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archeoViz newsletter #17. March 2025

Dear subscribers to the archeoViz newsletter,

This is the 17th archeoViz newsletter, including news and updates about March 2025. The main news regards the addition of concepts from the PACTOLS controlled vocabulary for archaeology in the archeoViz-related HAL records.

Feel free to submit us any questions and suggestions about the archeoViz and the archeoViz Portal, possible datasets for application, and people or projects likely to be interested (write to: archeoviz-maintainers@services.cnrs.fr).

All the best,
Sébastien, with Anaïs & Élisa

The archeoViz Portal: additions and improvements

New instances

Two new instance were created and referenced on the archeoViz Portal:

Improvments of the archeoViz Portal

  • The monitoring of the use of archeoViz instances catalogued in the archeoViz Portal has been significantly revised and improved. As a consequence, future statistics will be more reliable, but the record history has been reinitialised from March 2025.
  • The HAL platform recently made possible the use of the PACTOLS controlled vocabulary for archaeology. Consequently, we updated and enriched with PACTOLS concepts the HAL records concerning archeoViz instances referenced in the archeoViz Portal. Consider, for example:
    • the ‘CamiacarcheoViz instance, about a dataset including coprolites
    • the related HAL record now includes the PACTOLS ‘coprolite’ concept;
    • reciprocally, this HAL record can be retrieved from the PACTOLS thesaurus through the opentheso software (click on ‘display linked corpus’).

Publications and documentation

An archeoViz workshop will be held at the CAA 2025 Conference in Athens, on May 5 afternoon.

archeoViz newsletter #16 December 2024-February 2025

Dear subscribers to the archeoViz newsletter,

This is the 16th archeoViz newsletter, including news and updates from December 2024. The main news during this period is the prize which was awarded to archeoViz by the French Ministry of Research’s Committee for Open Science! (see the announcement)
This prize is intended to award not only a research software, but its community in general, including users, developers, maintainers. This is a great achievement for the archeoViz community, and a significant support to our initiative in favour of open science practices in archaeology.

Feel free to submit us any questions and suggestions about the archeoViz and the archeoViz Portal, possible datasets for application, and people or project likely to be interested (write to: archeoviz-maintainers@services.cnrs.fr).

All the best,
Sébastien, with Anaïs & Élisa

The archeoViz Portal
The archeoViz blog

The archeoViz Portal: additions and improvements

New instances

A new instance has been created and referenced on the archeoViz Portal:

  • CIMO, about Western Mediterranean Neolithic Impressed Wares

Updates

In addition, two instances benefited from significant updates:

Publications and documentation

archeoViz was presented:

  • 17 December 2024, at the TRACES laboratory (Toulouse, France)
  • 29-30 January, at the ACQuA conference (Nanterre, France), as a poster
  • 31 January 2025, at the TRAJECTOIRE laboratory (Paris, France)

In addition, archeoViz and the archeoViz Portal were highlighted

  • by the Institute for social sciences and the humanities (CNRS, French National Research Centre) (see the publication)
  • on Zdnet

Note that an archeoViz workshop will be held at the CAA 2025 Conference in Athens, on May 5 afternoon.

Improvements of the archeoViz application

Interoperable applications:

  • archeofrag is an R package for spatial and refitting analysis in archaeology. It is complemented by a graphic-user interface version, available online. This web application (which was already interoperable with archeoViz) has been recently updated and published as the archeofrag.gui package on the CRAN. The new version features significant improvements, offering much more flexibility and analysis opportunities.

archeoViz newsletter #15 November 2024

Dear subscribers to the archeoViz newsletter,

This is the 15th archeoViz newsletter, about November 2024. The main news this month is the prize which was awarded to archeoViz by the French Ministry of Research’s Committee for Open Science! (see the announcement)
This prize is intended to award not only a research software, but all its community, including users, developers, maintainers. This is a great achievement for the archeoViz community, and a significant support to our initiative in favour of open science practices in archaeology.

Feel free to submit us any questions and suggestions about the archeoViz and the archeoViz Portal, possible datasets for application, and people or project likely to be interested (write to: archeoviz-maintainers@services.cnrs.fr).

All the best,
Sébastien, with Anaïs & Élisa

The archeoViz Portal
The archeoViz blog

Publications and documentation

Improvements of the archeoViz application

Interoperable applications:

  • archeofrag is an R package for spatial and refitting analysis in archaeology. It is complemented by a graphic-user interface version, available online. This web application (which was already interoperable with archeoViz) has been recently updated. The new version features significant improvements, offering much more flexibility and analysis opportunities.

archeoViz newsletter #14 July 2024

Dear subscribers to the archeoViz newsletter,

This is the 14th archeoViz newsletter, about July 2024. The main news this month regards how datasets covering a surface (i.e. “sites” and “dates” datasets) are handled in the archeoViz Portal.

Feel free to submit us any questions and suggestions about the application and its interface, possible datasets, or people likely to be interested (write to: archeoviz-maintainers@services.cnrs.fr).

