Practical authorship in archaeological information work

Isto was participating in the annual Organisational learning, knowledge and capabilities (OLKC) 2015 conference hosted by the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Milan, and presented a paper based on the material collected as a part of the ARKDIS project titled AUTHORSHIP, PRACTICAL AUTHORSHIP AND DOCUMENTARY BOUNDARY OBJECTS IN ARCHAEOLOGICAL INFORMATION WORK that discusses the  making of the social landscape of archaeological work and how different types of authored artefacts like reports and archaeological data are a part of that process of making. Slides and a pre-version of the paper can be found at http://istohuvila.se/node/436

An interesting curiosity was that a part of the sessions of the conference were held in an underground lecture theatre that happened to incorporate elements of a earlier structures found on the site. I am just waiting for an archaeology conference to be organised in the same room.

ARKDIS at CAA 2015

Nicolò Dell'Unto closes his keynote.

Isto, Nicolò and Daniel from the ARKDIS project are participating in the Computer Applications and Quantitattive Methods (CAA) 2015 conference in Siena, Italy. There is a whole lot of interesting things going on from archaeological information management to 3D and predictive modelling (to mention a few themes) at the conference. You can find more information about the programme and presentations on the web at the caaconference.org or e.g. on Twitter by searching for hashtags #caa2015 and #caasiena.

Activities involving ARKDIS researchers include

• Keynote by Nicolò dell'Unto “The Use of 3D Models for Intra-Site Investigation in Archaeology”
• Session: Towards a Theory of Practice in Applied Digital Field Methods by James Stuart Taylor and Nicolò Dell’Unto
• Papers
• GIACOMO LANDESCHI, NICOLÒ DELL' UNTO, DANIELE FERDANI: A vector-based pipeline for assessing visibility: a 3D GIS perspective
• NICOLÒ DELL' UNTO: Using different eyes: the case of the medieval Cathedral of Dalby ISTO HUVILA, DANIEL LÖWENBORG, LISA BÖRJESSON, BODIL PETERSSON, NICOLÒ DELL’UNTO, PER STENBORG: What is archaeological information? 
• Poster: Isto Huvila: Chatting #fieldnotes : rethinking notetaking workflows in field archaeology