Applications are invited for the above 80% FTE post, attached to the Oxford Roman Economy Project, a research project funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, to start on 1 October 2008, for two years. The postholder will provide administrative and research assistance to the Professor of the Archaeology of the Roman Empire and the Camden Professor of Ancient History. [read more...]

What kind of data sources, i.e. historic maps and engravings, aerial and terrestrial images or classic paintings, are available to address current day research objectives? [read more...]

In the EARSEL Symposium held in Bozen on June 1-6, 2007, a new Special Interest Group (SIG), on Remote Sensing for Archaeology and Cultural Heritage (Re.Se.Ar.C.H.) was launched. [read more...]

The Archaeology Data Service (ADS) has a vacancy for a Curatorial Officer for a fixed term of 9 months to cover a maternity leave, commencing August 2008. You should have a first degree and postgraduate qualification, at least one of which should be in archaeology, and you should possess an exceptionally high level of ICT skills.

Salary will be £21,681 per annum. [read more...]

Established in 1995, the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA) is an interdisciplinary research initiative within UCL specialising in emerging computer technologies in several disciplines which deal with geography, space, location, and the built environment. [read more...]

Dear Colleagues,

I will be grateful if you could please pass this PhD studentship information to any students who might be interested.

Details below:

EPSRC Industrial CASE PhD Studentship

School of Geography
Centre for Geospatial Science & Centre for Environmental Management with SciSys [read more...]

* When: Saturday 21st June 2008, 11am - 5pm
* Where: Trampoline Systems, 8-15 Dereham Place, London, EC2A 3HJ
* Map: http://tinyurl.com/58br3u
* Wiki: http://okfn.org/wiki/OpenVisualisation/Workshop [read more...]

Please join us on Friday, June 13th at 11:00AM for an open house at the El
Presidio of San Francisco. We will demonstrate the digital interpretive
trail created by the University of California, Berkeley class, Digital
Documentation and Representation in Archaeology. We will be walking
around the footprint of the 1790 fort and visiting El Polin Springs, home [read more...]

From the NEH: "The NEH's Office of Digital Humanities (ODH) recently launched a Humanities High Performance Computing (HHPC) initiative. As part of this initiative we're offering several grant programs and other opportunities to provide time on the U.S. Department of Energy's high performance computers, as well as grant money and training. [read more...]

# When: Saturday 24th May 2008
# Where: Trampoline Systems, 8-15 Dereham Place, London, EC2A 3HJ
# Wiki: http://okfn.org/wiki/OpenVisualisation/Workshop [read more...]

Creative Practice/Creative Research
Materiality/Process/Performativity

Symposium July 10-12 2008
York St John University [read more...]

"Digitizing Early Material Culture: from Antiquity to Modernity" will be held in conjunction with CaSTA (the Canadian Symposium on Text Analysis) 2008: New Directions in Text Analysis

University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, 16-18 October 2008

"Digitizing Early Material Culture: from Antiquity to Modernity" will feature guest speakers: [read more...]

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Wednesday 14 May 2008
9am-3pm (including refreshments. Lunch sponsored by LEICA Geosystems)

Design Centre, University of Birmingham
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What will you learn from this event? [read more...]

Join Paul Burrows' You Tube group for archaeology and heritage survey- post your videos, comment and discuss techniques.

http://www.youtube.com/group/3dlaserscanning

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3D Laser Scanning: an open, honest forum - feel free to comment. Regards, Paul

Of possible interest from across the pond. Seems ot me this picks up very stronly on the theme of scalable research that came up in last year's workshop.

All best,
Stuart

Social Explorer adds Census Maps and Data from 1790 to 1930.
. Now Provides Entire History of US Population Change from 1790 to
2000
. Over 3200 Maps and Thousands of Variables Paint a Picture of US as [read more...]

* Do you want to help shape the future of teaching and research with geospatial data?
* Are geospatial resources critical to your research or teaching?
* Is 'where' things happen important to you? [read more...]

The workshop will explore multi-disciplinary approaches to audio, acoustics, and sound design, in order to discover how current techniques and research might be applied specifically to heritage and related applications. The day will be followed by an evening sound tour of sites and installations around the city. [read more...]

All, [read more...]

This conference will be the first major European conference concerned with the use of Geographical Information Systems (GIS) in historical research. It follows on from a previous Historical GIS conference held at the Newberry Library, Chicago in 2004. [read more...]

A session at CAA2008, Budapest, Hungary [read more...]

36th Annual Conference on Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology

On the Road to Reconstructing the Past

Budapest, 2-6 April 2008

Invitation [read more...]

The 1st Annual Antiquist Workshop will be hosted at Southampton University Archaeology Department in April 2008. The purpose of the Workshop is to provide postgraduate students in Archaeological Informatics and associated disciplines with the opportunity to:

- Broaden their skill base with a short series of practical seminars focusing on real-world applications of IT in archaeology [read more...]

The VERA project invites you to a workshop entitled "Digital field recording and publication in archaeology" in the Archaeology Department of the University of Reading on the 6th of December 2007. [read more...]

I have just been forwarded the following email, which not only archaeologists may be interested in:

The Department of Archaeology and the School of Systems Engineering at the University of Reading (in collaboration with the School of Library, Archive and Information Studies, UCL) invite you to look at the website for the Virtual Environments for Research in Archaeology project (VERA) at [read more...]

This is an audio recording of the presentation 'Using GIS to Study Long-Term Population Change' given by Ian Gregory, Queens University Belfast, at the Methods Network expert seminar on history and archaeology: Virtual History and Archaeology (University of Sheffield, 19-21 Apr 2006).

Digital Classicist/Institute of Classical Studies Work in Progress Seminar, Summer 2007

Stuart Dunn (King's College London) [read more...]

I am currently in Edinburgh at the Methods Network workshop Space/Time: Methods in geospatial computing for mapping the past. We already had a lively discussion during the theme lecture
http://www.arts-humanities.net/event/105 [read more...]

We are using this thread to keep note of ideas and questions coming up during the two day workshop (Space/Time: Methods in geospatial computing for mapping the past) here in Edinburgh - you are welcome to join us, ask questions and participate!

Leif Isaksen is a Senior ICT Development Officer at Oxford Archaeology and Moderator of the Antiquist forum for ICT/Cultural Heritage. His interests lie in the challenges of integrating different representations of space and time, as well as issues surrounding the openness and accessibility of heritage information. [read more...]

The final reference in this paper is a relatively new focus for the arts and humanities, namely the use of grid computing and e-science related methods, themes which have particular relevance for subject areas that potentially deal with very high volumes of data. [read more...]

Lancaster University's Digital Humanities Initiative, in association with AHDS History, is running a two-day course on "Using Geographical Information Systems to research the past". The course is sponsored by the Economic and Social Research Council's Research Methods Programme who will be providing all tuition costs. [read more...]

Geographical Information Systems (GIS) are becoming increasingly used by historians, archaeologists, and others with an interest in the geographies of the past. To date take-up has been hampered by a lack of understanding of what GIS is and what it has to offer to these disciplines. [read more...]

Many excellent case studies exist of application of geospatial technologies in the archaeological and historical domains, and particular aspects of the subject have been examined in cross-regional and cross-methodological ways. [read more...]