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  1. Nov 2016
  2. Oct 2016
  3. Aug 2016
    1. TWITTER_PAT=/Users/mwk/twitter_tokens

      on my machine, I had to set the twitter path in the R console; couldn't quite suss how this text document worked. So, what I used:

      Sys.setenv(TWITTER_PAT="/Users/shawngraham/twitter_tokens")

      which probably isn't a good place to keep the tokens, but that's where they went when I did the normalize thing above.

  4. Jul 2016
  5. Jun 2016
    1. access to data and information proactively disclosed by departments and agencies through a single, common online search tool

      one stop portals - hmmnm. better to have a well documented API, with 'recipes', tutorials and guidance on how to query it.

    2. he Government will create a simple, central website where Canadians can submit requests to any government institution

      Will this website be free of tracking or analytics? Right now, an ATIP request requires a simple email. Why not ditto for personal info?

    3. to improve the Act in the near term

      I have an outstanding ATIP request that is almost exactly 2 years old now. Will the Government hire more people to process the request? Nothing I see here does anything to speed the process up. How does the government propose to deal with footdragging within a department reluctant to fulfil a request?

    4. Access to Information

      Part of 'access' must involve education, that is to say, to address the 'so what?' question. What shall people do with this data? A csv dump is fine: how do you educate citizens about what to do with this data? Data hides as much as it reveals.

    5. Access to Information

      Part of 'access' has to address the end-point. The distribution of access to the web is patchwork in this country, especially in rural areas. Will this mean things like support for local libraries? Despite years of acknowledgement of the importance of access to the web, we are still locked with telecoms that make access prohibitively expensive.

    1. But King wasn’t interested in talking. “I haven’t engaged the provenance questions at all,” she said. What she did know, she’d already reported in her 2014 Harvard Theological Review article. “It’s all out there,” she said. “I don’t see the point of a conversation.”I told her I’d spent months reporting in Germany and the United States. Didn’t she want to know what I’d found?“Not particularly,” she said. She would read my piece once it was published. What interested her more were the results of new ink tests being done at Columbia.

      Without provenance, there is absolutely no reason whatsoever to believe anything King says about the parchment.

      The lack of interest in provenance is what enables the trade in illicit antiquities to continue unabated.

  6. May 2016
    1. Jones's work, in particular, demonstrates that the experience of authenticity is fundamental to heritage management and conservation and that there are issues to resolve (Jones, 200947. Jones, S. 2009. Experiencing Authenticity at Heritage Sites: Some Implications for Heritage Management and Conservation. Conservation and Management of Archaeological Sites, 11(2):133–47. doi: 10.1179/175355210X12670102063661[Taylor & Francis Online]View all references: 141–43).

      contrast with: https://hyp.is/AVSqo9ZlFtPwhMO7Dnqf/www.ctheory.net/articles.aspx?id=519

    2. here has been much recent discussion about the nature of authenticity—how it is something that is constructed, informed by the relationship between people, places, and things, rather than an intrinsic, ‘material’ property (Jones, 200947. Jones, S. 2009. Experiencing Authenticity at Heritage Sites: Some Implications for Heritage Management and Conservation. Conservation and Management of Archaeological Sites, 11(2):133–47. doi: 10.1179/175355210X12670102063661[Taylor & Francis Online]View all references, 201048. Jones, S. 2010. Negotiating Authentic Objects and Authentic Selves. Beyond the Deconstruction of Authenticity. Journal of Material Culture, 15(2):181–203. doi: 10.1177/1359183510364074[CrossRef], [Web of Science ®]View all references; Holtorf, 201340. Holtorf, C. 2013. On Pastness: A Reconsideration of Materiality in Archaeological Object Authenticity. Anthropological Quarterly, 86(2):427–43. doi: 10.1353/anq.2013.0026[CrossRef], [Web of Science ®]View all references).
    3. . Latour and Lowe (201156. Latour, B. & Lowe, A. 2011. The Migration of the Aura, or How to Explore the Original through Its Facsimiles. In: T. Bartscherer & R. Coover, eds. Switching Codes. Thinking Through Digital Technology in the Humanities and the Arts. Chicago & London: The University of Chicago Press, pp. 275–97.View all references: 282) introduced the notion of version n as ‘the original’ and n + 1 as ‘a mere copy’. In practice, we will also find (n + 1) + 1, copies of copies, and n + 1b and upwards (subsequent copies from the same original mould), and n + 2 (different copying events) and other variations.

      graph all this...

