Copia

Estimating the survival of cultural heritage artifacts with unseen species models from ecology

Copia is a Python package that can be used for estimating the survival of artifacts from cultural heritage, based on established unseen species models from ecology.

Installation

Copia requires Python 3.6 or greater. To install Copia, execute the following command in your terminal:

pip install copia

Development

If you wish to help developing Copia, download the source files from GitHub and install the package using the following command:

pip install -e . 

in the top directory of copia.

Subsequently, run pytest from the same directory.

Documentation

For detailed documentation, visit copia.readthedocs.io.

Etymology

Because this package targets so-called "abundance" data from ecology, it has been named using the corresponding Latin term copia. The artwork for the logo has been kindly contributed by Dr. Lauren Fonteyn (Leiden University, NL). The depicted goat is a mythological reference to the cornucopia or "horn of plenty", the legendary horn of the goat Amaltheia, who fed the infant Zeus with her milk.

Maintainers

Mike Kestemont & Folgert Karsdorp