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Announcements, publications, communications from the world of SSLA

• research stipend by German Archaeologcal Institute for landscape archaeology, remote sensing etc: https://www.dainst.org/karriere/stipendien/noslug/136
  • will start in October
• Hackathon 30th June - 03rd July for bibliometric analysis on iDAIbibliographical data: https://www.dkz2r.de/events/2026-06-30_archaeoanalysis_hackathon/
  • there’s a data scientist to advise
  • catering will be great

topics about our website

• we have a sessions page on our SIG website: https://sslarch.github.io/sessions/
  • please everyone, if you did a conference session linked to the SIG in the last couple of years, have a look, whether your session is on there
  • if missing, add your session and do a pull request
• feedback from exchange at CAA international: “how to become a member” needs some rework (too wordy, maybe too complicated?)
  • add a tl;dr ?
  • add a “become a member”-button?
• idea: add a tab to the SIG website adding blogposts or teaching material directly
  • everyone present liked the idea
  • maybe we could dedicate a session every six months to blog post writing and then do a collaboratively speed blogging, like https://www.software.ac.uk/guide/speed-blogging-and-tips-writing-speed-blog-post
  • first ideas:
    • KlassificatoR - tutorial: https://gitlab.com/oliver.nakoinz/klassifikator -> add to documents (Sophie will check in with co-authors)
      • write blog post about the tutorial and link to it
    • possible blog post by Martin: decision between R and Python workflow for Bayesian analysis
• Matteo will have a look of how to implement the changes to SIG SSLA website
  • will create a pull request to website -> until next meeting in September

Summer break / after summer activities

• this was the last meeting for summer
  • no meetings in July and August
  • next meeting will be 4th September
    • topic: speed blog posts and planning meeting +
• reach out to Dries and other speakers in September again
• what topic would be interesting for the future
  • scripting for data management: pipelines from API to wrangling
  • show us your setup for scripting (little plugins/tools/… that make your life easier) as a show and tell (not as an invited speaker)

Show & Tell

• SeriARC: https://github.com/Archaeoscan/SeriARC
• idea adding 14C-dates to the parable of the correspondence analysis (old idea by Clemens)
• Martin: let’s do this in Bayesian -> BaySer: https://github.com/MartinHinz/bayser -> BaySer-Web: Web interface -> https://github.com/MartinHinz/bayser-web
  • limited CPU capacities, so use bayser locally if you need more computing power
  • check it out, would be good to be proof-read logically -> keep your eyes peeled for a paper

next meeting will be 4th September