[Apologies for cross-posting]

Dear all,

I'm Domenico Giusti, a student from the Erasmus Mundus Master in Quaternary and Prehistory at the University of Ferrara.

Here few words about my background: I graduated in Conservation of Cultural Heritage at the University of Perugia with a degree in ethnography and museography. Then I worked some years with local ethnographic museums, specially dealing with cataloging, databases and other information technologies applied to cultural heritage, mainly using Free/Libre and Open Source software.

Since 2010, I'm following courses in Global Positioning System (GPS) and Geographic Information System (GIS) and I'm also very interested in themes like Open Knowledge and Science Commons.

In 2010 I decide to apply for the Cultural Fund of the University of Ferrara, a fund for cultural events and activities promoted by the student of the University of Ferrara, to have the opportunity to get some fund to organize a workshop on Free Software, Open Data and Open Knowledge in Archaeology. Then, I became the project manager of the GNewArchaeology workshop.

So I am glad to invite you to participate to the first GNewArchaeology workshop (and I hope it will not be the last one…)

# Website http://www.gnewarchaeology.it

# When/Where It will take place on the 13th - 14th October 2011 in Ferrara, Italy

# About The GNewArchaelogy – Free Software, Open Data and Open Knowledge in Archaeology workshop is part of a cultural project promoted and organized by the students from the University of Ferrara and funded by the Cultural Fund of the University of Ferrara, Italy.

These two days will be an opportunity for meeting and debating about the use and diffusion of free and open source software aimed at public institutions, particularly at archaeological research processes, such as open formats and archaeological data sharing.

Presentations of research projects and case studies, round-table discussions and tutorials about specific software are scheduled. The more technical and specific meeting will be preceded by introductive sessions to the free software addressed to everyone who is interested in and will include screening of documentaries, distribution of informative brochures and help for software installation.

The workshop is an occasion to develop links, connections, contacts, cooperation between students, professionals and working groups.

# How to participate Authors are invited to submit proposals on any aspect of using freesoftware in archaeological processes, creating, publishing and reusing open archaeological data.

Topics of interest are, but not limited to:

» Introduction to FLOSS

» FLOSS in archaeology (tools for storage and processing, analyzing, visualization...)

» Open geospatial data

» Semantic Web and Linked Open Data

» Open Science and Open Data in Academic Research

Various types of discussion are scheduled:

» long presentation session (60 minute)

» short presentation session (15 to 30 minute)

» round-table discussions, which intend to create a constructive debate between professional users of open source software and public as such as researchers, archaeologists and students

» tutorial: you can present your topics or projects doing pratical activities with a small group of people. The software required for your tutorial has to be communicate to the organization. We will try to organize before your tutorial a special session to explain how to install the software (if its required)

Important dates:

Submission deadline: September 22th, 2011

Notification upon acceptance and publication of abstracts: September 29, 2011

Workshop: 13th - 14th October, 2011

We are looking forward for your participation!

If you have any questions/enquiries/suggestion, please feel free to email us at info@gnewarchaeology.it

Best regards,

The GNewArchaeology team

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Università degli Studi di Ferrara