Storia, Scienze dell Uomo e della Formazione

Comprendere le attività domestiche e artigianali attraverso lo studio delle installazioni pirotecnologiche e dei residui di combustione.
Venerdì 29 marzo 2019, ore 9:00
Università di Bologna, Dipartimento di Storia Culture Civiltà, Aula Prodi
Piazza S. Giovanni in Monte, 2 – Bologna

Comprendere le attività domestiche e artigianali attraverso lo studio delle installazioni pirotecnologiche e dei residui di combustione.
Venerdì 29 marzo 2019, ore 9:00
Università di Bologna, Dipartimento di Storia Culture Civiltà, Aula Prodi
Piazza S. Giovanni in Monte, 2 – Bologna

This presentation explores the current open access possibilities to the scientific documentation of archaeological excavations in Italy. Recent laws, such as D.L. 179/2012, and L. 33/2013 introduced the principles of “open by default” and of “civic access right” for public administration data, but there is still a lack in the italian legislation concerning the open access to archaeological data

The paper describes the first BarCamp organized within 2013 ArcheoFOSS workshop. Usually a Barcamp is a collaborative non-conference without a predetermined theme. Nevertheless, in this case we recognized and proposed a very high relevance topic in the field of Open Data, “The reuse of data in Archaeology”. Within this frame, attendees were free to discuss specific sub-topics. The term reuse is very common in archaeology, such as the reuse of a site, the reuse of an architectural element or an epigraphic monument. The research itself is based on data that we reuse: historical and historiographical sources, geographic excavation data, photos, metric drawings, etc. Often, however, access to data is not easy, are partially furnished. This has negative effects in terms of efficiency in the dissemination of ongoing researches results and of information completeness and sharing. Paradoxically the increasing number of digital data and formats emphasizes the “access” issues.

This paper, which aims to introduce the session on “Preventive archaeology, predictive archaeology, archaeological potential”,  gives an overview on italian approach to those themes, focusing the attention on urban-scale-ones. In academic projects the aim of predictive modeling is to model the locational behavour of ifferent types of occupations, in order to guide future surveys. In AHM, on the other end, predictive models are used as risk assessment tools, in order to assess and preserve  archaeological heritage in areas interested by urbanistic development, and to limit the destruction of a “finite, non renewable resource”, as archaeological remains are.

The 2014 edition of the Barcamp on the “re-use of data in archaeology” re ected dis- cussions that took place during the ArcheoFOSS workshop in 2013. The discussion focused on the main themes related to the re-use of data, such as: online accessibility (open access), the use of open formats (open format) and, of course, the real data re-use (open data). In 2014 the discussion moved on to the production of data, on the dynamics of their re-use and on the role played by the different professionals involved. In order to provide a complete overview of this theme two of the main  gures in the Italian “open data” scenario, Luca Corsato and Maurizio Napolitano, were invited to join the Barcamp. Their contribution addressed the various aspects related to data re-use more comprehensively. In this brief report the protagonists and the issues raised during the discussion are presented. The liveliness of the discussion underlines the need for these questions and the related issues to be addressed in institutional of ces.

The authors of this paper, Antonello Nasone and Attilio Pinna, reflect upon the idea, principles and origin of Federalism, both as a philosophical and a political concept.

They take the abstract notion of Federalism and contrast it with the current European Union architecture and functioning.

Professor Nasone and Pinna use some very concrete examples of policy development at a European level like:

(1) the response to the financial and banking crisis started in 2008 with the collapse of Lehman Brothers and subsequent real state bubble burst that triggered an unprecedented economic recession

(2) the reaction to the 2014 Scottish referendum of Self-Determination and Catalan independence movement and

(3) the German reunification process of 1989-1990,

to show that there is a long road to go to achieve a more advanced form of European Federalism.