Promoting company

Ales, an in-house firm of the Ministry of Culture (MiC), is responsible for supporting the Ministry in its strategies for the protection and enhancement of Cultural Heritage, providing additional and complementary skills and developing synergistic initiatives to manage and promote Cultural Heritage also in the public-private sector.

Ales was assigned by the MiC General Secretariat to create the e-Archeo project, which has the aim of developing and implementing a multimedia and technological strategy for the enhancement of 8 archaeological areas throughout Italy, carried out in collaboration with several Italian universities and the CNR (Italian National Research Council).

Partners

The e-Archeo partnership’s main objective is to strengthen the capacity of government institutions, research bodies and creative industries to work together toward enhancing italian Cultural Heritage, sharing ideas and developing innovative and efficient working methods.

The e-Archeo partners have supported:

 

      • the development of a new and synergistic working methodology
      • the transfer of know-how and the application of innovative practices for multimedia enhancement
      • the implementation of the sharing of scientific data, both within and outside the partnership
      • the adoption of the Open Science policy

 

e-Archeo’s results are therefore reusable, transferable, updatable and they have a strong cross-disciplinary aspect. The results of the project’s outputs can definitely be shared at local, regional, national and transnational levels.

TECHNICAL AND SCIENTIFIC COORDINATION

e-Archeo design and implementation phases have been coordinated by a working group that supervised each of those scientific and technical aspects that made the initiative highly professional and of great communication impact.

The members of the working group are:

  • Carolina Botti, ALES SpA

  • Eva Pietroni, CNR ISPC

  • Francesca Ghedini, University of Padua

  • Sofia Menconero, consultant

DESIGN AND COORDINATION

CNR ISPC

With more than 180 researchers, technologists and technicians from different disciplines as well as a strong interdisciplinary approach, the Institute of Cultural Heritage Sciences (ISPC) is the CNR hub of research, innovation, training and technology transfer in the strategic area of Cultural Heritage; it is open to collaborating with networks of national and international experts.

For e-ArcheoISPC’s Digital Heritage Innovation Laboratory (DHiLab) conceived and designed the multimedia of the project for the 8 sites, and coordinated the executive management of all the communication outputs. It was responsible for defining the technical criteria to be followed in the virtual reconstructions, for in the scientific mapping of the sources and interpretive processes on 3D models, and for choosing the most usable and sustainable technological solutions for each archaeological site. Together with ALES and MiC, it identified the communication, interactive and narrative formats and, finally, the modalities for sharing data on open platforms, depending on their future reuse.

For the archaeological site of Cerveteri, given that the Institute has been carrying out research on that field for years, CNR ISPC contributed to the collection and processing of the available archaeological data, the multimedia design for the Museum of Cerveteri and the creation of different outputs.

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UNIVERSITIES

There are nine Italian universities involved in e-Archeo project, as well as the Italian School of Archaeology in Athens. They contributed to the collection and selection of scientific data already at their disposal, from previous projects or researches carried out by internal staff. They also supervised the multimedia content created by the publicly selected cultural industries. Finally, they produced some specific content and provided support and ideas on issues of their competence.”

Sapienza University of Rome

Department of History, Representation and Restoration of Architecture
The Department of History, Representation and Restoration of Architecture of the Sapienza University of Rome is involved in teaching and research activities, bringing together an interdisciplinary scientific community, as well providing available technical-scientific structures that make it an excellent place for theoretical and methodological research on architectural and archaeological heritage. It collaborated on the e-Archeo project for the coordination of executive production, in the field of virtual reconstructions and the mapping of the scientific back end.
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L. Vanvitelli' University of Campania

Department of Literature and Cultural Heritage
The Department of Literature and Cultural Heritage of the University of Campania has been carrying out research in Cerveteri for over twenty years and has been excavating in the necropolis of Monte Abatone for four years. For the project, e-Archeo provided the documentary basis for the virtual reconstructions of the Monte Abatone site (point clouds, 3D models, vector maps, graphic, photographic and archival documentation); it also took part in drafting texts for presentations intended for the public.
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Aldo Moro University of Bari

