It’s always a good week when something you’ve worked on finally makes its way into the world. This week, I’m happy to share two new publications. Both of which I’ve been involved in (in different ways and at different stages of my academic life). One takes us to the markets of the Moroccan High Atlas….
Last week, I went to the second DiKopA workshop in Darmstadt (I already teased). The theme? “Digital Competencies in Archaeological Disciplines.” Does that sound a bit unusual? Yes, but also: very relevant. For two days, the workshop brought together researchers, teachers, students, and technology experts to discuss archaeology and what we need to do to…
It is a bit short notice, but for mid-May we are organising a two-day DiKopA workshop on teaching and learning in archaeology in Darmstadt. We have organised one before, but this is the second one. I would like to share the now finalised programme with you and of course invite you to come and see…
I have a new publication (no, this time not about video games) that I co-authored a paper on the state of digital and computational archaeology (DCA) in Germany. I published the paper with my old colleague and friend Sophie C. Schmidt. The paper is published in the journal it – Information Technology and is open…
As I reported, the DiKopA network held a second Archaeogaming Hackathon in Darmstadt last February and we now have the results online. The two groups produced two unique Archaeogames based on the RPG Maker MV software, and you can play both of them directly in your browser. But before you head over there, let me…
At the end of last year I offered a first Archaeogaming Hackathon in Cologne. I also reported that it was quite successful and that we were planning to do more. Well, here it is, we have just announced the second hackathon, this time hosted by the Technische Universität Darmstadt. Between the 16th and 18th of…
Today I went to my second CIDOC CRM workshop. As before, the workshop was led by Stephen Stead, one of the people who started the CIDOC Conceptual Reference Model Special Interest Group (CRM-SIG). He has been working on the CRM since 2000 and is one of the editors who helped to make the CRM an…
I recently announced that I would be organising an Archaeogaming Hackathon event. Last weekend we finally did it and it went great! We had three groups and each produced a small but playable game in just two full days. I was really fascinated by the simplicity of the software and the possibilities with no prior…
A while ago I reported that I was running an interdisciplinary course on the app ArchaeoTrial. The app is used to create tours and scavenger hunts of archaeological sites. In my course, groups created tours of Roman Cologne. The students put in a lot of work and effort and since a few days two ArchaeoTrails…
On the 3rd and 4th of June our network on “Digital Competencies in Archaeology” (DiKopA) met in Darmstadt, Germany. We had 10 presentations, 9 pitches and a World Café. The network and external visitors met in the lecture hall of the university library. Short story: I learned a lot from the DiKopA workshop. DiKopA I…