    4. It is our contention that the optimum interest and value of archaeological replicas indeed lies in their appreciation as part of the composite, full biographies of the original and all its reproductions, and we suggest that there are two ways of exploring such biographies
    1. I meanthat the refabricated excavation will be both a geometrically and compositionally accurate reiteration. A heuristic rematerialisation through which the curious can explore iteratively, reflexively and extensively the disaggregation and recomposition of archaeological entities encountered through archaeological intervention in such a way as to engender a virtuous, multivalent cycle of recontextualisation, analysis and synthesis. In striving to meet this challenge one can envisage the discipline establishing elements of an exemplary platform for strategic innovation affording the development, and structured introduction, of novel and distinctly archaeological approaches to understanding archaeological entities.
    2. he long-term value of this proposal will emerge from the experiences researchers will gain during the mission to refine, or re-engineer, the processes of archaeological field recording so that excavations, contexts and assemblages could be refabricated in

      Observation: additive 4 right. b/c that would cause us to rethink the ways we break apart / build up archae knowledge

    3. What is to stop archaeologists from recording their excavations so that they could be refabricated in ways, for instance, that are not just synthetically haptic but authentically tactile, or perhaps made with the same material properties and characteristics and therefore also affording acoustic responses and auralisations? From a digital archaeology resource point of view, it would require prodigious amounts of computer processing power and storage, orders of magnitude greater than currently available (depending on the resolution we choose) not to mention the availability of versatile, multi-graded, multi-material fabrication units.

      Observation: additive3 printing out site in material that replicates literal granularity of context description; haptics, sonic, other qualities Resonance: Stu Eve's embodied GIS, phenomenology Crossref: JAMT 19 (4) pp. 582-600

    4. a radical new generative framework within which to recontextualise and reconsider the nature of archaeological entities specifically within the domain of digital archaeology

      Observation: keytheme2 The idea of 'generative' works on many levels here.

    5. n the end, however, the lack of definition about what it means to refabricate an archaeological excavation is the essence of the challenge: how do we characterise archaeological entities

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    6. oil scientists using a combination of Computed Tomography (CT) and 3D printing now have the ability to explore the intricate and detailed structures of soils, and set up multiple experimental investigations [39].

      check this out.

    7. full colour with functionally graded materials and microst

      -go back and remind yourself what the 3 stages in evolution of additive tech are - shape, to control of multiple materials, to control of programmability, what?

    1. Additive manufacturing poses a number of challenges to conventional understandings of materiality, including the so-called archaeological record. In particular, concepts such as real, virtual, and authentic are becoming increasingly unstable, as archaeological artefacts and assemblages can be digitalised, reiterated, extended and distributed through time and space as 3D printable entities. This paper argues that additive manufacturing represents a ‘grand disciplinary challenge’ to archaeological practice by offering a radical new generative framework within which to recontextualise and reconsider the nature of archaeological entities specifically within the domain of digital archaeology
  7. Apr 2016
  8. Mar 2016
    1. https://twitter.com/electricarchaeo/status/713549883186266112

      "...soundbashing gets us closer to the original messiness of data, and in its weirdness, undermines the authority of data visualization."

  9. Feb 2016
    1. OpenRefine will open in your browser,

      Sometimes, it doesn't. It will be running, but you will need to point your browser to this address:

      127.0.0.1:3333

      The 127.0.0.1 is your home machine (also known as localhost, while the :3333 is the port that open refine is serving up at.

    1. pip install requests pip install beautifulsoup4 pip install simplekml

      Some of my students were finding (chiefly on Windows machines) that they needed the -m flag, eg

      python -m pip install pymarc to call pip successfully.

    1. novice-friendly, peer-reviewed tutorials that help humanists learn a wide range of digital tools, techniques, and workflows to facilitate their research.

      Something that would be nice to have is perhaps a suggested progression or path through the tutorials towards different end goals.

    1. Lesson Directory

      For the complete beginner, I'd suggest the 'getting started with bash' lesson.