Department of Humanistic Research and Innovation
The Department of Humanistic Research and Innovation of the Aldo Moro University of Bari has been working on the e-Archeo project at the Egnatia site, where it has been carrying out systematic surveys of excavations in the city and reconnaissance in the territory since 2001. The research group made the documentation available, curated the storytelling and provided scientific support for the virtual reconstruction.
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University of Foggia

Department of Humanities
The Department of Humanities of the University of Foggia participated in the e-Archeo project for the part involving the Latin colony of Alba Fucens, in Abruzzo. In the Roman city, the University has been carrying out research since 2000 and archaeological excavations since 2007. The survey and analytical study of the monuments, the documentation produced, and the knowledge acquired, provide the basis for the new development project.
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University of Bologna

Department of History, Culture and Civilisation
The Department of History, Culture and Civilisation of the University of Bologna has a long tradition of scientific work in the Etruscan city of Kainua (Marzabotto, Bologna). The narrative content and virtual reconstructions for the e-Archeo project benefited greatly from the numerous archival and digital resources collected and processed by a team of experts who have been working on the site for decades with targeted research and enhancement projects.
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Federico II University of Naples

Department of Humanistic Studies
The Department of Humanistic Studies of the Federico II University of Naples has been carrying out intense research at the site of Elea-Velia, focused on settlement problems, the study of architectural repertoires and material culture. The Faculty of Humanistic Studies offered support for the e-Archeo project with scientific documentation and the development of narrative content, on some buildings related to the different phases of life in the city.
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University of Padua

Department of Cultural Heritage: archaeology, history of art, cinema and music
The Department of Cultural Heritage of the University of Padua participated in the part of the e-Archeo project that involved the Nora site in Sardinia. The Veneto University has been carrying out systematic archaeological research in the Phoenician-Punic and Roman cities since 1990, generating vaster and deeper knowledge, now made available for the new enhancement plan.
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University of Tuscia

Department of Human Sciences, Communication and Tourism
The Department of Human Sciences, Communication and Tourism of the University of Tuscia participated in the e-Archeo project by providing scientific materials for the Cerveteri site, where the University of Tuscia has been carrying out research since 1991 and, since 2018, has been excavating in the necropolis of Monte Abatone. It provided documentation for the virtual reconstructions of Monte Abatone and took part in drafting texts for presentations intended for the public.”
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University of Verona

Department of Culture and Civilisation
The Department of Culture and Civilisation of the University of Verona participated in the part of the e-Archeo project involving the two Roman villas of Sirmione and Desenzano on Lake Garda. More specifically, it handled documentation, storytelling and scientific support for the enhancement of the two complexes, using its own tools and the skills of an interdisciplinary research team.
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Italian School of Archaeology in Athens

The Italian School of Archaeology in Athens (SAIA) is the only Italian archaeological institution abroad, and falls under the direction of the Ministry of Education, University and Research. For e-Archeo, SAIA collaborated on the archaeological site of Sybaris for the scientific part of the data collected in the field.
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ACCESSIBILITY CONSULTANCY

The e-Archeo project took advantage of experts of accessibility, involved to validate the consistency of content, following the principles of Universal Design, and the compliance of the criteria for multimedia accessibility to the Cultural Heritage.

Omero State Tactile Museum of Ancona
Monica Bernacchia
Cristiana Carlini

LIS expert (Italian Sign Language)
Carlo di Biase

CREATIVE INDUSTRIES

The creative industries involved in the e-Archeo project are twelve. They have translated the project partners' needs into concrete products referring to the latest trends in digital communication and multimedia technologies.
This contributed to the creation of a “multi-channel” project, as well as to the innovation and contamination between different disciplinary sectors in the creative industries: from virtual reconstructions to “human interface” systems, to the accessibility of Cultural Heritage; from networked and geo-localised services to web design, podcasts with immersive sound narratives and film production.

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