Rebuild (EPSRC EP/P008917/1

Il Sistema Informativo Territoriale Archeologico di Roma: SITAR

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

Towards the extraction of semantics from incomplete archaeological records

The Archaeological Geographical Information System of Verona (SITAVR) has been developed since 2011, starting from an existing and well-consolidated system, the Archaeological Geographical Information System of Rome (SITAR). The main objective of both projects is collecting information about the archaeological findings regarding the two Italian urban centres with the aim to support a complete archaeological analysis and allow for easy data reuse and dissemination. Data collected in both projects come not only from current excavation campaigns, but they have also been extracted from very old documents describing excavations performed during the 18th century. In this last case, many details about the location and the time of existence of findings are not known. The SITAVR project has lead to the definition of a domain model for archaeological data, called Star, and now it is focused on the mapping between this model and other international standards, such as the CIDOC CRM and its extension CIDOC-CRMarcheo. This paper presents a general approach for guiding the mapping of a dataset regarding ancient archaeological data towards CIDOC-CRMarcheo, especially for what concerns to spatial and temporal properties that are only partially specified

Numismatica contestuale a Roma tra tarda repubblica e primo impero. Il caso degli Horti Lamiani

Analisi contestuale dei rinvenimenti monetali recuperati nelle stratigrafie di età tardorepubblicana e del primo impero dagli Horti Lamiani (Esquilino) di Roma