Today, I’m happy to give you a “guest post” by Robert K. Englund, director of the excellent UCLA-Max Planck Institute for the History of Science Cuneiform Digital Library (CDLI) project which I reviewed earlier. In a highly interesting article by Azhideh Moqaddam describing the recent Jiroft discoveries (“Ancient geometry and “*Proto-Iranian” scripts, South Konar Sandal […]
Month: January 2010
Blind Report Writing Study Now Underway
Next weekend, three of our project participants will come together to undertake the “Blind Data Analysis and Report Writing Study.” Participants include practicing zooarchaeologists Justin Lev-Tov (Statistical Research, Inc.), Levent Atici (UNLV) and Sarah Whitcher Kansa (AAI). The aim of this study is to highlight the importance of publishing original datasets alongside syntheses, and most […]
User Experience Study, Plans for Year 2: Focus Groups and Technology Refinement
In Year 1 of our study of user experience with archaeological data sharing, we brought together a group of representatives from various archaeological “communities.” Focusing on communities rather than on specific projects, we hoped to identify the vast diversity of needs and concerns related to sharing archaeological content online. Based on discussions and feedback in […]
CNI Fall Meeting: Frischer video online
I’d like to follow up on the CNI (Coalition for Networked Information) Fall Meeting post of December 9. Bernard Frischer (Director, Virtual World Heritage Laboratory, University of Virginia) gave a plenary presentation about “Beyond Illustration: New Dimensions of 3D Modeling of Cultural Heritage Sites and Monuments.” It is now available online. More presentations from the meeting […]
Open access also means open for challenges
A recent report—thanks to Clifford Lynch via Melinda Burns—by Kathy English, The Longtail of News: To Unpublish or Not to Unpublish, draws attention to an old issue that is gaining new prominence: published content can be challenged but open-access and Google-indexed content brings even passages of material that was “obscure in practice” out into the […]