Shawn Graham @electricarchaeo@scholar.social
digital archaeology stuff. electricarchaeology.ca. carleton u.
This morning I'm #reading @ryanfb on "Browsing With #Privacy in 2018"
Baumann, Ryan. “Browsing With Privacy in 2018.” Ryan Baumann - /etc (blog), 27 Jun 2018, https://ryanfb.github.io/etc/2018/06/27/browsing_with_privacy_in_2018.html (accessed 27 Jun 2018).
Zotero: https://www.zotero.org/users/465/items/YPGMPF82
RSS: http://ryanfb.github.io/etc/feed.xml
"This blog post is just a short note on how I’ve switched my web browsing habits in an attempt to regain some control over privacy."
This digital humanities, or as they call it, mobilized humanities, project uses web technology and research know-how to make the powerful point that our borders are everywhere.
https://www.wired.com/story/ice-is-everywhere-using-library-science-to-map-child-separation/
So I've added a new notebook to my OzGLAMWorkbench about getting data, images and OCRd text out of The Bulletin (or any other digitised journal) on Trove. No API for the journals, so a bit of scraping is required... https://github.com/wragge/ozglam-workbench/blob/master/Trove/Cookbook/Harvesting-data-from-the-Bulletin.ipynb I blame @Bonnie.
Coming later this summer...
New blog post: When Visual Chatbot is wrong, it just keeps digging itself a hole.
Visual Chatbot is so much fun.
http://aiweirdness.com/post/175110257767/the-visual-chatbot
The #bonetrade project has hit the ground running. See https://bonetrade.github.io/papers/ for pubs, codes, and slides - including upcoming Transatlantic Cultural Property Crime Symposium, 'fleshing out the bones: understanding the human remains trade using computer vision'
US concentration camps; naming & shaming corporate accomplices Show more
Did the tensorflow-for-poets image classifier tutorial. While I'm pleased I could get it to work, it's really amazing/frightening that it *does* work, and that I gave it categories. Behold, Romanpotbot:
Building your own image classifier of Roman pottery; or, another wild and crazy night in Electric Archaeology HQ: https://bonetrade.github.io/update/2018-06-14-tensorflow-for-poets/ and walkthrough: https://bonetrade.github.io/tutorials/tensorflow-for-poets/
Out Loud HSV's Academy summer semester has been announced: "in-depth educational programming for writers of all skill levels and styles."
http://outloudhsv.com/out-loud-academy/
Courses include: Adventures in Historical Fiction, In a Queer Time & Place, Reclaiming Our Narratives, Self-Publish and Sell, Worlds Within Worlds, Writing Against Fear, and Zine Making.
writing a remixable textbook for intro to digital archaeology.
using jupyter + binder to handle exercises, demos. Here's one in process of becoming for use with opencontext.org
On the trade in human remains, and some cnn for analyzing photographs re same
Paper I co-authored has just come out https://journal.caa-international.org/articles/10.5334/jcaa.13/
an experiment - a blank research compendium for your reproducible research needs, via jupyter + binder https://github.com/o-date/blank-research-compendium (using the excellent @benmarwick RRTools package) . Hit launch, then rstudio, edit rmd files accordingly; git to push your work back to your repo.
i don't suppose anyone has an example of a jupyter notebook set up to do photogrammetry from a folder of images?
Free posters on the do's and don'ts of designing for accessibility https://accessibility.blog.gov.uk/2016/09/02/dos-and-donts-on-designing-for-accessibility/ #accessibility #a11y #oer #onlinelearning See also https://community.canvaslms.com/groups/accessibility/blog/2018/05/08/how-to-fix-and-prevent-accessibility-issues-in-your-canvas-course
ZoteroBib is a new free service from the #Zotero team, that helps you quickly create a bibliography in any citation style
A very neat and well crafted service indeed, useful at all levels for #Academia and #Publishing routine work with #Citation #CitationStyles
I'm organizing a lecture series at Carleton University in the fall, 'Bad Archaeology - the use & abuse of archaeology & archaeological ways of knowing'. Speaker list is starting to shape up!
Writing for the multiverse in HTML.
https://inkdroid.org/2018/05/13/multiverse/
Or, some thoughts about writing on the web while reading @jr_carpenter's An Ocean of Static.
