Fri 2 Jun 2006
Digging Digitally: SAA Digital Data Interest Group Blog
Posted by Matt under Archaeology , Web , Opensource
Thanks to Kris Hirst, at archaeology.about.com, for pointing out a new blog (Digging Digitally Blog) sponsored by the Society for American Archaeology (SAA) Digital Data Interest Group (DDIG).
The Digital Data Interest Group (DDIG) is organized to promote the preservation and sharing of archaeological data that are maintained in digital form.”
The DDIG group objectives include encouraging information and data sharing between researchers interested in sharing and preserving digital archaeological data, providing a forum for discussion of archaeological data sharing, and disseminating these data and ideas to the whole of the archaeological community.
The DDIG blog is directed by Eric C. Kansa and Sarah Whitcher Kansa of the Alexandria Archive Institute, makers of the Open Context, an on-line system for securing and sharing primary field data. Here is a brief post on Open Context, XML, and Tagging I wrote at the CAA conference in April.
The DDIG blog is a resource where DDIG members can post information on projects, news, and all things about digital data sharing. The initial posts include a great statement on politics and public access to archaeology, as well as, the announcement of BoneCommons, an Internet based forum for those interested in archaeozoology.
I look forward to reading future posts at Digging Digitally. This is a great group with objectives that I believe in whole heatedly. You might also notice that the DDIG blog creater has great taste in blog templates! Check them out…
4 Responses to “Digging Digitally: SAA Digital Data Interest Group Blog”
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June 2nd, 2006 at 9:34 am
did they copy the design of your blog or is this the default wordpress template for lazy people?
June 2nd, 2006 at 9:39 am
I would be quite flattered if they did copy my design! I think it is just a popular, but not default, template (for lazy people like me
). It has an archaeological feel to it.
June 2nd, 2006 at 11:48 am
Ha!
Maybe we all just have good taste!
I found this scrolling through the Wordpress template list and just swapped the banner. Anyway, thanks for the link and I’ll religiously follow this blog.
Best!
-Eric
June 7th, 2006 at 5:19 pm
[…] As an archaeologist, I have only a passive fascination with Neanderthal paleoarchaeology, but I am definitely tempted to join NESPOS just to play with the VISICORE suite of 3D GIS tool. Having scouted around a bit, I get the sense that the NESPOS is considering a limited form of public access to the Neaderthal database. As far as I am aware of, this project is the most advanced media and software enabled colobrative site going. As described by the site, a membership in NESPOS includes your own non-public data store. I assume this enables the user to store queries, notes, and favorte models and sites. Perhaps tagging is also invloved in this data store. As a comparitive project, although not Neaderthal specific, check out my post on the collabrotive archaeology data project at Open Context. […]