Workshop
CALL for SHORT PAPERS

Organizer: David Bibby, Regierungspräsidium Stuttgart, Germany | Christoph Blesl, Federal Monuments Authority, Vienna, Austria | Manuela Fischer, Regierungspräsidium Stuttgart, Germany

Description of the workshop: The archaeological archive receives not only finds but also the data resulting from an archaeological excavation. This may be in analogue but increasingly in digital form. This data is the essential and ONLY representation of the objects, features and contexts which, through their examination through excavation have ceased to exist. The perpetuation of this data for public and scientific posterity is therefore essential. This “simple” statement is not so simple in its execution. It provokes any number of questions regarding data management and preservation strategies, access and not least, visualization for example:

  1. How can an accessible archive (Heritage Authority, Museum, Collection) sensibly use digital data for Visualisation and what purpose might these visualisations serve?
  2. What content should be digitalised/visualised and for what purpose:  i.e. should content be digitalised/visualised for archiving or should archive goods be digitalised/archived to enable access for archive users? How is the “act” of digitalising/visualisation carried out? What techniques are used? What basic techniques/rules/Standards must be obeyed? Can an archive define capacity limits (costs, storage, resources) or must it continue to expand to meet growing needs?
  3. Can data structures/ data content be visualised in a useful and meaningful way? How can such aspects as data volume, data structure, data format and software requirements be made understandable at a glance?

Target group: Data Producers – Mediators of scientific knowledge – members of historic monuments authorities

Suggestion for course of Workshop: Impulse presentations and discussion. We – the workshop participants – are trying to outline a common process (sender and receiver) for intelligent and workable archive inputs of Visual Heritage data.

Submit your abstract via online form!