ArcheoFOSS 2012: one week left to submit your abstracts
There is one week left to submit your abstracts for the 2012 ArcheoFOSS workshop. The deadline is on Monday 26th March 2012. The call for papers and posters ...
There is one week left to submit your abstracts for the 2012 ArcheoFOSS workshop. The deadline is on Monday 26th March 2012. The call for papers and posters ...
C’è ancora una settimana per presentare relazioni e poster al workshop ArcheoFOSS 2012. La scadenza è lunedì 26 marzo 2012. La call for papers si trova sul s...
Oculu-Z is a new effort to gather a community of developers and users (is there still a difference between the two?) around open source techniques of 3D reco...
Il blog Archeologia 2.0 ha stilato un elenco dei 10 archeologi italiani più attenti all’innovazione digitale, alle nuove tecnologie, e agli sviluppi dei medi...
Thanks to readthedocs.org, the SVG Pottery documentation project is now available directly at http://svg-pottery.readthedocs.org/en/latest/, and it is always...
A few months ago I posted here a vision to put pottery drawings on the Semantic Web. Now I’m trying to follow up on that vision, going into the details and p...
It’s almost impossible to know how many potsherds have been drawn by archaeologists up to date. Their number is however no doubt well over one million (educa...
Today an article that I wrote was published on Nòva24, a weekly supplement to “Il Sole 24 ore”, a major Italian newspaper. You can read it online at ilsole24...
Last April I started to collect some sketch notes about archaeology as text. It’s not about reading archaeological remains as a text to be read (this could b...
Everyone is taking thousands of digital photographs each year. For an archaeologist, it’s common practice to collect pictures of museum artifacts, archaeolog...
As many readers will know, since 2008 we’ve been working to enable archaeologists and their colleagues with a chance to do professional surveying on free ope...
There is a great conference in Turin in 11 days: COMMUNIA Conference “University and CyberSpace”. The list of speakers is just amazing, if you would like to ...
Since the 19th century, the study of archaeobotanical remains has been very important for combining “strict” archaeological knowledge with environmental data...
How is that citizens have no access to entire datasets that are used every day by thousands of people? Here is a draft of a possible explanation, simplistic ...
Tonight I was walking along a country road near my house, almost in the dark. Despite the highway that runs at less than 500 meters from there, there was an ...
After several days of hard studying and hacking, I could discover how to use SPATIALITE from a Java class or less generically from a Java application. I sho...
We're unfortunately getting used to this kind of announcements about cuts for research and education bodies. Let's not get used to culture as a minor, unesse...
CONFIGURE JAVA It needs having installed on your system a Sun Java 5 compatible compiler. You can install it parallel to the usual open-jdk, usually already ...
It’s time to get into this new adventure and sailing towards new lands! I’ve been accepted as student for the Google Summer of Code 2010, and with me the IOS...
We have finally managed to put online the video footage of the seminar “Diritti d’autore e banche dati per i Beni Culturali” that we had last year in Genoa o...
ArcheoFOSS 2010, the 5th Italian workshop on “Free software, open source e open format nei processi di ricerca archeologica” took place in Foggia, 6 and May....
We’re very pleased to announce that the new release of Total Open Station is almost ready. Within a few days we’re going to release the 0.2 version of the ap...
Tomorrow in the early morning I’m leaving for Granada. CAA 2010 starts on Tuesday. I’m giving two talks, unfortunately both are in the same session so I hope...
Yesterday 26 March I was in Torino and I had a chance to follow some sessions of the EVPSI meeting, organized by the NEXA Center for Internet & Society, ...
In 2010, using and developing free and open source software for archaeological research is not interesting news: lots of us do that nowadays, and the quality...
These are some rough notes taken last week at Late Antique Archaeology conference 2010 about Local economies? Production & exchange of inland regions, th...
I just landed in Rome, and I’ve learned from the news that Alberto Ronchey passed away some days ago. He was ministry of Cultural Heritage during the 1990s w...
Today the Open Knowledge Foundation blog features an article written by myself introducing “Open data in archaeology”, the working group started a the OKF la...
Forward from the Scientific Committee: [V]i comunico che la scadenza per la presentazione degli abstract è stata posticipata dal 30 gennaio al 19 febbraio
I can’t remember exactly when I started following Open Access News, the most important source of news for everything open access, from literature to public s...
The last special issue of the Radiocarbon journal marked a big step forward in radiocarbon dating. The IntCal04 calibration curve was available for a period ...
Marco Valenti from the University of Siena and his LIAAM (Laboratorio per l’Informatica Applicata all’Archeologia Medievale) recently published a new manual ...
How many code sprints and hackmeetings are going to happen in the OSGeo world during this new year? The short answer is: a lot of them. If you are near one c...
A few days ago, thanks to Jonathan Gray of the Open Knowledge Foundation, a proposal for a Working Group on Open Data in Archaeology was drafted. There’s a w...
A few months ago, we found out through Antiquist that DAI (Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, i.e. the German Archaeological Institute) has published a set ...
Good news from Anna Hodginkson of Oxford Archaeology North via Antiquist: I would like to announce the release of the Survey and GIS manual produced at Oxfo...
