Academic Article
An open system for textual, visual, and bibliographic resources: the Open Digital Archaeology Hub
- Title
- An open system for textual, visual, and bibliographic resources: the Open Digital Archaeology Hub
- Date
- 2025
- Volume
- 36
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 455-468
- Language
- eng
- Abstract
- The Open Digital Archaeology Hub (ArchaeoHub) is a modular and extensible platform developed within the H2IOSC project to support the aggregation and dissemination of digital archaeological resources. Conceived as a metadata aggregator rather than a repository, it integrates textual, visual, and bibliographic data from diverse sources, including the journal «Archeologia e Calcolatori» the BiDiAr bibliographic platform, and the DHeLO web app. Its structure is based on a hub-and-spoke model, designed to enable thematic collections organised around geographic entities, using Pleiades identifiers and WebGIS technologies to enhance discovery and contextualization. ArchaeoHub promotes interoperability through standards such as RDF, Dublin Core, and JSON-LD, and supports linked data connections with external resources. It offers scholars and institutions a lightweight, FAIR-compliant environment to access and cross-reference data. A key feature is its integration with BiDiAr, a curated bibliography of digital archaeology structured through Zotero, enabling citation tracking and semantic classification. The platform exemplifies a shift from static repositories to dynamic, research-oriented infrastructures aligned with national and international best practices. Positioned within the broader landscape of digital heritage infrastructures, ArchaeoHub serves as both a scholarly resource and a methodological prototype for managing complex00 archaeological information in a collaborative, open-access framework.
- Zotero References Collection
- https://www.zotero.org/groups/5293298/bidiar/collections/NZV6DT2F
- Cites
- 30 anni di Archeologia e Calcolatori. Tra memoria e progettualità
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ArchaeoHub homepage. -
The collections currently available on the ArchaeoHub website. -
Conceptual map showing the interactions between the ArchaeoHub and its respective data sources. -
Map view of all the items currently available on the ArchaeoHub. -
Screenshot of an article record in ArchaeoHub, with its corresponding bibliographic entries in the BiDiAr Zotero library. -
Example of the same record from the BiDiAr website (currently under construction with Omeka S) and its relations with the BiDiAr Zotero library.
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