@jonny @pyOpenSci @MTL_ATC As for legit use cases not considered by creators, the vast majority of archaeology is done by government mandated commercial firms, operating on shoestring budgets in a broken system. They are members of the community who would really benefit from free software but not under terms afforded by non-commercial or other ethical licenses. Especially given their ambiguous role in evil uses of land -- saving cultural heritage while also sometimes enabling evil industries
@jonny @pyOpenSci @MTL_ATC The problem with these licenses is they are extremely vague. With JSON I'm referring to the line "The Software shall be used for Good, not Evil." and yet I guarantee you evil companies are using it. And bad actors will absolutely trample over a license and deal with consequences later. But I'm not even sure this applies to *research* software, which tends to be created for very niche purposes, often within the scope of a single paper or project with low reuse potential
@jonny @pyOpenSci my tentative(!) hot take of the evening: licenses aren't actually that important in research software? and ethical licenses (see slide from last month's @MTL_ATC discussion) are more about projecting an image and community values than having an actual effect? they can either impose restrictions on legitimate use cases or open the door to bad actors - if the code is reused at all, which almost never happens. So still useful but not in the way indicated at the link
@princetonupress There are some interesting comments below the Daily Nous piece. As a schol comm person, it's always interesting to see how different scholarly communities discuss these issues. I especially appreciate the philosophers debating the social ontology of journals.
📢 📢 📢 We have a session at the @CAA_int conference in Athens2025! 📢 📢 📢
Join us at #S52 , where we want to take a look at computational interface which empower archaeologists to conduct more reproducible, transparent, and efficient research. Do you use Application Programming Interfaces (#APIs), Command Line Interfaces (#CLIs) or Domain-Specific Languages (#DSLs) in your research? Have a look at our session (https://2025.caaconference.org/call-for-papers/session-list/#S52)! 🤗
Digital Lunch, 11 October, 1pm BST: Dr Piraye Hacigüzeller (Antwerp) in the DAH Lab, G/60 & online:
Language Matters: Language Acts, Materialisation of Typological Placehoods, and a Datafied Future Risking “More of the Same”
@gvwilson You might be interested in Bonnie Nardi's work on end-user programming (https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/1020.001.0001) and ethnography of use of spreadsheets (https://doi.org/10.1016/0020-7373(91)90040-E). Both are a little old but still relevant, in my opinion
@borisanthony Oh um I guess you're right about mermaid support. Though it may be possible to convert between graphml and mermaid? In general yed is really good for transforming between different ways of visualizing entity relationships, which is why I brought it up
@borisanthony I'm pretty sure yEd can do this. A bit clunky but it's such a comprehensive piece of software https://www.yworks.com/products/yed
@adr Unless it's not feasible to have people install software. And it's been ages since I set things up but I forgot that you still have to install latex which is shockingly massive, so maybe not actually be a great idea after all
@adr maybe get everyone to install vscode/codium and associated latex extensions. It's cross platform, and I dunno if it's actually possible to do this, but you may be able to share entire workspaces configurations for a uniform classroom setup
@The_BFOOL Not all-encompassing, but these deal with some aspects of apple's history and might lead to other sources
https://annamancini.substack.com/p/how-the-apple-archive-ended-up-at
https://cabel.com/2024/05/16/the-forged-apple-employee-badge/
The Archaeology Data Service is expanding, and leading a consortium which is setting up a new Heritage Science Data Service.
A total of eight new posts have been advertised, including a data standards officer, digital archives supervisor, collections development manager, applications developer, and systems manager. Closing date for applications is 18th October 2024.
For details, see https://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/news-events/launch-of-hsds/
#archaeology #digitalarchaeology #digitalhumanities #archives #heritage #JobAlert
@berangere444 @admin You can check the status of archaeo.social services (existing and future) here: https://status.archaeo.social/status/all
Our next meeting takes place
on 📢 *Wednesday, October 2nd at 5 PM CEST* 📢 .
We've got a lot of things we can talk about: The TFQA Project 🏗️ , the list for Software Funding Opportunities we started 📝 , the CAA Athens Session ⚠️ and the new Open-Access Collection (https://diamond.open-archaeo.info) 🤯 . Of course and as always there will be time for discussion about new developments in Scientific Scripting 🤓 , interesting papers 📰 🧐 and noteworthy projects 🤩 !
We are looking forward to seeing you! 🤗
New paper is finally out -- the first of a few deriving from my dissertation! It articulates the role of informal communication styles in archaeological knowledge production, and how they complement more formally structured documentary media
New paper: Informal communication and archaeological data work https://blog.zackbatist.info/2024/10/01/new-paper-informal-communication-and-archaeological-data-work/
@dsalo I really hope 404's new science journalism column will turn out ok. They brought on the journalist from when they were all back at motherboard, who has a tendency towards sensationalism and promoting borderline pseudoscience