Forward from Benjamin Ducke (OA Digital): Dear GIS users, a beta version of the imminent gvSIG OADE 2010 has just been released. This release is based on gv...
Samian Pottery data are available in various formats, namely XLS, SXC (OpenOffice.org 1.0 format) and TXT (tab-separated values in fact). There is no actual ...
A few days ago I’ve started my first Python 3 program. It’s written from scratch using modules from Python’s standard library. I’m using the Debian package f...
From the CAA 2010 website:
The latest issue of “Archeologia e Calcolatori” has an interesting paper by Mike Baxter and Hilary Cool about the statistical analysis of some loomweights fr...
Through Antiquist: Please find below the Call for Papers for the 2010 CAA UK being hosted at UCL, London. We are still accepting abstracts and the deadline ...
It’s been a long time now since my last update here. However this website, the IOSA project and its head (that is, me) are not dead at all. First of all, the...
Every year we try to go at least to one large archaeoinformatics meeting in Europe (other than our Italian workshop). It’s a neat way to meet new and old fri...
The Aardvarchaeology blog run by Martin Rundkvist has an interesting and detailed article about one current major problem of dendrochronology, which he summa...
Il giorno 7 maggio 2009 si è tenuto a Genova, presso l’aula magna della Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia, il seminario sul tema “Diritti d’autore e banche dati...
Last week I was in Milan for a workshop about the study of pottery from Gortyna, Crete, among all Italian universities working there (flyer and programme her...
Ten days ago Luca Mandolesi released his pyArchInit QGIS plugin. pyArchInit is a free/open source tool for the management of excavation data (compatible with...
Titus Brown is looking for examples of how Python is used in the Humanities. Archaeologists love snakes! I have pointed out our experience with Python progra...
Start reading here http://www.iris.ba.cnr.it/Corso.html “Corso di formazione “Low cost software & Cultural Heritage” (12 maggio - 9 giugno)” organized by...
The aficionados readers and users of iosa.it, if any, were probably asking themselves what was going on, given the substantial lack of updates here.
Inoltro con grande piacere l’annuncio di Giancarlo: Cari Amici, scrivo solo per informarvi dell'uscita del volume "Spazio e Misura", pubblicato da Edizioni...
A quasi una settimana dalla conclusione del 4° workshop “Free software, open source e open formats nei processi di ricerca archeologica”, riesco finalmente a...
Looks like IOSA is not the only group of passionate archaeologists who develop free/open source software to fulfil their research needs and release their sou...
Il programma completo del “4° workshop italiano “Open source, free software e open formats nei processi di ricerca archeologica” è ora disponibile. Ricordia...
I’m back in Siena, after 3 days spent in Rome (hosted by Elena). On Wednesday I went to the American Academy, even though I was missing an important piece o...
I am in the process of writing/building my dissertation, and dealing with pottery distribution maps and such things, I’ve just noticed that I miss something ...
http://ancientworldbloggers.blogspot.com/2009/01/open-letter-concerning-recent-firing-of.html To: ARCHAEOLOGISTS AND THE CONCERNED COMMUNITY AT LARGE To wh...
We have moved the development infrastructure of Total Open Station from Sharesource to Berlios. Berlios gives us more control on website and repositories adm...
Lots of archaeological news these days in Open Access News, the primary collector of Open Access related information and discussion. This is probably a direc...
It’s a great pleasure for me to announce that the “spearheads” dataset used in the “Digging Numbers” textbook by M. Fletcher and G. Lock has been released by...
The Quantitative Archaeology Wiki is perhaps one of the most important sub-projects of IOSA, and this explains for the continuous efforts made in enhancing t...
Quote from the last page of the recent article On statistical approaches to the study of ceramic artefacts using geochemical and petrographic data by Baxter ...
The third and last day of the conference saw me and Elisa enter the National Bank hall around 11 in the morning, just in time to hear the CIDOC CRM presentat...
This is not as early as the previous report, but you can take it for good anyway. On Saturday November, 1st the second day of the conference saw an interest...
It’s late night here in Athens but I still have some seconds to write a brief report about this first day of the International Conference. The venue is grea...
Just a quick note before flying to Athens. I’ll be there with Elisa from tomorrow until November, 4th to attend the international conference “Digital Heritag...
You might have noticed a lack of updates here at iosa.it, and the cause is simple: I was again on the field doing the second excavation campaign of this year.
Last week I took some time to add a new feature to the Quantitative Archaeology Wiki, namely the Translation plugin. This allows for easy translation of the ...
from the Science Commons Blog: If so, there’s a new discussion list you may want to join, brought to you by the good folks at the Open Knowledge Foundation....
After 8 months of silence about this interesting topic, at last I’ve found some time to put online the small draft application I have been writing to demonst...
Lots of rumors these days about the new hyper-tastic search engine named cuil. So after having read some bad reviews about it I decided to give it a spin us...
Just a few days ago, good news were published that the Antiquist community decided to open up its mailing list archives, making thus accesible to anyone mont...
It looks like the old Stereo photogrammetry software has been revamped recently. There’s a new page on Sourceforge: http://stereo.sourceforge.net/ But it lo...
