Sofia Pescarin

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Sofia Pescarin
Affiliation:	ITABC / CNR
Email:	sofia.pescarin@itabc.cnr.it
Phone:	+39 06 90625274
Homepage:	http://www.itabc.cnr.it/VHLab/

Sofia Pescarin is an archaeologist and specialist in GIS, landscape reconstruction, Open Source and Cultural Heritage. She is a researcher at the Institute of Technologies applied to Cultural Heritage of the National Council of Researches in Rome (CNR ITABC), in the Virtual Heritage Lab (VHLab), where she is responsible for CNR “commission module”: “Virtual Heritage: integrated digital technologies for the understanding, fruition, communication of cultural heritage through virtual reality systems” . She works in the field of ancient landscapes reconstruction through digital technologies and archaeological data publication over the web, being involved in many international archaeological projects. She obtained her bachelor’s degree in “Ancient Topography” and a PhD in “History and Computing” at the University of Bologna, Italy. Since 1996 she works in cooperation with the Visit Lab of CINECA Supercomputing Center of Bologna (IT) in the field of Virtual Heritage. She wrote the book “Rome: archaeological guide to the eternal city” and many articles on archaeological landscape reconstruction and web open-source approach to Cultural Heritage. She was the technical manager of the Scrovegni Multimedia Room for the Giotto's Chapel in Padova (IT), that won international prices such as E-content Award, 1st prize, category e-learning (2005). She is actually involved in Virtual Rome project: a VR webGIS open source project, on archaeological and ancient landscape reconstruction and real time interaction (www.virtualrome.itabc.cnr.it).