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Among the goals of the ARIADNE project (a digital infrastructure for archaeological documentation), two interrelated objectives are the design of new services (or the integration of existing ones) and the implementation of an intense training & hands-on program. Especially in the case of visual media (which are evolving at an impressing pace) services should be paired by user consultation and training, since a pre-requisite of any service activity is to consolidate knowledge on the potential of new media and the impact those could have in the selected discipline. The latter is the main objective of the TNA training program and of other user consultation events that have been organized in the first 18 months of the ARIADNE project. This short contribution presents the results of this activity and our plans for the design of new services.

If citation is a common practice for publications, it is relatively new for data especially in SSH. This paper will present the work carried out during the SSHOC project about data citation in general and more precisely how to make them actionable. International audience

This deliverable describes the activities carried out during the three editions of the Summer School "Design of Archaeological Datasets", hosted by the partner CNR - ISTI (NeMIS Lab) and reports the results achieved, relying on the feedback given by the students at the end of each edition of the courses. The feedback questionnaires completed by the attendees are reported in appendix. In the EC Surveys all the participants expressed an overall appreciation of the course between "Good" and "Very good". Students globally expressed satisfaction for the scientific contents of the school, appreciating the outlines of the Semantic Web architecture, metadata structure and database design. Most of them declared the course provided a broader and clearer picture of the Information Technology aspects and tools available to design the data collected in archaeological research.

Visual data are nowadays a basic component of the massive data gathered in archaeology. With the term visual data we mean any visual representation that could be associated to an artwork, architecture or site, to describe its shape in terms of visual and geometric elements. Therefore, different representations are included: 2D images (standard images, panoramic images, Reflection Transformation Images - RTI), 2D graphical representations such as maps or drawings (usually represented by standard digital image files), 3D models (either sampled or reconstructed with modelling systems) or finally videos (grabbed from reality or computer animations). In the framework of the ARIADNE project, we are focusing on the services that an infrastructure for archaeological documentation should provide for managing these media. Our first goal is to present to users the capabilities of current technology (both commercial tools and resources produced in few recent EU projects) and to understand how to map the real needs of the user community on existing technologies and potential services for production, sharing and visualization. Training is an important component of an infrastructure project, due to the many media available and the complexity of both mastering data creation/presentation and of understanding which media fits better the specific documentation or visual analysis needs. Our purpose will be to help our community in building a clear view of the affordances of particular genres of representations, clarifying their documentation potential and the possible limitations wrt. storing, discovery, accessing, connecting with other data, and rendering. Designing an infrastructure requires also focusing on configuration and/or development (e.g. customization to user needs of open source solutions and of academic prototypes developed by EU projects). Obviously, visual data cannot be treated isolated from the other data. Integration should be designed to allow advanced visual data creation and visualization to inter-operate with standard databases and repositories.