Iosa’s team is developing (already quoted some posts ago) the software called Total Open Station, for surveying and data recording from total stations. In th...
Tomorrow I'm leaving Italy. In 2 days I'll be in Gortina, Crete, for the 2008 campaign in the Byzantine Quarter at Gortina with the University of Siena and t...
One of the first results of the collaboration between Iosa’s team and Oxford Archaeology is available on https://launchpad.net/mpm . This is the test version...
Joseph Reeves has showed us something that wasn't even planned when we started the Total Open Station project. He had our “helper” application running on the...
Oxford Archaeology (which I’ve visited last week by the way) is covered on the Ubuntu website as a successful case study for the migration of a whole company...
Note for non-Italian readers: an English version is coming soon. Il 3° workshop “Free software, open source e open formats nei processi di ricerca archeolog...
On the 7th of May 2008, there will be a meeting with Richard Stallman, one of the Free Software’s main “philosophers”, in Savona’s Campus of the University o...
The Iosa’s team is proud to inform that we have just completed the Italian Tutorial of one of the most common and useful software we use in the development o...
Today I was looking for a LRA1 link on the amphorae catalogue on the ADS website. I quickly found what I was looking for http://ads.ahds.ac.uk/catalogue/arch...
There are lots of people assuming archaeological users are not an interesting market(and probably they’re right), in particular if they cannot access the mon...
iosa.it is cited in an interesting paper by Antonella D’Ascoli (JIIA) which was presented in 2006 as part of the project Biblioteche Digitali in Italia. Here...
I think that there’s only a couple of words more often approached to “Archaeology” than “pyramids”: don’t you know which they are? If I say “lack of funds”,...
I started a new software project recently. The project is called Total Open Station. From the README:
Thanks to a grant we’ve got and to the kindness of an archaeological enterprise’s manager, a person of Iosa’s team is finally go abroad, in England, and he’s...
Thanks to Tom Elliot, now we have two planets aggregators for a number of ancient world and digital archaeology blogs at http://planet.atlantides.org/ Tune y...
via publishing archaeology: This text is from: http://www.arl.org/sparc/author/addendum.html Your article has been accepted for publication in a journal...
PerryGeo has an interesting post on his blog about using the GRASS i.* modules to find impervious surfaces. I have no experience in archaeological remote sen...
I’m very very happy to tell everybody, we have finally published the photos taken during Genoa’s workshop on May 2007. You can find them in the following rel...
Some time ago I posted here the first of a series of tutorials about the use of Graphviz for producing an Harris matrix. The second part I'm writing is a bit...
The Opengeodata blog has an interesting post about choosing the right license for geodata produced by open data lovers like the OSM project is: http://www.op...
The new Open Data Commons blog has published the first draft of the Public Domain Dedication and Licence. This license basically does what the Open Access Da...
Following my previous post about the first draft of a Protocol for Implementing Open Access Data, which has been also discussed on some other archaeoblogs, I...
The Journal for Late Antique Religion and Culture is a new peer-reviewed OA journal from Cardiff University. The inaugural issue is now online. Can please l...
Our effort to keep iosa.it always updated and filled with useful content keeps us very busy. Some months ago, comments from non-registered users were disable...
Via Ancient World Bloggers:
On most excavations the large number of stratigraphic units and contexts makes it necessary to use some sort of representation of the relative chronological ...
Some days ago, the Science Commons initiative published this first version of their memo (think of this like a sort of RFC) named “Protocol for Implementing ...
via Digging Digitally: The Archaeoinformatics Consortium is pleased to announce the participants in the 2007-2008 Virtual Lecture Series schedule. The Virtua...
Today I have added a new tutorial in the Spatial analysis section of the Quantitative Archaeology Wiki. Using GRASS, a simple method is shown for performing ...
From http://www.opencontentlawyer.com/: This licence covers copyright and database rights over databases. It doesn’t cover the rights over the contents of t...
Open Archaeology is an umbrella-project that will host a number of sub-projects. While functional at a component level these sub-projects are intended to int...
MeshLab is an open source, portable, and extendible system for the processing and editing of unstructured 3D triangular meshes. The system is aimed to help t...
The main purpose of the Digital Archaeological Documentation Project is is to create a number of tutorials about the use of Free Software in archaeology, mai...
From PastThinking: Last week, Framework Archaeology launched an update to their Archaeology at Heathrow T5 website. The update includes an improved version ...
(through Open Access News and Jo Cook's blog): Wessex Archaeology have just announced that they will be using a Creative Commons license for the 600+ photos ...
Last week I was looking at some slides from a lecture here at university. One slide caught my attention more than others, it was a map with some pie charts r...
Pleiades is an international research community, devoted to the study of ancient geography, organized by the Ancient World Mapping Center at the University o...
MAGIS is an inventory of regional archaeological survey projects in the greater Mediterranean region. The website features a spatial search engine, a databas...
This is a non-exhaustive list of links about free software and open source from the EpochNet website, that lists also iosa.it.
After the 2nd edition of the Italian Workshop "Open Source, Free Software e Open Format nei processi di ricerca archeologica" [1], which was held in Genova o...
