Excavating Government: Giorgio Agamben’s Archaeological Dig

Excavating the Hard Drive: Archaeological Research, XML, and 3D Graphics

Whether running custom or commercial software, computers play an increasingly important role in the recording of textual, graphic, and spatial data on archaeological excavations. However, the data are often compromised by the proprietary formats in which they are stored. Such formats are not archival, and they pose problems for information retrieval. The problems are surmountable within the con...

Archaeal Viruses, Not Archaeal Phages: An Archaeological Dig

Viruses infect members of domains Bacteria, Eukarya, and Archaea. While those infecting domain Eukarya are nearly universally described as "Viruses", those of domain Bacteria, to a substantial extent, instead are called "Bacteriophages," or "Phages." Should the viruses of domain Archaea therefore be dubbed "Archaeal phages," "Archaeal viruses," or some other construct? Here we provide documenta...

To dig or not to dig.

Pietro Giorgio Lovaglio

In this paper we propose a methodology for the estimation of Customer Satisfaction (CS) conceived as a Latent variable (LV) specified in the American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI) structural model. The current proposal puts forward: the approaches of structural equations based on LISREL (Joreskog, 1978), since it involves the dual problem of indeterminacy of the latent scores and the norma...

The DIG Description Logic Interface: DIG/1.1

This document describes a simple API for a general description logic system.