4 ppl attended
Recap: Noteworthy developments in 2024 in and around the SIG
- Change in chat software. We moved from Slack to https://chat.archaeo.social
- Invited talks. Nicolas Frerebeau introduced the tesselle R package suite in October: https://www.tesselle.org
- Emerging resources:
- A list for software funding opportunities: https://github.com/orgs/sslarch/discussions/52
- A list of Diamond Open Access journals: https://diamond.open-archaeo.info
- SIG Projects. Reviving old, archaeological research software with focus on the TFQA suite: https://github.com/sslarch/tfqar
CAA2025 conference
- It currently seems as if the SIG’s session on APIs and DSLs got enough submissions and will come together: https://2025.caaconference.org/call-for-papers/session-list/#S52
- The conference program is still unclear, but is currently announced to extend over five days (5-9 May)!
Ideas/Plans for the SIG in 2025
- Invited talks by Shawn Graham (already invited, needs scheduling) and Emily Coco (Sébastien Plutniak offered to ask her)
- Proposal by James Allison: Work committedly on the TFQAR project and present the progress in a session at CAA2026? Maybe with a focus on spatial data analysis.
- Bridge our Mastodon account to Bluesky and be more visible on social media: https://archaeo.social/@CAA_SSLA
- A new survey to optimize our meeting time (will be announced separately)
Various news
- The French CAA chapter is officially confirmed: https://caafrance.hypotheses.org
- Sébastien heard about ongoing work on reviving Le Stratifiant, a software tool for archaeological stratigraphy modelling: https://abp.hypotheses.org/files/2017/07/2010-actes-Vienne.pdf
- PhD Position in Oslo: https://www.jobbnorge.no/en/available-jobs/job/271130/doctoral-research-fellowship-in-archaeology