ImageMagick® is a software suite to create, edit, and compose bitmap images. It can read, convert and write images in a variety of formats (about 100) includ...
Gutenkarte is a geographic text browser, intended to help readers explore the spatial component of classic works of literature. Gutenkarte downloads public d...
Stereo is an old free photogrammetry software, that was developed in 1997 by Paul Sheer during his PhD. At the moment it's one of the few free software progr...
These pages on the website of prof. Juan A. Barceló deal in detail with some of the hot topics in archaeological computing, like Artificial Intelligence and...
Yesterday we had a lecture by Fabio Remondino from ETHZ on Photogrammetry and 3D in Archaeology. It has been very interesting, despite the hot temperature in...
This tutorial covers the basics of the R environment for the Windows platform with figures that help the R newbie.
This collection of web pages is intended to be a guide to some of the resources for the analysis of spatial data using R, and other associated software. Anot...
The BRICKS Project – Building Resources for Integrated Cultural Knowledge Services – researches and implements advanced open source software solutions for th...
The QGIS development team released version 0.8 ('Titan') on December 29th. At present this is primarily a source release for those that want to build QGIS. P...
We are happy to announce that a new stable version of GRASS GIS has been released today. This release adds hundreds of new features, support for the latest G...
GRASS is a Geographic Information System (GIS) used for geospatial data management and analysis, image processing, graphics/maps production, spatial modeling...
VisIt is a free interactive parallel visualization and graphical analysis tool for viewing scientific data on Unix and PC platforms. Users can quickly genera...
GMT is an open source collection of ~60 tools for manipulating geographic and Cartesian data sets (including filtering, trend fitting, gridding, projecting, ...
The aims of the AG CAA study group’s meetings: * to foster communication between archaeologists using quantitative methods or computer based methods of anal...
The American Numismatic Society is developing an infrastructure for the digital publication of numismatic catalogs, exhibitions, articles, and other material...
surfit is a computer program which enables to calculate regular grid from various data (scattered points, curves, surfaces, etc), conditions and inequalities...
OpenJUMP is an open source GIS software written in Java. It is based on JUMP GIS by Vivid Solutions. http://openjump.org/wiki/show/HomePage
SNNSraster is a utility for quick ANN analysis of raster GIS maps with the use of Stuttgart Neural Network Simulator trained network files. It was developed ...
The Recursive Porous Agent Simulation Toolkit (Repast) is one of several agent modeling toolkits that are available. Repast borrows many concepts from the Sw...
SIMILE is a joint project conducted by the W3C, MIT Libraries, and MIT CSAIL. SIMILE seeks to enhance inter-operability among digital assets, schemata/vocabu...
The GRASS Development Team announces: GRASS GIS 6.1.0 released 11 August 2006 A new technology preview version of GRASS GIS is being released today in prep...
Sayonara, Dyabola, says the latest stoa.org news entry.
The Alexandria Archive Institute (AAI), a nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting and developing open resources of world cultural heritage, has just an...
The MapWindow application is a ready-to-use spatial data viewer, and a tool that can be modified into a new custom application. Customization is done by edit...
What is STARS ? - Space-Time Analysis of Regional Systems (STARS) is an open source package designed for the analysis of areal data measured over time. STARS...
Some days ago Newsforge published an article by Marco Fioretti entitled Uncovering FOSS in archaeology, which deals quite specifically with a great number of...
Joone is a FREE Neural Network framework to create, train and test artificial neural networks. The aim is to create a powerful environment both for enthusias...
This is a late and very personal report about the workshop we had in Grosseto on May, 8th.
My question to the forum community is related to the need to back to the earth. I was very well impressioned by Grosseto’s workshop, but, in the same time, a...
EpiDoc represents a growing, global collaboration of humanists and information technologists (a.k.a., the “EpiDoc Community”) whose joint aim is the ...
Lurking on BlenderNation I found today this good tutorial that can be useful for a simple approach to the study of ancient architectures, using two of our fa...
Ida is an open-source documentation tool especially designed for culture historical use that is being developed in 3D-bridge project. It is not an image data...
This site presents the open source tools used and developed for visualisation of culture heritage. The flow starts with IDA which is a documentation tool. Wi...
The new EPrints repository http://eprints.jiia.it/ linked to JIIA & ADR, is now available. In a few weeks the old MyOPIA repository will be discarded and...
The UNESCO Free Software Portal gives access to documents and websites which are references for the Free Software/Open Source Technology movement. It is also...
Produced by the EU MINERVA project, this is a CMS built specifically for small/medium museums. It’s prototype that is fully compliant with XHTML, CSS and WAI...
GGobi is an open source visualization program for exploring high-dimensional data. It provides highly dynamic and interactive graphics such as tours, as well...
Led and developed by the community, OrbisCAD pursues two basic objectives: <ul><li>building a powerful and reliable project which can fully handl...
gpsd is a service daemon that monitors one or more GPSes attached to a host computer through serial or USB ports, making all data on the location/course/velo...
GPSBabel converts waypoints, tracks, and routes from one format to another, whether that format is a common mapping format like Delorme, Streets and Trips, o...
