Git: How not to learn it
There are some things that are great in theory. In practice, though…
It’s actually cool, too. I just need to learn how to use it.
Documentation: manual or digital?
It is 2018! Time to document our archaeological digs digitally, wouldn’t you say? We have it all: CAD to draw plans; GIS for maps; photogrammetry / structure from motion for 3D models and rectified photos; databases to connect all this with feature description… why use paper at all?
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Statistics in Archaeology: Why oh why?!
Why use such complicated stuff, which is concerned with numbers, probability, density, tests, and all that which we hated in school? Why oh why?!
Fact is, archaeologists produce huge amounts of data.
Structure from Motion demonstration
Some time ago, I made a speed video of a Structure from Motion process. It is still a valid and entertaining video.
Software-Archaeology
The well known Austrian information scientiest Gerhard Chroust wrote an article “Software-Archäologie: Eine interdisziplinäre Betrachtung” (“software-archaeology: an interdisciplinary view”) in which he compares the maintenance of software with archaeology. It is a kinda cool and funny article, really.