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HESTIA2 – registration now open!
Herodotus by Skara Kommun Following on from the last post on this conference, the programme is now published and registration open. I will be speaking about geosemantic technologies in archaeology and...
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GIS training opportunity: Lancaster Summer School in Interdisciplinary...
Spatial Humanities at Lancaster Following on from their previous successful events (see here and here), the good folks in the Spatial Humanities team at Lancaster University are organising a GIS course...
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Linked Data vocabularies for cultural heritage
Linked Data cloud by Anja Jentzsch Colleagues from the Hypermedia Research Unit at the University of South Wales have been working hard on the Seneschal project of late (also see here for more info...
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Hestia 2 seminar – GSTAR presentation
I gave a talk on my PhD research (the GSTAR project) at the Hestia 2 event in Southampton last Thursday. Given I am still early on in the process, and having been asked to relate my work to the world...
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Some detailed modelling – archaeological excavation data
Pottery As part of my PhD research, the GSTAR project, I’ve been doing some more detailed work data modelling using the CRM-EH extensions to the CIDOC CRM, looking specifically at the concepts of...
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Day of Archaeology, 2013
Day of Archaeology, 2013 For the 3rd year running, I’ve blogged for the Day of Archaeology project, which is an amazing project, recording a snapshot each year of what archaeologists were doing on a...
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‘Between the Monuments’ at Avebury
The dig in the West Kennet Avenue, August 2013 It’s been almost a decade since I was last digging at Avebury as part of the ‘Negotiating Avebury‘ project, so it was lovely to be invited along with my...
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Digital Past 2014
Laser scanning a historic building The call for papers is now out for the Digital Past 2014 conference, now in its sixth year. Time really has flown since I was privileged to speak at the first...
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Archaeology Blogging Carnival for SAA 2014
An archaeology blogging carnival for SAA2014 Doug Rocks-Macqueen is running an archaeology blogging carnival to coincide with the 2014 SAA conference which features a Blogging in Archaeology session....
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Technology refresh; new smartphone
Phablets by Maria Elena It became apparent by late 2013 that archaeogeomancy communication tools needed updating. Working on my PhD and commercial contracts from all over the place and having access to...
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Blogging Archaeology: November
The first post in the Blogging archaeology blog carnival. Blog ideas by Owen W Brown Why blogging? – Why did you start a blog? I started my first blog in 2006. This was a rather unfocussed pile of...
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Heritage Vocabularies; widgets now available
Gear Wheels by freefoto Another step forward has just been announced in the world of digital heritage data mechanics. Forum on Information Standards in Heritage (FISH) Anyone who works with heritage...
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A consultation on the future of local government archaeology services
So many files, so little time… There is an ongoing consultation on the future of local government archaeology services, open till February 14th 2014. The text of the consultation, with some informative...
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First Birthday!
Birthday cake by Will Clayton Archaeogeomancy are pleased to be celebrating our first birthday this month! It’s hard to believe it has been a whole year since it all began, but LinkedIn confirms this...
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Archaeovision
Archaeovision In the wake of the first birthday celebrations, Archaeogeomancy are very pleased to announce a new venture: Paul Cripps is now a consultant for Archaeovision, a new company launched Q4...
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GSTAR: investigation of methods for working with geosemantic data,...
Mapping rubble by Brian Hoffman The first investigation in the GeoSemantic Technologies for Archaeological Research (GSTAR) research project is nearing completion, an assessment of approaches to the...
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Arches @ Google Summer of Code
Google Summer of Code 2014 Edmund Lee (Knowledge Transfer Manager at English Heritage) announced on the Antiquist list that the Arches project has been accepted onto the Google Summer of Code 2014....
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Linking Geospatial Data 2014
LGD14 Barcamp, featuring open plan space and beanbags. I was very pleased to attend this event co-organised by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) through the SmartOpenData project, the Open Geospatial...
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When Prehistoric Farming Begins: Kingsmead Quarry, Horton
Archaeological excavations in a quarry Whilst working for Wessex Archaeology, I was privileged to play a minor part in a project which, over the course of numerous seasons of excavation, has proven to...
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Towards a Collaborative Strategy for sector information management (TACOS)
Tacos I’ll be talking about geospatial topics relating to historic environment information management at this seminar on 14th May. Another classic title for the event, following up on the successful...
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