All the best,
Sébastien, with Anaïs & Élisa

The archeoViz Portal
The archeoViz blog

Publications and documentation

The 4-pages booklet has been updated.

archeoViz Portal: additions and improvements

New instances and datasets

This month, 3 new instances have been referenced on the archeoViz Portal:

  • FosSahul, a database of dates from Late Quaternary non-human vertebrate fossil records from Sahul
  • SahulArch-c14, a database of published radiocarbon ages for archaeological records from Sahul
  • Haristoy, presenting data from the notebooks of excavations made in this cave in the Basque Country in 1955-1956

Datasets spatial coverage

“Sites” and “dates” datasets include information about multiple sites, defining a surface on Earth. Consequently, a new feature on the archeoViz Portal makes it possible to display these surfaces. To activate it, click on “Show surfaces covered by the datasets”). Accordingly, the coordinates of the covered surfaces are now included in archeoViz Portal metadata.

Improvements of the archeoViz application

A forum has been created to discuss about the archeoViz application.

archeoViz newsletter #13 June 2024

Dear subscribers to the archeoViz newsletter,

This is the 13th archeoViz newsletter, about June 2024. The main novelty, this month, is the creation of a new category of archeoViz instances, about “dates” data sets – a very common resource in the archaeological practice.

Feel free to submit us any questions and suggestions about the application and its interface, possible datasets, or people likely to be interested (write to: archeoviz-maintainers@services.cnrs.fr).

All the best,
Sébastien, with Anaïs & Élisa

The archeoViz Portal
The archeoViz blog

The archeoViz Portal: additions and improvements

New instances and datasets

This month, 4 new instances have been referenced on the archeoViz Portal:

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archeoViz newsletter #12 May 2024

Dear subscribers to the archeoViz newsletter,

This is the 12th archeoViz newsletter, about May 2024. The main changes this month regard the number of new instances – no less than 5!
Other news and updates are presented by section below.

Feel free to submit us any questions or suggestions about the application and its interface, possible datasets, or people likely to be interested (write to: archeoviz-maintainers@services.cnrs.fr).

All the best,
Sébastien, with Anaïs & Élisa

The archeoViz Portal
The archeoViz blog

Publications and documentation

  • archeoViz and the archeoViz Portal were presented in a seminar at the University of Otago in Dunedin, New Zealand, the 15th May 2024.

The archeoViz Portal: additions and improvements

This month, 5 new instances have been referenced on the archeoViz Portal:

  • Semizbugu P1, a site surveyed in Kazakhstan
  • Semizbugu P5
  • Hoedjiespunt 1, a Prehistoric site in South Africa
  • PEPAdb, the Prehistoric Europe’s Personal Adornment database including 408 sites
  • BDA, the “Base de données archéologiques” database including 4946 sites:
  • Interestingly, these two instances (BDA and PEPAdb) are directly connected to the corresponding databases: consequently, updates in the databases are immediately visible in the archeoViz instances.

In addition, one instance has been updated:

  • Bastos, a prehistoric site in Brazil, was updated with 310 new objects from the 2023 excavation

archeoViz newsletter #11 April 2024

Dear subscribers to the archeoViz newsletter,

This is the 11th archeoViz newsletter, about April 2024. The main update of this month regards the range of statistical analyses that can be executed from archeoViz.

Other news and updates are presented by section below.

Feel free to submit us any suggestions about the application and its interface, possible datasets, or people likely to be interested (write to: archeoviz-maintainers@services.cnrs.fr).

All the best,
Sébastien, with Anaïs & Élisa

The archeoViz Portal
The archeoViz blog

Publications and documentation

  • archeoViz and the archeoViz Portal were presented at the Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology (CAA) conference, held in Auckland, 8-12 April 2024 in a communication entitled “Fostering field data publication in archaeology and paleontology through agile web visualisation: the archeoviz open source application and its web platform”
  • The 4 pages booklet, presenting archeoViz and the archeoViz Portal has been updated.

The archeoViz Portal: additions and improvements

This month, 2 new instances have been indexed on the archeoViz Portal:

In addition, the archeoViz Portal interface now distinguishes between datasets about remains and datasets about sites.

Improvements of the archeoViz application

Two improvements have been included in the “statistics” tab:

  • The variables to generate the cross-table can now be selected, making it more flexible and extending significantly the range of possible analyses.
  • Export to the shinyHeatmaply application has been added to produce interactive classification and heat maps.

archeoViz newsletter #10 March 2024

Dear subscribers to the archeoViz newsletter,

This is the 10th archeoViz newsletter, about March 2024. The main news of this month regards the addition of an “openness index” to describe the archeoViz instances referenced on the archeoViz Portal. Other news and updates are presented by section below.

Feel free to submit us any suggestions about the application and its interface, possible datasets, or people likely to be interested (write to: archeoviz-maintainers@services.cnrs.fr).

