Description (eng)
Data set on the Roman sites of the Area of Interest (AOI) of the PhD project "Roman Rural Landscapes in Noricum" by Dominik Hagmann. The dataset is based on fundamentally revised and modified queries of the archaeological site database ("Fundstellendatenbank") of the Austrian Federal Monuments Office. The sites were defined based on findspots by applying a geostatistical method, using the "Density-based Spatial Clustering of Applications with Noise" algorithm (DBSCAN; after Ester, M., Kriegel, H.-P., Sander, J., & Xu, X. (1996). A density-based algorithm for discovering clusters in large spatial databases with noise. In E. Simoudis, J. Han, & U. Fayyad (Eds.), Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (pp. 226-231). AAAI Press. https://aaai.org/Papers/KDD/1996/KDD96-037.pdf), implemented in QGIS software (https://github.com/qgis/QGIS-Documentation/blob/master/docs/user_manual/processing_algs/qgis/vectoranalysis.rst#dbscan-clustering), as a density-based data clustering method. Each site represents a corresponding number of find spots within a particular search radius. For the real-space location, the findspots were matched with the OpenStreetMap dataset (OSM, obtained from https://download.geofabrik.de/).