ProCAD is a Python script for Blender that makes it easy to use Blender as a 3D CAD tool. It’s still in early stage of development, but it has many nice feat...
VIPS is an image processing system designed with efficiency in mind. It is good with large images (images larger than the amount of RAM in your machine), and...
The goal of VTP is to foster the creation of tools for easily constructing any part of the real world in interactive, 3D digital form. This goal will requir...
The site is a web-based GIS database that will contain a basic record sheet for each site excavated by AIAC for any period in a given year with, at the discr...
On this site, the authors, a team of one archaeologist, two physicists, one mathematician and one computer scientist, hope to start a meeting point for softw...
The Visualization ToolKit (VTK) is an open source, freely available software system for 3D computer graphics, image processing, and visualization used by tho...
ParaView is an application designed with the need to visualize large data sets in mind. The goals of the ParaView project include the following: Develop an o...
p.mapper is a MapServer PHP/MapScript Framework, based on UMN MapServer and PHP/MapScript by DM Solutions. The p.mapper framework is intended to offer broad...
The Open Source Geospatial Foundation has been created to support and build the highest-quality open source geospatial software. The foundation’s goal is to ...
One notable thing I forgot to mention lately is the following: At this URI http://geomatica.como.polimi.it/workbooks/n5/list.php you can find an abstract and...
This workshop aims at putting together all archaeologists (actually, just from Italy) that would like to discuss about the adoption, use and development of O...
Well, seems like 2006 started and 2005 got archived. :) The iosa.it site is alive and well, with the usual updates and links to useful stuff that one finds h...
Blender has had another long development cycle resulting in a release packed with rewrites, new features and improvements. The major additions this release a...
ArcheOS 1.0 “Akhenaton” is the first live bootable CD built with archaeology in mind. Version 1.0 is out now, thanks to the effort of the Arc-Team.
The Indo-U.S. Science & Technology Forum on Digital Archaeology was held at Mussoorie, India on November 11-13, 2005. Among technology issues discussed a...
For over twenty years research has been conducted in the applications of remote sensing and GIS in the Burgundy region of France. This long term research pro...
The MapServer Foundation has been created to support and build the highest-quality open source geospatial software. The foundation’s goal is to encourage the...
The project Archaeological Park of ancient via Appia. From the field to Virtual Reality applications regards activities, technologies and digital solutions c...
QGPS is a small GPS status program that is designed to work with a NMEA-compliant GPS device that outputs the GGA, GSA, GSV, and RMC strings. Aside from disp...
gvSIG is a tool oriented to manage geographic information. It is characterized by a user-friendly interface, with a quick access to the most usual raster and...
Data Explorer is a powerful system of tools and user interfaces for visualizing data. It is an open source project based on IBM’s Visualization Data Explorer...
Mark Lake is a lecturer at Institute of Archaeology, University College London. His interests are mainly in the field of quantitative methods, mostly focused...
These are David Redhouse’s notes on getting various GIS tools to work on OpenBSD. David Redhouse is a Computer Officer in the Department of Archaeology at th...
The ASIAA lab is a research unit within the CCGBA: Bachelor Degree in Archaeology at the University of Siena at Grosseto. The Laboratory was established in 2...
Recently I asked the Science Commons staff about similar initiatives in the archaeology-related field of studies and publishing.
This is the personal web page of a design architect (in italian, sorry) and deals with some topics of architectural drawing that are of interest for archaeol...
Info page of young German researcher Benjamin Ducke at University of Kiel (in german, sorry). Here you can find some useful extensions for the GRASS, among t...
The last release of QuantumGIS is 0.7.3, which features just bugfixes and enhancements of previous 0.7.0, but now there are also binaries for Linux (Debian a...
The site should now work. In the past days our host has had some problems, but now they should be all fixed. We continue working on the website everyday. Wel...
October 19th my bachelor thesis MUST be ready..
The Irrlicht Engine is an open source high performance realtime 3D engine written and usable in C++ and also available for .NET languages. It is completely c...
WW2D is cross-platform, free and open-source version of NASA World Wind software, see http://worldwind.arc.nasa.gov for details. WW2Dallows you to explore Ea...
SAGA – System for Automated Geoscientific Analyses- is a hybrid GIS software. The first objective of SAGA is to give (geo-)scientists an effective but easy ...
Comes a day when it's time to give some piece of news about what we're doing, and today it is. We're writing down a brief tutorial on Walldrawer, a free phot...
A bugfix release of GRASS GIS has been published. For more information: http://grass.itc.it/announces/announce_grass601.html.
The STOA Consortium is a blog-based web portal whose goal is “Serving news, projects, and links for digital classicists everywhere” as said in their mission ...
Version 0.7.0 of QGIS has been released. It features a lot of changes since 0.6, including a raster georeference plugin for creating world files, a highly-cu...
The Open Access News Blog, mantained by Peter Suber. is a primary resource about the Open Access movement, updated every day with lots of news from all over ...
MapTools.org is a resource for users and developers in the open source mapping community, and a home to many open source projects. The projects that are host...
