Presentation 1: Facem: A Repository for Ancient Ceramic Fabrics from the Mediterranean
Speaker: Barbara Borgers
Barbara Borgers' research focuses on the cultural biography of ceramics. It explores how they were produced, traded, exchanged, and used. It covers the Bronze Age, Iron Age, the Roman era and Late Antiquity, in a geographical area stretching from central Europe to Jordan. In general, she seeks to answer key questions about knowledge transfer, social cohesion, and skill acquisition. More specifically, she considers technological variability in ceramics, adopting an archaeological science approach, and she examines the role of these objects in creating, maintaining, and displaying social identities in workshops, as well as in domestic, religious, and burial contexts. Her interest in digital archaeology focuses on a GIS database and the development of an advanced AI application to capture information from ceramics, such as morphology, composition, and fingerprints, for a variety of research purposes.
Presentation 2: Implementing the right IT solutions for your projects
Speaker: Raman Ganguly
Presentation 3: Data Flows Along the Danube: The Digital Development of The Danube Trade – From Past to Present
Speakers: Beate Pamperl, Peter Rauscher, Andrea Serles, Raman Ganguly
The project cluster "The Danube Trade", active since 2008, investigates key sources of Austrian economic history during the 17th and 18th centuries, with a focus on inland trade along the Danube. These sources have been systematically recorded in databases and are publicly accessible and searchable via the project’s official website. Additionally, the original documents have been digitized and published in cooperation with the respective archives through the Phaidra platform (Collection “The Danube Trade”).
