Communicating Digital Archaeology
As we start the final portion of this course, please take a moment to skip to week 12 and note Options A and B for the completion of Consolidation III and the Exit Ticket.
Goals for this week
- explore how archaeologists communicate digital archaeology professionally
- reuse archaeological data from a research compendium
Listen
Read
- ‘The Numbers Don’t Speak for Themselves’ Draft chapter from Data Feminism by Catherine D’Ignazio and Lauren Klein link
- Ben Marwick, Carl Boettiger & Lincoln Mullen. 2018. Packaging Data Analytical Work Reproducibly Using R (and Friends), The American Statistician, 72:1, 80-88, link
- Perry, Sara, Roussou, Maria, Mirashrafi, Sophia S., Katifori, A., and McKinney, Sierra. 2019. Shared digital experiences supporting collaborative meaning-making at heritage sites. In Hannah Lewi, Wally Smith, Dirk vom Lehn, Steven Cooke (eds.), The Routledge International Handbook of New Digital Practices in Galleries, Libraries, Archives, Museums and Heritage Sites. London: Routledge. Pp. 143-156. link
- Strupler, N. 2021 Re-discovering Archaeological Discoveries. Experiments with reproducing archaeological survey analysis, Internet Archaeology 56. https://doi.org/10.11141/ia.56.6.
Each reading is ‘seeded’ with annotations by me; some of my annotations contain video from me directing you to pay attention to particular issues or ideas. Annotate anything interesting you find with Hypothes.is while logged into our reading group, keeping in mind what you’ve already heard/read.
A good annotation draws connections between what you’ve read and other things you’ve read/heard/experienced. I explicitly encourage you to connect what you read in this class with what you’re reading/doing in other classes. Also add anything you read or anything interesting you find to your Zotero library.
Do
I do not necessarily expect you to complete all of these, because you are all coming to this class with different levels of digital ability. These are listed in order of difficulty. Push yourself until you get stumped.
- Archaeology Data Service, how it makes data available, and a simple bit of code for getting that data into R
- Replicating others’ research, and research compendia
- Archaeologists teaching other archaeologists code
- Explore some archaeological projects on Open Context and see if you can download a csv of a project’s data. (See also their ‘data’ recipes). Using what you know about R, use our R Studio in the cloud to load the data in, and make some simple visualizations.
Record and Reflect
You may make your repository private or public.
If you make it private, make sure to ‘invite user shawngraham’ to your repository so that I may view it. (See the Github instructions for a reminder.)
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As you did for week one, make another notes.md entry and put it in your github repository for week 9.
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I am willing to bet that the idea of ‘replication’ has never cropped up in any of your other history or GRS classes. I want you to reflect on the readings and your work this week in the context of those other classes. What might all of this imply for you as history or humanities students? Discuss this in the context of your wins/fails for this week. Begin the reflection by quoting (w/ citation) one sentence from the readings that resonates with you: you don’t have to explain why, but you might select something that is personally meaningful, or leaves you confused, or makes you happy, or intrigues you to know more… etc. Put your journal entry in your repo.
Log Your Work
You can log the link to your repository on this form.