Science depends upon the ability to observe, learn from, and test the work of others. Without effective access to data, materials and publications, the scien...
This work aims to develop an educational digital photogrammetric workstation, using a high-level programming language. The concept of an educational digital ...
SIOX stands for Simple Interactive Object Extraction and is a solution for extracting foreground from still images with little user interaction. The underlyi...
Version 2.0 of Happydigger has been released. All URLs and other useful information can be found at http://www.xs4all.nl/~pa4tu/happydigger/happydigger.html ...
just discovered the BlogAPI feature in Drupal, quite cool! i’m updating everyday the site with more and more links, tutorials, and I’m currently writing an a...
YafRay is a powerful raytracer, under the LGPL license. It enables you to create fantastic images and animations of a photorealistic quality.
Piovra 1.2 is a python scripts set that allow you to distribuite a rendering process on a local network. It can be used from a shell or a GUI, and it is poss...
OpenEXR is a high dynamic-range (HDR) image file format developed by Industrial Light & Magic for use in computer imaging applications. OpenEXR is used ...
Workshop material by Markus Neteler on http://mpa.itc.it/markus/osg05/ , A tutorial (both in english and spanish) and the slides are available for download, ...
Yafray integration is one of the best features added to Blender. The current release of Blender 2.35 has a very neat integration with Yafray from within Blen...
Aqsis is a high quality, photorealistic, 3D rendering solution. It complies with the Renderman® interface standard defined by Pixar. Aqsis comprises a comma...
In this article from the latest issue of GnomeJournal, Claus Schwarm takes a look at the history and the current development version of K-3D, a tool for 3D m...
Veusz is a scientific plotting package written in Python. It uses PyQt (Wiki) and Numarray. Veusz is designed to produce publication-ready Postscript output....
Italian set of downloadable and online tutorials on R, the “GNU S” application for statistical computing. Quite outdated but still very useful, the language ...
ImageJ is a public domain Java image processing program inspired by NIH Image for the Macintosh. It runs, either as an online applet or as a downloadable app...
I’ll like point out an interesting italian tutorial about “R”. This document it’s avaible at URL: http://venus.unive.it/statcomp/r/apertura.html.
I’ll like point out an software that I use in the dendrochronology’s laboratory of I.S.Cu.M.. The measure of the rings that we make on the photograph of some...
These tutorials deal with some of the most important functions in Blender, like mesh editing, skinning tools, animated textures, object extrusion, procedural...
This is the official Blender Tutorial archive. Noteworthy are the Video Tutorials (in english) that will guide you through your learning of this powerful ope...
Digital Culture (DigiCULT) is an IST Support Measure (IST-2001-34898) to establish a regular technology watch for cultural and scientific heritage over the p...
white_dune is a graphical VRML97 editor, simple NURBS/Superformula 3D modeller and animation tool. VRML97 (Virtual Reality Modeling Language) is the ISO stan...
K-3D is the free-as-in-freedom 3D modeling, animation, and rendering system for GNU / Linux, Posix, and Win32 operating systems. K-3D features a robust, obje...
BRL-CAD is a powerful constructive solid geometry solid modeling system that includes an interactive geometry editor, ray-tracing support for rendering and g...
This newsletter has been in production in paper form since 1985. In this time it has been widely recognised within its field as an important reference source...
This complete tutorial (28 pages - 2.9 MB PDF) written by Lorenzo Moretti deals with the first steps in the usage of GRASS 6, with its powerful GIS Manager a...
I’m currently updating the site to the new version of Drupal, so sorry for any problem, it should be fixed in a few days, and I hope it will be better, too. ...
Some news from the IOSA team. I’ve been quite far from civilization in the last 30 days since I’ve been in Crete doing archaeological research (of course) wi...
An new, good guide to the databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL and other) with OpenOffice 2.0. Some problem with the language: it’s only translate in italian! Someon...
NRDB is a free database (Licence GPL) and mapping application for developing and distributing environmental databases. Its aim is to provide people in develo...
The Blender Foundation is pleased to announce that the Blender Conference 2005 will be taking place at De Waag in Amsterdam, the Netherlands from October 14-...
On this site you will find areas to learn more about visualization approaches, free software, a gallery of images created by the Science Museum of Minnesota ...
The Arc-Team website is online. You should give a look at it because there are lots of documents about the use of open source software in archaeology, in Eng...
A site about the open speleo. An new resource for the knowledge. More information at URL: http://www.ribaldone.altervista.org/grotte/index.php.
Just released; a version with over 5 months of development on new features and fixes. The most noteworthy additions are the Soft Body system, the new increme...
KPovModeler is a modeling and composition program for creating POV-Ray(TM) scenes. It is based on the KDE graphic libraries.and of course there’s only a GNU/...
Milan 20, May 2005: at Sun Microsystem (Viale Fulvio Testi, 327), will be deliver a lecture on OpenOffice. Will be the first italian conference on OpenOffice...
DBDesigner 4 is a visual database design system that integrates database design, modeling, creation and maintenance into a single, seamless environment. It c...
It seems to me I’m always late… I missed another important piece of news. On May, 3rd, at the Architecture University of Turin, Italy, a Blender Conference w...
