Abstracts Volume - 22 nd International Conference on Cultural Heritage and New Technologies Conference CHNT in cooperation with • City of Vienna, Department for CULTURAL AFFAIRS • City of Vienna, Department for AUTOMATED DATA PROCESSING, INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGIES • 7REASONS Medien GmbH Media Cooperations • ARCHEOMATICA • DIGITAL MEETS CULTURE • GEOCONNEXION • OPEN ARCHAEOLOGY Silver Sponsors • CAPTURINGREALITY s.r.o. • RIEGL Laser Measurement Systems Sponsors • LEICA Geosystems Austria GmbH • LIPPIZANER ®Wien • STRÖCK • 16 th DISTRICT COUNCIL (Ottakring) Exhibitors • 7REASONS Medien GmbH • 4D-IT GmbH • ARCTRON 3D GmbH. • AGISOFT • CAPTURINGREALITY s.r.o. • INARI – Archaeolgical Information System 1 Urban Archaeology and Integration Combing archaeology, history, and new technologies The aim of this conference is to enhance the collaboration between historians and archaeologists and related disciplines using new technologies and to showcase best practice applications in multidisciplinary research. The conference organizers invite sessions dealing with one of the following topics or a combination thereof: • Application of effective 3D-methods for the reconstruction of buildings, integrating archaeological excavation data with historical sources including images, thus increasing our understanding of the past • Additional digital methods for the combined visualisation of archaeological and historical data (e.g. monitoring changes and preservation of archaeological monuments based on historical images). • Application of new technologies to assess the archaeological record based on historical data (maps, tax returns, inventories, ship wreck lists, etc.) and/or combining historical sources and archaeological data in a geographical information system for recording the history of urban or rural landscapes. • Games, apps, and teaching software integrating archaeological and historical knowledge • Historical data as a basis for checking or validating digital tools applied in archaeology and vice versa. • Dealing with inscriptions (including cuneiform, hieroglyphs and symbols): digital methods for enhancing readability (e.g. Reflectance Transformation Imaging), pattern recognition of letters or pictograms, comparison of hand writing (same author?). • Statistical analysis investigating the correlation between historical place names and archaeological evidence. Scientific Committee 2 Content: Advanced Archaeological Trainings Training 1 – Integration of Archaeological, Historical and Surveying Data Documenting a Mining Landscape Training 2 – Archaeological Geospatial Infrastructures - Searching, finding and using findings and their documentation with geospatial catalogues Training 3 – Professional presentations Round Tables Round Table 1 - Interpreting Cultural Heritage during Conversion Projects Round Table 2 – The Application of Games, Immersive Environments and Role-Playing in Cultural Heritage Round Table 3 - Data model beyond the digital 3D model Sessions: Integrating historical maps and archaeological data using digital technologies 3D Documentation in Underwater Archaeology: Photogrammetry, Georeferencing, Monitoring, and Surveying Cultural Heritage and Armed Conflicts New Approaches to Medieval Structures and Space New Realities 3: Virtual, augmented reality and ALL other techniques in Cultural and historical Heritage for the general public Reflections and research on archaeological practices in the digital era PhD / Master Session 3D digital reconstruction and related documentation sources 3 Adding life to written sources by studying the dead The Employment of Mobile Applications for Survey, Documentation and Information Poster Session App Session 4 ABSTRACTS – ADVANCED ARCHAEOLOGICAL TRAININGS Training 1 – Integration of Archaeological, Historical and Surveying Data Documenting a Mining Landscape (Organisers: Gerald HIEBEL | Klaus HANKE, Austria | George BRUSEKER, Greece) In particular: • Application of new technologies to assess the archaeological record based on historical data (maps, tax returns, inventories, ship wreck lists, etc.) and/or combining historical sources and archaeological data in a geographical information system for recording the history of urban or rural landscapes. • Historical data as a basis for checking or validating digital tools applied in archaeology and vice versa. The ancient mining landscape of Schwaz/Brixlegg in the Tyrol, Austria witnessed mining from prehistoric times to modern times. These activities left distinct physical structures in the mountains south of the Inn river ranging over 50 km. This area documents the history of mining from bronze age copper mining to medieval and modern times silver mining creating a first order cultural landscape. With our