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#Izitravelsicilia: A participatory storytelling project
No full textThe aim of this paper is to present the participatory project “Sicilia Beni Culturali” on the izi.TRAVEL platform, launched in May 2016and well known on social media as #iziTRAVELSicilia. Recognized as a facilitator of best practice digital promotion and valorization through storytelling and crowdsourcing culture, it has already involved thousands of people. With over 150 audio guides produced on the platform in just over a year, #iziTRAVELSicilia has become a real model of participation in co-creation of cultural values, by practicing the principles set out by the Faro Convention. In this paper we briefly present the project and the example of the Roman Villa of Durrueli and how this platform was and can be furtherused for the dissemination of existing 3D models and for new 3D models, such as those made by the USF - CVAST virtualization project in Sicily
Digital heritage dissemination and the participatory storytelling project #iziTRAVELSicilia: the case of the Archaeological Museum of Syracuse (Italy)
No full textThe aim of this paper is to demonstrate how the participatory and crowdsourcing project #iziTRAVELSicilia could be a key to the dissemination of 3D models on cultural heritage. This project has been recognized as a best practice both in territorial digital marketing and in digital promotion and valorisation through storytelling and crowdsourcing culture. #iziTRAVELSicilia has already involved thousands of people, producing more than 180 museum and tour audio guides. It has become a real model of participation in the co-creation of cultural values. In this paper we briefly present the project and the case of the Archaeological Museum ‘Paolo Orsi’ in Syracuse (Italy), as best practice on digital dissemination through platforms such as Google Street View and izi.TRAVEL itself, revealing how this platform has been already largely used for the dissemination both of existing 3D models and for new 3D models, such as those made by USF IDEx for the ‘Paolo Orsi’ Museum. Specifically, a collection of 26 ancient sculptures and artefacts has been virtualized via laser scanning and digital photogrammetry in a participatory experience of measurement science. The global dissemination of those 3D models through izi.TRAVEL’s platform and other alternatives platforms will represent a significant contribute to the digital accessibility of the Museum of Syracuse but also the starting point of a metrological 3D database of ancient Sicilian sculpture generated entirely crowdsourcin
Participatory storytelling, 3D Digital Imaging and Museum Studies: A case study from Sicily
No full textThe aim of this paper is to demonstrate how the participatory and crowdsourcing project #iziTRAVELSicilia can be a significant tool in the dissemination of 3D models on cultural heritage. This project has been recognized as a best practice in the co-creation of cultural value, both in regional digital marketing and digital promotion and valorization through digital storytelling and crowdsourcing the interpretation of cultural heritage. Since its inception, thousands of people produced over 180 audio guides for cultural heritage sites. In this paper we briefly present the project and the case of the Archeological Museum ‘Paolo Orsi’ in Siracusa (Italy), as better practice in dissemination of digitized cultural heritage through platforms such as Google Street View and izi.TRAVEL, which can be used to disseminate 3D models such as those made by USF IDEx for the ‘Paolo Orsi’ Museum
Chemical characterization of organic residues on Late Roman amphorae from shipwrecks off the coast of Marsala (Trapani, Italy)
Full text linkOrganic residues were extracted from thirty-three different types of Roman and Late Antique amphorae retrieved from underwater contexts in the custody of the Archaeological Museum “Baglio Anselmi” of Marsala in Sicily. The samples were analysed using GC-MS and 1H NMR, finding biomarkers of plant oils (including saturated and unsaturated fatty acids, alcohols and alkanes present in plant waxes) were identified in seven samples. The biomarkers for Pinaceae spp., used for making pitch, were identified in one sample. The results obtained shed light on the function of different types of North African amphorae, traditionally interpreted as containers for olive oil, wine and fish sauce, presenting new evidence to reassess the system of trade between Sicily and North Africa in Late Antiquity
3D imaging analysis and digital storytelling for promotion of cultural heritage: the school outreach project of Realmonte
No full textThis paper presents a work in progress carried out by the authors with the students of three high schools of Agrigento (Sicily, Italy) for the promotion of the cultural heritage of the city of Realmonte, near Agrigento. Through the combination of 3D imaging, storytelling and video production, the project aims to disseminate the knowledge about the archaeological site of 1st century AD Roman villa of Durrueli, the Italkali salt mines and the natural site of the Scala dei Turchi
Paleoproteomic profiling of organic residues on prehistoric pottery from Malta
Full text linkMass spectrometry-based approaches have been successfully applied for identifying ancient proteins in bones and other tissues. On the contrary, there are relatively few examples of the successful recovery and identification of archeological protein residues from ceramic artifacts; this is because ceramics contain much lower levels of proteins which are extensively degraded by diagenetic effects. In this paper, we report the results of the characterization of proteins extracted from pottery of the Maltese site of Baħrija, the guide-site for the Baħrija period (half of 9th–second half of eighth century BCE), recently identified as the final part of the Borġ in-Nadur culture. Proteomic data here reported confirm that one of the major issue of these kind of studies is represented by contamination of animal and human agents that may complicate endogenous protein identification and authentication. The samples tested included a small group of ceramic forms, namely three tableware and six coarse ware thought to have been used in food preparation and/or storage. In this context, the limited availability of paleobotanical and archeozoological analyses may be compensated by the outcomes of the first proteomics profiling which, even if obtained on a limited selection of vessels, revealed the centrality of wheat in the diet of the ancient community of Baħrija. The data have been deposited to the ProteomeXchange with identifier
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
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