The First International Workshop on "Cyberinfrastructures and Archaeology - CYBERARCH-" will take place in the Auditorium of the Conservatorio Santa Chiara, Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa, San Miniato, Tuscany , from 16 to 17 October 2008 .
The Workshop is the first devoted to Cyberinfrastructures for the Archaeological Research and for the Management and Economical Exploitation of the Archaeological Heritage. The 2008 Workshop will focus on advanced Information and Communication Technologies in Archaeology and special attention will be devoted to applications in Sciences and Humanities related with the History of Humans and Ancient Societies, integrated with the History of the Earth. The participation of representatives from industry will make it possible to discuss future applications of basic research. The Workshop will be based on review talks summarizing the progress of complex projects and major facilities. Shorter talks will cover contributions on specific items. The presentation of posters is also foreseen.
Main topics:
- Grand challenges: Grand Opportunities? Archaeology, Historic Environment Sector and Cyberinfrastructures.
- Cyberinfrastructures and Archaeology
- Collaborative but distributed interaction between researchers
- Collaboration that meets “ grand challenges ” in Archaeology
- Massive and distributed computing power
- Massive and distributed storage and transport of data
- Virtual access to shared scientific facilities
- Data mining, fusion and analysis
- Etc...
Archaeology as Virtual Research Organization
Infrastructures and Networks
Large Repositories, Repositories Interoperability, Repositories Federation
Digital Libraries
Portals, Portlets
Visualisation, Simulation and Modelling
Resource discovery, delivery and processing
Etc...
Attendance will be by invitation and limited to approximately fifty participants. Those interested should [e-/s-]write to the Scientific Secretariat.
For further information, please visit the workshop website.
