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:
- Riparo Bombrini, about a Palaeolithic site in northern Italy.
- Les Rivaux, about a Middle Neolithic site in France.
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 ‘Camiac‘ archeoViz 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.