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Host: Institute of Computer Science, Foundation for Research and Technology
Homepage: http://www.caa2002.gr/
Email: caa2002@ics.forth.gr
Organizers: Prof. Panos Constantopoulos (Conference co-chairs), Prof. Athanassios Kalpaxis (Conference co-chairs)
Description:
Conference main theme
"The Digital Heritage of Archaeology"
With computers and electronic communication, information of high quality can be produced at an unprecedented rate, and it can be predicted that shortly the digital form of knowledge keeping will dominate all others, giving rise to a rapidly increasing body of knowledge, which could genuinely be called the "Digital Heritage of Archaeology". This situation poses a series of challenges. First, how to create knowledge in a form we expect to be most useful in the future, even for purposes as yet unspecified. Epistemological questions of interdisciplinary nature between archaeology and computer science thus arise about objectives and methods. Second, questions of management of the wealth of data, its preservation, and its organization to make it available as a resource for research and education. The semantic connection of information about archeological objects in museums and in archives from archeological research is also part of this set of questions. Third, how technologies, such as GIS, virtual reality, simulation, etc., can best be used to exploit this knowledge and to advance research, as well as to assess the needs of field study documentation in the future. CAA2002 provides a good opportunity to draw attention to such an integrated view of the use of computer technology in the service of archaeology.
Conference topics
Epistemology and Interdisciplinary Aspects
Inference and archaeological discourse; Archaeological reconstitution and artefact analysis; Cognitive systems and conceptual modeling: tools for reasoning in archaeology?
Documentation and primary knowledge creation
Conceptual modeling and data standards for field and object documentation; Digitization and annotation of archaeological archives; Archaeometry.
Management of the digital heritage
GIS as a research resource; Access to archaeological knowledge in museums; Access to archaeological archives; Data standards for scientific and educational data exchange on the Internet; Classification systems and thesauri; Archeological information on the Internet - potential and evaluation; Preservation of digital archaeological data.
Secondary knowledge creation tools
Virtual reality as a tool for presenting and evaluating alternative scientific interpretations; Virtual reality as a tool for educational and recreational use of archaeological contents; GIS as a reasoning tool; Statistics and quantitative methods; Simulation methods for the creation and testing of archaeological hypotheses.
Date received: April 29, 2001
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