Research on archaeological practices and knowledge work in the digital environment @ EAA2018

at EAA 2018 24th Annual Meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists (September 5-8, 2018), Barcelona.

In spite of the rapid on-going introduction and development of digital tools and infrastructures for archaeological work, relatively little is known about how digital information, tools and infrastructures are used by archaeologists and other users and producers of archaeological information. Both archaeologists and researchers in adjacent fields from museum studies to ethnology, information studies and science and technology studies have conducted research on the topic but so far, the efforts have tended to be somewhat fragmented and anecdotal. Contributions are invited from researchers conducting evidence-based and applied research on archaeological practices, knowledge production and use in archaeology and other relevant disciplines including reflective and comparative studies of the use of different tools and infrastructures and their implications and consequences to how archaeological work is done and knowledge is produced both in professional and academic, and in community archaeology contexts outside of scholarly domain. The presented work can be based, for instance, on ethnography, case studies, literature reviews, focus groups, or questionnaire-based studies, or on reflexive reports of presenter’s own projects, which seek to examine the own practice critically by looking at roles of different participants/stakeholders, competencies and skills involved, methods, tools, and processes of working with information, knowledge and meaning-making with archaeological materials, either in academic and professional archaeology, or in community, creative, and cultural industry contexts.

Session is affiliated with the COST Action ARKWORK (http://www.cost.eu/COST_Actions/ca/CA15201).

Organisers: Isto Huvila (Uppsala University, Sweden), Rimvydas Laužikas (University of Vilnius, Lithuania), Costis Dallas (University of Toronto, Canada)

Time and place

ROOM: UB305
TIME: 16:30 – 18:30

Programme

16.30 Introduction. Isto Huvila, Department of ALM, Uppsala University

CANCELLED (16:30 ONLINE COLLABORATIVE PLATFORMS AND 3D VISUALISATION FOR INCREASED INTEROPERABILITY, INTEGRATION AND INTERPRETATION IN ARCHAEOLOGY
Galeazzi, Fabrizio (Department of Archaeology, University of York) – Jensen, Peter (Department of Archaeology and Heritage Studies, Aarhus University))

16:45 SHIPWRECKS IN PERIL: 3D MODELLING AS A RAPID RECORD FOR COASTAL ARCHAEOLOGISTS AND VOLUNTEERS IN CUMBRIA
Mason, Nick – Sherman, Andy (CITiZAN)

17:00 DISCUSSION

17:15 VISUALISING UNCERTAINTY – A RESEARCH PROJECT FOR KNOWLEDGE PRODUCTION THROUGH THE EXPLICIT REPRESENTATION OF UNCERTAIN KNOWLEDGE IN ARCHAEOLOGY
Lengyel, Dominik – Toulouse, Catherine (BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg)

17:30 AN EVALUATION APPROACH TO USERS EXPERIENCE AND PERCEPTION OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL INTERACTIVE 3D MODELS
Dolcetti, Francesca (University of York)

17:45 WHAT KIND OF ARCHAEOLOGY DO WE TEACH AND TO WHOM?
Sosic Klindzic, Rajna (Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences University of Zagreb)

18:00 DISCUSSION