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From: Katie Green <[log in to unmask]>
Date: 10 December 2013 15:29
Subject: 2014 Transnational Access Summer Schools
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ADS would like to inform you about an excellent opportunity from the ARIADNE project. As part of its Transnational Access (TNA) activities, the ARIADNE project is offering students and academic researchers the opportunity to apply to participate in several summer schools to carry forward their own research. Applications are welcome from individuals with a scientific interest and ability to benefit from training in archaeological research data management. Scholarships are also available and will be awarded on a competitive basis.

1. Summer school: Mapping existing datasets to CIDOC-CRM
Organizer: PIN; Venue: Prato; Period: 26-30 May 2014

Content: the school goal is to enable researchers and professionals to map their datasets to the CIDOC CRM standard, an exercise required to integrate them in a wider framework such as the ARIADNE one. The school will provide a summary background of CIDOC CRM (2-3 days) showing some case studies and some frequently used templates (e.g. for chronology, authorship, locations, etc.). The remaining days will be dedicated to developing the mappings of students’ case studies, which they will carry out under the supervision of specialists.
Pre-requisites: general knowledge of CIDOC CRM.

2. Summer school: 2D/3D documentation for archaeology
Organizer: ISTI-CNR; Venue: Pisa; Period: 23-27 June 2014

Content: The school aims at providing training and hands-on experience on the tools for producing and managing 2D and 3D documentation for archaeological purposes, both for objects and for monuments/sites, including the related visualization tools. The school will provide an introduction to the technologies and tools in the first 2-3 days and a hands-on activity in the remaining ones, organizing the students in small groups. It is expected that each student will bring her/his own research project, so that practice can be made on case studies of direct interest for the students.
Pre-requisites: Basic knowledge on the digitization process (3D/2D) and on sampled data processing.

3. Summer school: Design of archaeological datasets
Organizer: ISTI-CNR; Venue: Pisa; Period: 14-18 July

Content: the course aims at providing students with an introduction to metadata design for archaeological datasets, with perspective content provided as case studies by the students. The school will consist of some introduction lectures followed by hands-on seminars in which the design is developed by the students with the supervision of ISTI experts and then collectively discussed.
Pre-requisites: Basic knowledge of mark-up languages.

Each summer school is one week in duration, Monday to Friday. The fee for students at the Summer Schools is 500 euros and sponsorship is available for participation.  A maximum of 20 participants is planned for each summer school with 5-10 TNA students receiving funding from ARIADNE for each course.

ARIADNE TNA sponsorship includes a tuition fee waiver for the Summer Schools plus a bursary, the latter worth up to 800 euros per participant, to cover the cost of travel and accommodation. These will be awarded on a competitive basis, according to the procedure described in the application pack, on based upon the quality of the applicant, their proposed project, and their personal statement.

More information on the summer schools, the eligibility criteria and how to apply is available from the ARIADNE website http://www.ariadne-infrastructure.eu/Services/2014-TNA-call