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Crowd Sourced Funding of Archaeology
I have written about crowd sourcing a couple of times here and here and here. Sometimes a bit skeptical as I am not sure how much it differs from traditional methods of raising funds for archaeology. Though skepticism aside archaeology does need funding. If you have a chance you can check out two new projects […]
Posted in: Wildcard
Good News for Open Access
March 11, 2013
Just saw this on twitter and followed the link- The Society for Cultural Anthropology (a section of the American Anthropology Association) is excited to announce a groundbreaking publishing initiative. With the support of the AAA, the influential journal of the SCA, Cultural Anthropology, will become available open access, freely available to everyone in the world. Starting […]
Posted in: Publishing
Journal Access and Continual Professional Development
March 6, 2013
A project I have been working on for the last couple of months just went live an hour ago, it’s one of the reasons my posting here as been so erratic. I have been working on creating a service to provide continual professional development and it even comes with access to research journals. Over the […]
Posted in: Wildcard
Analysing and visualising the ceramiscene of Roman Nepi
February 28, 2013
One of the last CAAUK videos, one on GIS too: Ulla Rajala (University of Cambridge) Philip Mills (University of Leicester) This paper builds on the theoretical tools labelled the ‘ceramiscene’ in Mills and Rajala (2011a). This is a means of characterising a ceramic landscape utilising a hierarchical version of the elements (Nodes, Pathways, Edges, Districts […]
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Practical Augmented Visualization on Handheld Devices for Cultural Heritage
February 27, 2013
One of the last presentations from CAAUK: Giovanni Murru, Marco Fratarcangeli and Tommaso Empler (Sapienza University of Rome) We present a framework for the interactive 3D visualization of archaeological sites on handheld devices using fast augmented reality techniques. The user interface allows for the ubiquitous, personalized and context-aware browsing of complex digital contents, such like […]
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Archaeology CVs / Resumes for New Archaeologists (and the old too)
February 26, 2013
Occasionally, I post some advice on how to write a CV for archaeology jobs. Well, just a few days ago Chiz posted an article he wrote in 2010 about archaeology CVs (British CV e.g. same as North American Resume): Traditionally-formatted CVs look great and they work well for traditional industries, but for archaeological jobs the […]
Posted in: Archaeology the Profession
CRM Arch Podcast
February 25, 2013
Yesterday, I had the great privilege to participate in the second CRM archaeology podcast. It had many great participants: Serra Head- Archy Fantasies, Russell Alleen-Willems- Diachronic Designs, Bill White – Succinct Research, Eric Kansa – Open Context, and Chris Webster-DIGTECH LLC Some great discussions about “do developers hate archaeology?” and Open Access. It you get […]
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- “The currency of the hobby is permission” acagle
- High definition sourcing sharpens understanding of the past Past Horizons
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