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.