Shame on me, I didn’t notice this important meeting! The CAA 2005 Conference was held in Tomar (Portugal) 21-24 March 2005. The home page can be found on htt...
It is very easy to add new QGIS-GRASS modules and it would be nice to have as many modules as possible in the coming 0.7 release. Radim would like to invite ...
The “Journal of Intercultural and Interdisciplinary Archaeology” (Acronym: JIIA) is an online serial publication on archaeology, antiquity sciences and archa...
GIS-Knoppix is a bootable Linux CD with pre-installed GIS software. It is based on Knoppix. It can be very useful for classes without a working Linux install...
Web3D is to 3D what W3C is to the Web. The X3D ISO standard defines a runtime system and delivery mechanism for real time 3D content and applications runnin...
After a long series of release candidates, the much anticipated 1.0.0 version of PostGIS has been released. The 1.0.0 version includes substantial changes ov...
Thuban is an Interactive Geographic Data Viewer with the following features: Vector Data Support: Shapefile, PostGIS Layer Raster Data Support: GeoTIFF Lay...
The new version has a bunch of new features, enhancements and more. They are so much I can’t even think of posting them all here. A complete list of all chan...
JGrass is a free java based GIS being developed to bring Grass up-to-date as it were, and facilitate its use among a larger number of GIS professionals using...
GPS Manager (GPSMan) is a graphical manager of GPS data that makes possible the preparation, inspection and edition of GPS data in a friendly environment. GP...
Sidora, Open Source Software for Archaeology, presents an Archaeological Information System made for archaeological recording. This brand new website can be...
A very interesting article (in italian) about Open Access Archaeology, featuring lots of links to useful websites. Read this article on www.jiia.it”.
no updates here since years… what’s going on? in the last few days I just spent hours configuring my brand new UbuntuLinux at home! tomorrow we’re going to s...
2005-Mar-21 - Version 3.2.0 is out. The primary purpose for version 3.2.0 is to add support for ALTER TABLE ADD COLUMN. Version 3.2.0 also fixes an obscure ...
Happydigger is a program which can be used for cataloging archaeological finds. It is intended both for semi-professional use and by amateurs (e.g. metal det...
Wings 3D is a subdivision modeler inspired by Nendo and Mirai from Izware. It is possible to assign materials, vertex color, UV coordinates and textures, bu...
It is a free (licensed under the GNU GPL) CAD system and high level development tool for engineering, Computer Aided Design and Product Modeling application...
Panorama Tools is a free program which can be used to generate, edit and transform many kinds of panoramic images. Its main functionalities are…
JPatch is a spline based 3D modeling tool (a patch modeler). It can be used to create 3D models for POV-Ray or RenderMan® compatible renderers (e.g. Aqsis).
Media Innovation Unit organizes a course on geographical information systems (GIS) using exclusively free software, with particular reference to GRASS. the l...
11 Mar 2005 Version 3.1.4 and 3.1.5 Released Version 3.1.4 fixes a critical bug that could cause database corruption if the autovacuum mode of version 3.1.0...
OASIS (Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards) is a not-for-profit, international consortium that drives the development, conve...
After more than two years of development the first official release of the next generation implementation of GRASS has been published.
19 Feb. 2005: is out the new version of SQLite. SQLite is a small C library that implements a self-contained, embeddable, zero-configuration SQL database eng...
yesterday we worked the whole day and set up four computers. now there’s only one left to configure and the hardware part is done. we’re doing some trashware...
User-friendly Desktop Internet GIS. UDIG is an open source spatial data viewer/editor, with special emphasis on the OpenGIS standards for internet GIS, the W...
EPOCH is a network of about a hundred European cultural institutions joining their efforts to improve the quality and effectiveness of the use of Information...
The CAA UK chapter is intended as a forum for national research in the area of archaeological computing and quantitative methods. The chapter meeting aims to...
The Ure Museum of Greek Archaeology at the University of Reading is developing a Virtual Lightbox for Museums and Archives (VLMA), an RDF-driven visual colle...
The OpenSceneGraph is an OpenSource, cross platform graphics toolkit for the development of high peformance graphics applications such as flight simulators, ...
well today I switched the site’s theme to spreadfirefox, a nice and tableless, XHTML Strict compliant, PHP template. it looks fine tough it’s still a beta ve...
The PostGIS 1.0 release candidates do not work with QGIS 0.6. A patch is available for those that want to use PostGIS 1.0 and build QGIS from source. You can...
The third (and hopefully final) release candidate is now available, with bug fixes from RC2. Issues with Mapserver and other third-party software connectivit...
This site represents an attempt to build a complete index of Open Source / Free GIS related software projects. The effort has some way to go, especially for ...
Weka is a collection of machine learning algorithms for data mining tasks. The algorithms can either be applied directly to a dataset or called from your own...
Stereo is an accurate 3d measurement software for large (gray-scale tiff / targa) stereo images, in order to produce CAD drawings, comparable with Photomodel...
Scilab is a scientific software package for numerical computations providing a powerful open computing environment for engineering and scientific application...