All the best,
Sébastien, with Anaïs & Élisa

Additions to the archeoViz Portal and Improvements

No new instance have been indexed on the archeoViz Portal this month. However, improvements of former instances were done:

  • archeoViz instances and datasets referenced on the archeoViz Portal are now described with an “openness index”, based on 5 parameters inspired by the FAIR and 5-stars principles:
    • Instance: the dataset can be explored through a specific archeoViz instance.
    • Reprocessing script: the code to prepare the dataset is published, providing transparency about the selection and recoding made on the original dataset.
    • Published dataset: the dataset is published on a public repository.
    • Open license: the dataset is under an open license.
    • Internal linking: visible records in the archeoViz instance are linked to their corresponding record in the public repository.
  • Reprocessing scripts have been added on Zenodo to already existing archeoViz instances (namely: Camiac, Erb Tanks, Amalda 1, Kieler 1).
  • The metadata have been completed and all indexed instances have now a handle identifier (aka DOI).

Indexation

archeoViz newsletter #9 February 2024

Dear subscribers to the archeoViz newsletter,

This is the 9rd archeoViz newsletter, about February 2024.
The main news of this month is definitively archeoViz‘s “background map” new feature to draw lines on the background of 3D and map plots. It makes it possible, for example, to display a map, as illustrated in the Poeymaü and INRAP instances. In addition, this new INRAP instance is the first example of an archeoViz instance where points represent archaeological sites (and not archaeological remains).

Other news and updates are presented by section below.

Feel free to submit us any suggestions about the application and its interface, possible datasets, or people likely to be interested (write to: archeoviz-maintainers@services.cnrs.fr).

All the best,
Sébastien, with Anaïs & Élisa

The archeoViz Portal
The archeoViz blog

Additions to the archeoViz Portal and Improvements

This month, we have no less thant 8 new instances deployed and indexed on the archeoViz Portal:

  • Les Plaints, a Palaeolithic site Switzerland
  • MO0306, a Woodland site in the USA
  • MO1374, a Woodland site in the USA
  • MO1375, a Middle Archaic site in the USA
  • INRAP, the distribution of the archaeological sites excavated by the French National Institute for Preventive Archaeology
  • Mutzig, a Palaeolithic site in Eastern France
  • Le Foulon, a Neolithic site in Center France
  • Kieler 1, block 3, a supplement to the ‘Kieler1‘ instance

These new instances include about 55,500 objects.

Indexation

  • The archeoViz package has been referenced by CAT OPIDoR, a catalogue of scientific numeric ressources.
  • The reuse of the INRAP dataset through the related archeoViz instance has be referenced on data.gouv.fr, the French agency for public and scientific data.)

Improvements of the archeoViz application

  • Drawing can now be displayed on background of the 3D and Map plots (using the ‘background.map’ parameter)
  • Metric unit can be defined with the new ‘unit’ parameter (one of: cm, m, km). It automatically determines the square size and the display of scale information.

archeoViz newsletter #8 January 2024

Dear subscribers to the archeoViz newsletter,

This is the 8rd archeoViz newsletter, about January 2024.
The main news of this month is definitely the integration of the archeoViz Portal dataset into the Openarchaeo web semantic platform! More info below.
Updates are presented by section below.

Feel free to submit us any suggestions about the application and its interface, possible datasets, or people likely to be interested (write to: archeoviz-maintainers@services.cnrs.fr).

All the best,
Sébastien, with Anaïs & Élisa

The archeoViz Portal: https://analytics.huma-num.fr/archeoviz/home
The archeoViz blog: https://archeoviz.hypotheses.org

Additions to the archeoViz Portal and Improvements

This month, we have 2 significant updates of datasets indexed on the archeoViz Portal and 1 addition:

  • the Grande Rivoire instance was updated thanks to Alexandre Angelin, from 34204 to 38847 objects!
  • Tesetice X08 was also udpated from 137 to 27091 objects, thanks to Peter Tóth
  • Tesetice T09-T10 is a new instance, including 5137 objects, thanks to Peter Tóth again.

Besides, the usage statistics of the archeoViz Portal have been restructured:

  • the “statistics” tab now displays two plots:
    • a plot about the use of “generic” archeoViz instances (instances related to each language)
    • a plot about the use of the “specific” archeoViz instances (instances related to each dataset)
  • Internally, the way the stats are generated has been revised, resulting in faster generation of the plots and requiring less computation.

Indexation

Thanks to Florian Hivert and Olivier Marlet, the catalogue archeoViz instances referenced in the archeoViz Portal can now be explored and queried through the Openarchaeo platform!
Openarchaeo is a semantic web platform for archaeological data, using cutting-edge technologies. It embedded including Sparnatural, a visual SPARQL query builder making it easy to query knowledge graphs.

Explore the archeoViz Portal catalogue on Openarchaeo!

Improvements of the archeoViz application

  • A north arrow can now be displayed on the “Map” and “Section” plots. Its orientation is controlled by the ‘grid.orientation’ parameter.
  • archeoViz v1.3.4 is now available on the CRAN.