13 ppl attended
Open exchange
- A number of new people attended the meeting: Mathias Bellat, Lisa Steinmann, Julian Laabs, Andrea Titolo
- Various colleagues from France are in the process of creating a national CAA chapter
- Oliver Nakoinz announced that there will be a Mosaic summer school in Kiel 2024. Topic: Handling chronological data
- Zack Batist and Joe Roe shared a preprint about “Collaborative practices in an emerging community of archaeological software engineers”: http://zackbatist.info/openarchaeo-collaboration
- Zack Batist applied some major changes to OpenArchaeo and documented them in a blog post: https://blog.zackbatist.info/2024/02/02/pruning-open-archaeo
- Mathias Bellat asked the SSLA community for feedback on a data analysis script: https://github.com/Mathias75018/ML_article
- James Allison reminded us of the SSLA-co-organized EAA session “Applying Archaeological Research Software Engineering as Little Minions: Statistical & Computational Approaches to Daily Archaeological Tasks”: https://sslarch.github.io/sessions/eaa2024_session
- Sophie Schmidt made us aware of “tesselle”, a collection of R packages for research and teaching in archaeology: https://www.tesselle.org
- Thomas Huet has announced his plan to develop a project based on Python and Jupyter for Google Earth Engine (GEE), using the
eelibrary, to manage satellite imagery along with the extensive heritage places from the EAMENA database. The goal of this project is to train a Machine Learning model. He encourages community members interested in this initiative to contact him.
Organisation
- The SIG slack channel will be deleted next week on Monday, 12th of February. The new chat is at https://chat.archaeo.social with an invite-only room for the SIG-SSLA
- Brainstorming for external speakers we want to invite this year:
- Shawn Graham, LLM
- Jörg Baten, Archaeological data in Economic history (e.g. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-023-01700-y)
- Daniel Kondor, Population booms and busts (https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-023-35920-z)
- Nikolas Frerebeau, tesselle R packages (https://www.tesselle.org)
- Andrea Manica, pastclim R package (https://github.com/EvolEcolGroup/pastclim)
- Brainstorming for new group projects:
- Guidelines for newcomers? / FAQ / Mini blog posts
- Inspiration: https://jon-e.net/monsterdon
- Webpage that collates mastodon posts with a certain hashtag?
- Intro to computational archaeology textbook (e.g. https://o-date.github.io/draft/book/)
- A Playful coding introduction website for archaeologists (maybe using webR)
- Recover old archaeological software that is not maintained any more (e.g. https://github.com/sslarch/tfqar or https://github.com/kacebe/AtlantGIS)
- Organize a winter school together
- Guidelines for newcomers? / FAQ / Mini blog posts