Scanalyze is an application for viewing, editing, aligning, and merging Laserscanner data. It has been developed and continuously improved from the Computer ...
SalStat is an application design for the analysis of scientific data. It can perform a range of tests already, from descriptive statistics through to analysi...
GpsDrive is a car (bike, ship, plane) navigation system. GpsDrive displays your position provided from your NMEA capable GPS receiver on a zoomable map, the ...
well next monday my lessons restart… they’re the last lessons for my 3-years degree (or what else it is..). so i’m also starting to work on my thesis, which ...
passed greek 25/30. not so good, but it’s gone and that’s what counts. yesterday I went to a local Linux User Group, it was the first time for me. they were ...
A LinuxJournal article by R. Kludt and Markus Neteler A description of an archaeology project making use of the freely available geographic information syst...
What’s New in 8.0 Win32 Native Server This is the first PostgreSQL release to natively run on Microsoft Windows as a server. It can run as a Windows service...
PostGIS adds support for geographic objects to the PostgreSQL object-relational database. In effect, PostGIS "spatially enables" the PostgreSQL se...
this presentation by Francesco Potortì explains very well why free software is a natural choice in a research environment.
openformats.org is a collaborative documentation project on the definition and use of open formats and public standards, and related technical, economical an...
SVG is a language for describing two-dimensional graphics and graphical applications in XML. SVG 1.1 is a W3C Recommendation and forms the core of the curren...
PNG is an extensible file format for the lossless, portable, well-compressed storage of raster images. PNG provides a patent-free replacement for GIF and can...
The Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. (OGC) is a non-profit, international, voluntary consensus standards organization that is leading the development of stan...
Inkscape is an open source SVG editor with capabilities similar to Illustrator, CorelDraw, Visio, etc. Supported SVG features include basic shapes, paths, te...
The objective of the Free Open Source IDAMS (OpenIDAMS) project is to produce, keep up-to-date and disseminate a free open source software package for data m...
The OpenScience project is dedicated to writing and releasing free and Open Source scientific software. It’s a group of scientists, mathematicians and engin...
Walldrawer - an easy alternative to on-site wall drawing for archaeology. This software aims at putting together the tools needed to produce scaled, rectifie...
This is a presentation by A. Bezzi, et al for CAA 2004 (PDF - 4.6 Mb). It describes very well how to perform every single step of archaeological research usi...
GDF Hannover (Gesellschaft für Datenanalyse und Fernerkundung) offers solutions for spatial data analysis and remote sensing. As an innovative and competent ...
The GNU Project was launched in 1984 to develop a complete UNIX style operating system which is free software: the GNU system. (GNU is a recursive acronym fo...
The Persistence of Vision Raytracer is a high-quality, totally free tool for creating stunning three-dimensional graphics. It is available in official versio...
Quantum GIS (QGIS) is a Geographic Information System (GIS) built for Linux/Unix, that works also on Windows and MacOS X. QGIS supports vector, raster, and d...
QCad is an application for computer aided drafting in two dimensions. With QCad you can create technical drawings such as plans for buildings, interiors or m...
Gstat is an open source (GPL) computer code for multivariable geostatistical modelling, prediction and simulation, and has been around from 1997. In the orig...
PostgreSQL is a highly-scalable, SQL compliant, open source object-relational database management system. With more than 15 years of development history, it ...
MySQL has become the most popular open source database and the fastest growing database in the industry. This is based on its dedication to providing a less ...
yesterday I passed my Anthropology exam, this means I’m 50% for this winter session. Just completed the italian version of the abstract for OSS2005.
Firebird is a relational database offering many ANSI SQL-92 features that runs on Linux, Windows, and a variety of Unix platforms. Firebird offers excellent ...
The new site is almost up, everything seems to be ok. Now I’m trying to collect a good number of weblinks, and obviously USERS! I’m also working on the abstr...
MapServer is an OpenSource development environment for constructing spatially enabled Internet-web applications. The software builds upon other popular OpenS...
The GNU Image Manipulation Program is a powerful, full-featured open source tool for image editing and processing.
This site hosts and supports various open source software projects related to remote sensing, GIS, mapping and advanced image processing.
R is “GNU S”, a freely available language and environment for statistical computing and graphics which provides a wide variety of statistical and graphical t...
Plot Digitizer is a Java program used to digitize scanned plots of functional data. Often data is found presented in reports and references as functional X-Y...
Driver ODBC (open source) for SQLite database.
Even metal detector users are running open source software! So why archaeologists should stay behind?Happydigger is a program which can be used for catalogin...
GRASS GIS (Geographic Resources Analysis Support System) is an open source, Free Software Geographical Information System (GIS) with raster, topological vect...
CAA is an international organisation bringing together archaeologists, mathematics and computer scientists. Its aims are to encourage communication between t...
Home page of C. Michael Burton, Professor & Curator of Archaeology/Ethnology. Here you can find some information on the use of GRASS GIS in archaeology.
Blender is the first and only fully integrated 3D graphics creation suite allowing modeling, animation, rendering, post-production, realtime interactive 3D a...
This journal was set up with the idea of publishing in an organic and systematical way the results of computerised research carried out in the field of histo...