I am pleased to announce the publication of issue 50 (yes 50!) of Internet Archaeology and it's a large thematic issue on "Big Data on the Roman Table: new approaches to tablewares in the Roman world". The theme is edited by Penelope Allison, Martin Pitts and Sarah Colley. Please feel free to share! Contents ======= An Introduction to a Research Network: the rationale and the approaches Penelope Allison https://doi.org/10.11141/ia.50.1 Form Follows Function. A new approach to determining vessel function Vincent van der Veen https://doi.org/10.11141/ia.50.2 Domestic Patterns of Tableware Consumption in Roman Celtiberia Jesús Bermejo Tirado https://doi.org/10.11141/ia.50.3 Calculating Liquid Capacity to Understand what could have been Consumed from 'Drinking' Vessels William Baddiley https://doi.org/10.11141/ia.50.4 The Uses of South Gaulish Terra Sigillata on the Roman Table. A study of nomenclature and vessel function Geoffrey Dannell https://doi.org/10.11141/ia.50.5 Pottery Function, Dining and Funerary Assemblages. A comparative study from northern Gaul Alice Dananai and Xavier Deru https://doi.org/10.11141/ia.50.6 From Table to Grave: Examining Table Settings in Roman Britain from Funerary Evidence Edward Biddulph https://doi.org/10.11141/ia.50.7 A Terra Sigillata Revolution? Terra sigillata consumption in first-century AD Roman Mediterranean Gaul Benjamin P. Luley https://doi.org/10.11141/ia.50.8 From the Spreadsheet to the Table? Using 'spot-dating' level pottery records from Roman London to explore functional trends among open vessel forms Michael Marshall and Fiona Seeley https://doi.org/10.11141/ia.50.9 Eating In and Dining Out in Roman Leicester: Exploring pottery consumption patterns across the town and its suburbs Nicholas J. Cooper, Elizabeth Johnson and Martin J. Sterry https://doi.org/10.11141/ia.50.10 Exploring Automated Pottery Identification [Arch-I-Scan] Ivan Tyukin, Konstantin Sofeikov, Jeremy Levesley, Alexander N. Gorban, Penelope Allison and Nicholas J. Cooper https://doi.org/10.11141/ia.50.11 Measuring Usewear on Black Gloss Pottery from Rome through 3D Surface Analysis Laura M. Banducci, Rachel Opitz and Marcello Mogetta https://doi.org/10.11141/ia.50.12 Building an Ontology of Tablewares using 'Legacy Data' Daniël van Helden, Yi Hong and Penelope Allison https://doi.org/10.11141/ia.50.13 Classifying and Visualising Roman Pottery using Computer-scanned Typologies Jacqueline Christmas and Martin Pitts https://doi.org/10.11141/ia.50.14 Multivariate and Spatial Visualisation of Archaeological Assemblages Martin Sterry https://doi.org/10.11141/ia.50.15 Was there a Difference between Roman 'Civil' and 'Military' Samian (terra sigillata) Market Supply? Finding answers with statistical distribution analysis methods Allard Mees https://doi.org/10.11141/ia.50.16 Early Imperial Tableware in Roman Asia Minor: a perspective on the diachronic patterns and morphological developments Rinse Willet https://doi.org/10.11141/ia.50.17 How were Imitations of Samian Formed? Tino Leleković https://doi.org/10.11141/ia.50.18 Big Data Analyses of Roman Tableware: information standards, digital technologies and research collaboration Sarah Colley and Jane Evans https://doi.org/10.11141/ia.50.19 The Echo of Past Choices: The Roman dining table under twenty-first century scrutiny Steven Willis https://doi.org/10.11141/ia.50.20 -- Judith Winters Editor, Internet Archaeology http://intarch.ac.uk Open access publishing for Archaeology Department of Archaeology, University of York YO1 7EP, UK Twitter: @IntarchEditor Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/internet.archaeology *My working days are Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday* EMAIL DISCLAIMER http://www.york.ac.uk/docs/disclaimer/email.htm