This past week I’ve been thinking more and more about issues of centralization and decentralization in terms of digital infrastructure. My thinking about these things are inchoate. Obviously, some of it stems from conversations about physical nodes in networks such as data centers, anxieties about the corporate organization of our online and interconnected digital world,… Read More →
Over the last year or so I’ve been trying to add a bit of analogue to my largely digital workflow. I’ve been thinking of it a bit like adding a tube-stage to a DAC, but unlike the largely impressionistic world of audiophile, there seems to be a growing body of research backing the idea that… Read More →
By the time you’re reading this, I’m winging my way to Cyprus via Minneapolis, New York, and Athens to the start of my summer research season. Like every year, when the dust of the semester settles, I start to see a bit more clearly the tasks that ahead of me. Cyprus comes first. We’ll spend… Read More →
On Friday, David Pettegrew and I are giving a paper titled “Convivial Survey and Publication of the Corinthian Countryside: Lessons Learned from the Eastern Korinthia Archaeological Survey” in Seville, Spain (via Zoom). This will draw fairly heavily on a paper that we’ve prepared for the Journal of Field Archaeology. My responsibility for the paper is… Read More →
I read with some excitement the very recent article by Martina Cecilia Parini and Martijn van Leusen in the Journal of Field Archaeology titled “Analyzing Low-Density Assemblages from Fieldwalking Surveys: Hellenistic and Roman Land Use in the Sibaritide (Calabria, Italy).” The article is rich and complex like so much good methodological work is. The article… Read More →
One of the things that is increasingly discussed in archaeological literature and scholarship is the work necessary to turn field or legacy data into publishable data. Publishable data is not only documented with sufficient detail to be reused and evaluated, but also organized in such a way that it can serve as evidence for archaeological… Read More →
David Pettegrew and I are working to finish some revisions on our paper for the Journal of Field Archaeology’s 50th anniversary issue. Our paper (which you can sample here and here) benefited immensely (from our perspective) from the feedback of the three peer reviewers. In particular, they nudged us to tighten up our use of… Read More →
This has been a HECTIC week, but I think the rest of my semester should come into better focus from this point on. This past week I got three things more or less off my plate and it seems like as good a time as any to share them. Thing the First This past week… Read More →
The second part of our piece for the Journal of Field Archaeology’s 50th anniversary issue is a bit scrappier than the first, but I think it says many of the things that we want to say (even if the citations and some elements of emphasis remain unpolished). If you want some background to what this… Read More →
A few weeks ago, I was hard at work on a draft of an article for the Journal of Field Archaeology’s 50th anniversary. You can follow some of the article’s development by tracing the links in this post. The article, “Mobilizing the Archaeological Report for a Future of Reuse: Linked Open Data in the Scholar-Driven… Read More →
Yesterday, I started writing again after about two weeks of puttering around with other things. It was a bit like going on run after a few weeks away. It was painful and I was proud to avoid vomiting. That said, it wasn’t a good writing day. It was dutiful and not entirely unproductive. As the… Read More →
David Pettegrew and I are working on an article that we intend to submit to the Journal of Field Archaeology for its 50th anniversary issue. You can read our abstract here. The theme of this issue is “Looking to the Next Half Century.” We thought that we might use David’s soon to be published volume,… Read More →
As a bit of lark David Pettegrew and I submitted the following abstract to the Journal of Field Archaeology for their 50th anniversary volume. According to the call for proposals, they’re looking for papers that consider “what inspires researchers to do their best work?” The longer I spend in the field of archaeology, the less… Read More →
As readers of this blog probably know, I’m co-leading a session at the Alexandria Archive Institute’s NEH sponsored program, Networking Archaeological Data and Communities, this weekend. As part of that, I’ve been musing on publishing lately. I posted something yesterday related to publishing and something a couple months ago and something a few weeks before… Read More →
