Mappa Project: Pisa - Data-Driven Archaeology Summer School

The Summer School “Data-Driven Archaeology” will enable participants to manage the life cycle of digital archaeological data. It is built around a new paradigm, which takes into consideration archaeologists as both producers and users of digital archaeological data. Attendees will learn the concepts and methods of data retrieval, management, analysis and communication through an integrated use of software, statistical and practical principles. This will be accomplished through field activities connected to pottery analysis within the ArchAIDE project, and ICT-related activities carried out in laboratory and taught in the lectures. The Summer School will take place from June 25th to July 13th 2018, at the University of Pisa, Italy.

The training modules follow the stages of archaeological data life cycle. Data recording and related tools Standard methods of recording archaeological data, positive and critical aspects; data formats; practical activities with potteries from ArchAIDE project. Open Data Search and clean data from the web; Open Data: standards, formats, licenses; re-usable data and compatibility between different data bases. Data Management Data storage and management systems; relational databases and SQL; big data and no-SQL databases; GIS applications; metadata; ontologies. Case studies from potteries of ArchAIDE project. Data Analysis Overview of possibilities of mathematical and statistical modelling in Archaeology; descriptive statistics; statistical testing; Analsis of Variance; linear regression; spatial analysis; predictive modelling and data mining in Archaeology. Applications to data from ArchAIDE project. Data visualisation and communication Publication methods and tools; dissemination and communication of the archaeological data, data visualisation; storytelling.