Digitization of Archival Data and Metadata in Archaeology: The Case of Ancona

During the development of the digital archaeological map of the city of Ancona, in the Marche region, around 12,000 files were digitized relating to the documents associated with the individual archaeological contexts, coming from the administrative archive, the historical archive, the drawing archi...

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Main Author: Eleonora Iacopini
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description During the development of the digital archaeological map of the city of Ancona, in the Marche region, around 12,000 files were digitized relating to the documents associated with the individual archaeological contexts, coming from the administrative archive, the historical archive, the drawing archive, excavation diaries, and all of the scientific documentation associated with them. Given the amount of data and their importance from an information point of view, to prevent them from remaining as “silent” documents, it was envisaged to associate each of them with a metadata system based on the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI) standard.
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spelling doaj-art-e77de9a31a23409a8490592e3fad4a8f2024-12-27T14:48:19ZengMDPI AGProceedings2504-39002024-03-01961910.3390/proceedings2024096009Digitization of Archival Data and Metadata in Archaeology: The Case of AnconaEleonora Iacopini0Dipartimento di Scienze dell’antichità, La Sapienza Università di Roma, Piazzale Aldo Moro 5, 000185 Roma, ItalyDuring the development of the digital archaeological map of the city of Ancona, in the Marche region, around 12,000 files were digitized relating to the documents associated with the individual archaeological contexts, coming from the administrative archive, the historical archive, the drawing archive, excavation diaries, and all of the scientific documentation associated with them. Given the amount of data and their importance from an information point of view, to prevent them from remaining as “silent” documents, it was envisaged to associate each of them with a metadata system based on the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI) standard.https://www.mdpi.com/2504-3900/96/1/9metadataarchaeological mapgeonode
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