Presentation by M.Stacca, M.Serlorenzi, V.Bo,I.Jovine, Sitar EAA 2014 session: Open Access and Open Data in Archaeology Istanbul, Turkey 13 September 2013

1. EUROPEAN ASSOCIATION
OF ARCHAEOLOGISTS
20° ANNUAL MEETING
ITU - ISTANBUL 10-14 settembre 2014
The Geographic Archaeological Information System of
Rome
between Intellectual Property Rights and
Privacy Protection Law
M.Serlorenzi V.Boi I.Jovine M.Stacca

2. The Archeological Geographic Information System of Rome
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A project of
Special Superintendence for Archeological Heritage of Rome
Ministry for Cultural Assets and Activities and for Tourism

3. STRONG POINTS
• The project is
published by a state
agency
• Is produced with public
funding
• Processes public data
SITAR Project: the presentation of data
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PURPOSE OF THE PROJECT
Producing a complete and
updated database of the
archaeological heritage of
Rome.
Certified by the Ministry of
Culture.
Useful for the urban planning
policies.

4. D.Lgs. 82/2005: CAD, DIGITAL
ADMINISTRATION CODE
D.Lgs. 36/2006: RE-USE OF DOCUMENTS IN
PUBLIC ADMINITRATION
D.L. 179/2012: Decreto Sviluppo 2.0
D.Lgs. 33/2013: RE-ORGANIZATION OF
REGULATION CONCERNING OBLIGATIONS OF
ADVERTISEMENT, TRANSPARENCY AND
PUBLICATION OF INFORMATIONS BY THE
PUBLIC ADMINISTRATIONS
Faro Convention (1948) ratified by Italy
27 FEBRUARY 2013
OPEN DATA FOR THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL HERITAGE PROTECTION
Italian Regulatory Framework
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A Public Data IS
"a data that everyone
can know"
"a data produced by public
administrations within
their institutional goals"
but also

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THE SITAR PROJECT AS A CULTURAL MEDIATOR
SITAR as a mediator between information of a specialist nature and civil society

6. The archaeological data fall within the category
of spatial data of general interest and they must
be shared with organizations in charge of the
management of the territory.
Direttiva 2007/2/CE INSPIRE
Infrastructure for Spatial Information
in the European Community
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7. SITAR CODE
OWNER AUTHORITY
MANAGING OFFICIAL
PROPERTIES REAL ESTATE
RESEARCH METHOD
START AND END OF RESEARCH
SCIENTIFIC TEAM
APPLICANT
RESEARCHER
WORK DESCRIPTION
ARCHIVE REFERENCES
DISTRICT
MUNICIPALITY
AREA
ADDRESS
GEO-REFERENCING CODE
GEO-REFERENCING METHOD
KIND OF REPRESENTATION
DATA PUBLICATION
LEVEL 1
The Origin of the Information
ADMINISTRATIVE DATA
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The Right to Information and the Respect for Privacy
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The “history” of the archaeological
investigation

8. SITAR CODE
OWNER AUTHORITY
MANAGING OFFICIAL
PROPERTIES REAL ESTATE
RESEARCH METHOD
START AND END OF RESEARCH
SCIENTIFIC TEAM
APPLICANT
RESEARCHER
WORK DESCRIPTION
ARCHIVE REFERENCES
DISTRICT
MUNICIPALITY
AREA
ADDRESS
GEO-REFERENCING CODE
GEO-REFERENCING METHOD
KIND OF REPRESENTATION
DATA PUBLICATION
LEVEL 1
The Origin of the Information
ADMINISTRATIVE DATA
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1
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The identity of those who produced
the archaeological record
The Right to Information and the Respect for Privacy

9. DATA PUBLICATION
LEVEL 2
The Archaeological Partition
SCIENTIFIC INFORMATION
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The Right of Authorship
SITAR CODE
RESEARCH METHOD
OBJECTIVE DEFINITION
SPECIFIC DEFINITION
INTERPRETATION’S DEFINITION
GEO-REFERENCING CODE
GEO-REFERENCING METHOD
KIND OF REPRESENTATION
DESCRIPTION
BUILDING TECHNIQUE
MAXIMUM ALTITUDE
MINIMUM ALTITUDE
CRONOLOGY
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Each partition is distinguished on the
basis of a criterion of chronological
and functional homogeneity

10. DATA PUBLICATION AND QUALITY OF PUBLISHED DATA
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The Ministry has established that the time to carry out this
control must not exceed one year after the end of the work in
the Archeological site.

11. DATA PUBLICATION
LEVEL 3
Archaeological Unit
SYNTHESIS OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL INTERPRETATION
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The archaeological units contribute
to the identification of historical
and topographic sets that have
formed the different historical
landscapes of the city and its
region.

12. DATA PUBLICATION E RAW DATA
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The digital copy of the
documents that constitute
the starting information
used to implement the
database is attached to each
record.

13. PUBLICATION LICENSE
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“Italian Guidelines for the
enhancement of public
information"
Supranational interoperability
and possibility of maximum
reuse of the data.

14. PUBLICATION LICENSE
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SITAR CODE
OWNER AUTHORITY
MANAGING OFFICIAL
PROPERTIES REAL ESTATE
RESEARCH METHOD
START AND END OF RESEARCH
SCIENTIFIC TEAM
APPLICANT
RESEARCHER
WORK DESCRIPTION
ARCHIVE REFERENCES
DISTRICT
MUNICIPALITY
AREA
ADDRESS
GEO-REFERENCING CODE
GEO-REFERENCING METHOD
KIND OF REPRESENTATION
LEVEL 1
The Origin of the Information
“To support the ARIADNE Project purposes and to
publicize the valuable informative heritage of its
Repositories, SSBAR will provide the shareable and
already available SITAR dataset related to the s.c.
ORIGINI DELL’INFORMAZIONE (in acronym OI), in
other words the “Information Sources” intended as the
georeferencing, administrative (with exclusion of the
natural or legal personal informations different from
scientific équipe persons; the real estate data; the costs of
interventions), methodological, temporal informations and
metadata, and short scientific references of each
archaeological research, preventive digging,
geophysical/geological survey, topographical study,
monograph research on a single monument, etc., carried out
in the territory of Cities of Rome and
Fiumicino, since about 1860 up to 2014”.

15. The adoption of this type of license
allows for derivative works
to preserve information
about the source
of scientific data.
PUBLICATION LICENSE
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LEVEL 2
The Archaeological Partition
SCIENTIFIC INFORMATION
The only
requirement to
cite the source at
the time of re-use
SITAR CODE
RESEARCH METHOD
OBJECTIVE DEFINITION
SPECIFIC DEFINITION
INTERPRETATION’S DEFINITION
GEO-REFERENCING CODE
GEO-REFERENCING METHOD
KIND OF REPRESENTATION
DESCRIPTION
BUILDING TECHNIQUE
MAXIMUM ALTITUDE
MINIMUM ALTITUDE
CRONOLOGY

16. www.facebook.com/pages/SITAR-Sistema-Informativo-Territoriale-Archeologico-di-Roma
you can access the SITAR WebGIS at
http://sitar.archeoroma.beniculturali.it/
http:// webgis.archeoroma.beniculturali.it/sitar/
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