5 ppl attended

Open exchange

• Recommendations:
  • A new book on network analysis in archaeology: https://book.archnetworks.net/
  • A didactic blog post on LLMs: https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2023/02/what-is-chatgpt-doing-and-why-does-it-work/
  • A new R package/framework to use R for web applications: https://docs.r-wasm.org/webr
• A number of important, geospatial R packages will be removed from CRAN, which has important implications for long-term reproducibility: https://r-spatial.org/r/2023/05/15/evolution4.html

SIG activities

• Joe Roe and Sophie Schmidt still plan to give a workshop about GitHub Actions, maybe in the context of the next CAA meeting
• Multiple SIG members participate in the CAA’s “Future conferences task force”, that was created to improve the annual meetings
• Joe Roe hosts an element instance (https://chat.archaeo.social). He will create a workspace there for the SIG SSLA and we will migrate over from our Slack chat. Slack will be connected to this new environment through a bridge
• Sophie Schmidt will create a Mastodon account for the SIG to slowly retire our Twitter account

Next SIG Meeting: Wednesday, August 2, 2023

We will try to invite Matt Peeples to talk about Network Science in Archaeology (see above)