      Then, in other lessons, keep an eye out for assumptions about whether or not you're to work at the command line (windows), the terminal (mac/linux), whether or not you're supposed to invoke python etc.

    1. people

      What kind of people? Historians? Clearly. But given the kind of people you were discussing at the beginning of the article, I wonder if you can expand on the idea of perhaps citizen-scholars doing their own social media analysis on hashtags, events, of importance to their own communities. An opportunity for a kind of public-humanities/sociology? An opportunity for a more informed citizenry? Imagine for instance if some new social movement sweeps the country, and its activists take the time to analyze their own hashtag/presence on twitter, would it (could it?) change their tactics, strategy, outreach, etc....? just a thought.

      Great piece fellows! Look forward to seeing this coming out.

    2. were spam, or inflammatory, or something they regretted,

      This is a fascinating aspect to your data. I wonder if you can elaborate more on this, because surely this archival silence is a story in waiting. Does twitter eat the loser?

    3. importance of social media crawls.

      Extremely important. This point should perhaps be made more forcefully for the benefits of the historians amongst us who are dismissive of social media and its utility as a historical primary source...

    4. retweeted tweets:

      great to have this. what story do these most rt'd tweets tell? the four word clouds are brilliant at capturing the transition (although on election day, given that poll results were being made public in the east before polls closed in the west, i wonder if those tweets cease to be about 'the election' (the process) as the result. just a thought.

      The first four of the most retweeted tweets are from election day itself, projecting results etc (and the first one, that most photogenic of couples the Trudeaus). It might be more interesting (?) to know what the most RT'd tweets were up to the day before election day.

    5. deduplicated

      is it useful to explain what deduplicating is, or why there might be duplicate tweets in the first place? duplicates being the same as rts or something different? # of times rt'd is surely an important aspect of the data.

    6. python ~/git/twarc-report/d3times.py elxn42-tweets-combined-deduplicated.json -a -o embed -t local -i 24H > elxn42-times.html

      is it worth explaining what this line is doing? or presumably the audience is literate enough to decode this? I know I've always had a devil of a time getting twarc report to work properly, so this example is certainly handy for me.

    7. only publicly accessible tweets are hydrated

      I know that this is baked into the TWARC code, but it kinda sounds as if it's Ian and Nick who make this call. So there are ideas of good digital citizenship baked into the tool you use... which makes me wonder: if you were using something other than TWARC, would there be a significant different to your results? Or if the other tool was unethical in its treatment of the data presumably you'd be tainted by association. Hmmm. Does York and Waterloo have ethics board guidelines for social media search?

    8. Streaming AP

      I'm still not clear on what the difference is between the search api and the streaming api. Is there a way you can highlight the difference in a concrete way?

    9. everyday people

      Given that something approaching 50% of Canadians live in the five major urban regions, and internet connectivity & use in Canada is historically correlated with tertiary level education (http://www.statcan.gc.ca/tables-tableaux/sum-som/l01/cst01/comm35a-eng.htm), isn't there a chance here that 'every day people' might be a bit misleading? That the tweets map against the same demographic who read the Globe and Mail rather than the Sun, as it were?

      (I know that table is out of date, and perhaps there is better statscan data out there now. Perhaps this isn't an issue anymore. But it was a factor in our study from a few years back, so I thought I'd raise it here http://quod.lib.umich.edu/d/dh/12230987.0001.001/1:9/--writing-history-in-the-digital-age?g=dculture;rgn=div1;view=fulltext;xc=1#9.3)

    10. exponential increase in the amount of information generated, retained, and preserved from non-elite people

      What does 'exponential increase' actually mean though? In comparison to what? Isn't there research out there that gives a sense of what Twitter's demographic base is? Given that you've got the twitter stream data, and that some kinds of demographics can be inferred from the metadata (location, operating system / device as proxy for relative wealth etc)...?

    1. pip install pymarc

      Pymarc depends on someting called 'six'. If Six is not up to date, you can get an error, cannot import name python_2_unicode_compatible when you run import pymarc in the python interpreter or in your .py script.

      To solve this, try running 'sudo pip install --upgrade six`. On my machine, the six version was 1.4.1; upgrading brought it to 1.10 and pymarc worked.

      Windows: 'python -m pip instal --upgrade six'

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