training we want to show a workflow how to integrate archaeological, historical and surveying data on a semantic and geoinformation level. The goal is to combine georeferenced geometric information of mining landscape and structures with a semantic representation of the mining structures thus providing knowledge on functionality and periods of usage. For the workshop sample data of the mining landscape will be provided and a hands on tutorial will introduce attendees to the notion of semantic mapping and be linked to an introduction to an overall semantic data transformation and exploitation workflow. The first challenge in this process is to integrate different information sources coming from surveying, archaeology, geology and history under one conceptual model. We will demonstrate how to use formal ontologies and in particular the CIDOC CRM, an ISO standard for cultural heritage documentation to model research data as well as geometric data. A series of mini exercises will initiate attendees into the process of semantic mapping of real, sample archaeological data structures. The workshop will further demonstrate how such mappings can be used to transform information sources to a formal representation of the classes and properties of the ontology using semantic web technologies to create a knowledge graph in RDF (Resource Description Framework), a data format that is able to relate logical statements within a network. In the tutorial presentation the steps and potential tools to execute such transformations will be described. Saved into a triple store, an RDF graph can be queried using the SPARQL query language to create more powerful searches than available through standard database technologies. For the training, sample SPARQL queries have been built to demonstrate how they can be used on a snapshot of mining, settlement and burial sites in the Bronze Age, or the temporal usage of mines in early modern times. The results of the query are loaded into a Geoinformation system and will be visualized together with a high resolution digital elevation model. Queries and results will be detailed in the tutorial. The format of the training will be a best practice demonstration on sample data of the mining landscape with exercises in conceptual modelling. The sample data (in all stages of their processing) 5 and a detailed description of the workflow will be made available online, with the goal that workshop participants will be able to go through the workflow on their own. Training 2 – Archaeological Geospatial Infrastructures - Searching, finding and using findings and their documentation with geospatial catalogues (Organiser: Markus JOBST, Austria) Archaeological work comes along with digital excavation maps, measurements, findings, documentation, interpretation and similar location based documentation. Publications and pictures of our CH data are a main result of our work and sometimes are widely used by others. The reason is that these artefacts have to be published and therefore become accessible to others. Some of these topics will be needed in GIS systems for further analysis and work. For this reason we have to share all the contents by publishing their metadata and making the sources available, if we like to do so. And even if collaboration is not our aim, these Web-based systems allow us to efficiently manage and – if done right – sustainably save our constantly growing datasets and documentation. Initiatives like the ARCHES project or Arachne from DAI (German Archaeological Institute) show us the importance, usage and requirements of doing so. This hands-on workshop on Archaeological Geospatial Infrastructures leads through the basic paradigm of these modern mapping and management technologies. Simple examples in a well prepared software framework (totally based on open source components) explain the basic methods of the Web, Service-Oriented Mapping and its services, Metadata management, publishing of content and the creation of Spatial Data Infrastructures. The aim is to provide an easy access to Spatial Data Infrastructures and Documentation Management toolset for Cultural Heritage topics – using different metadata catalogues – and to understand their impact for management issues as well as world-wide initiatives for infrastructure harmonisation (like INSPIRE or the UN-SDI). This workshop is held by the ICA [the International Cartographic Association, [ www.icaci.org ] Commission on Map Production and Geoinformation Management [ http://mapproduction.icaci.org ]. Training 3 – Professional presentations (Organiser: Carmen LÖW, Austria | Nadine ALPINO, Germany) Archaeologists are confronted every day with the task of communicating their work to a diversity of audiences or target groups. Whether it is public lectures