12 ppl attended

Agenda

1. Organisational matters 1.1. Update on the Twitter activities 1.2. Website update
2. Upcoming conferences, meetings and sessions 2.1. news on the two sessions at CAA international
3. Open exchange about activities and software updates 3.1. Little minions @SSLA 3.2 new developments / tools etc 3.3 news on the working group Ordination and chronology ?
4. Any other business?

1. Organisational matters

1.1 Twitter

• everything’s running smooth
• Aim to be locus of discussion is met
• Martin, Sophie and Zack prepare tweets
• everyone: please join in creating content: links, ideas, things to share, what ever you come up with! –> please share with Martin, Zack or Sophie

1.2 website

• Joe Roe’s update has been merged
• everything is functional
• some minor tweaks can still be added
• main purpose of switching was to facilitate adding and updating content
• anyone can join in improving: fork and make a pull request!

2. Upcoming Conference

• CAA 2021: workshop s31
  • 10 members
  • Petr, Clemens and Sophie developed a rough outline which will be fleshed out further
• CAA 2021: theoretical session s17
  • several submissions
  • review is in progress
  • will link nicely to workshop

3. Open exchange about activities and software updates

3.1. Little Minions, http://littleminions.link/

• working group:

  • Moritz Mennenga, Lower Saxony Institute for Historical Coastal Research, Germany
  • Ronald Visser, Saxion University of Applied Sciences, NL
  • Florian Thiery, Römisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseum Mainz, Germany

• Little Minion sessions (slides for presentation: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4575155) :

  • present little tools, programs, hard-ware devices, scripts that a digital archaeologists would create to make life easier in the digital workflow
  • aims:
    • Research Software should be made more visible
    • shared tools may help others (open source is preferred, but closed source is accepted!)
  • some examples of tools:
    • bibliography in Wikimedia Universe
    • text mining
    • meta tool for creating triples
    • 3D pottery documentation in the field
    • profilAAR
  • small prepared contributions and spontanous “stand up minions”

• discussion:

  • overlap of Little Minions with the aims of SIG SSLA:

    • most of the tools on the website are scripts, but not all
    • compatible philosophies (showing tools not just results, preferring open source)

  • Little Minions projects are already in Zack and Joes OpenArchaeo list

  • Little Minions remain open to non-scripting topics, but are happy to collaborate and support

  • how can we join forces and support each other? - CAA conference 2021:
    - SIG SSLA people can join Minion sessions spontanously (there is always time for spontanous contributions in the session) - advertise the other groups session in your session (and hope we don’t overlap)

    • CAA conference 2022:
      • create a session together
      • SIG SSLA people can present at Little Minions
        • a Minion talk is a lightening talk, it doesn’t count as a “full paper”, therefore it doesn’t “take away” a main-author slot
    • on our websites: Link to each other
    • A heartfelt invite to the members ofthe Little Minion group to join the SIG
      • a lot of the minion projects have QGIS-extensions and Python programming, expertise the SIG SSLA lacks atm

3.2 News

• Rstudio Visual Editor:
  • zotero integration is very easy. Type the @-Symbol and it will search your zotero - library and adds the reference to the bib-file in your project. Very efficient and easy to use.
  • doesn’t work in xaringian
  • adds markers to numbered headings, may surprise
• distill Rmarkdown template:
  • https://rstudio.github.io/distill/
  • looks very nice and much nicer than the usual html - output

3.3 news on the working group Ordination and chronology ?

• not at the moment, Martin vows to do something.

any other business?

• no other business.

next meeting

2021-05-07, 5pm CET (=11am ET)