La banca dati bibliografica degli anni Novanta. Dati quantitativi e analisi statistiche

Recent research work, carried out as part of the international project on ‘The History of Archaeological Computing’, jointly promoted by the Italian National Research Council and the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, has created the premises by which to publish online the database of the Bibliography of Archaeological Computing. The database was regularly implemented during the first ten years of publication of the international scholarly journal ‘Archeologia e Calcolatori’ (1990-1999), and covers a period ranging from 1989 to 2000. The dataset was revised and made available online in the ‘Virtual Museum of Archaeological Computing’, featuring more than 2,700 titles. Data structuring and updating led us to re-appreciate the analysis of the results, published for the first time in the tenth issue of the journal, by also linking the period under investigation with the achievements of the previous decades and anticipating the challenges of the years to come. This article sets out both the research work now being carried out to classify bibliographical information and the results obtained from the statistical analysis of the dataset.