[open-archaeology] models and scripts

Fri Mar 19 14:45:53 UTC 2010

Il giorno ven, 19/03/2010 alle 09.58 +0100, Verhagen, J.W.H.P. ha
scritto:

Hi Philip,

> So, how to approach this? The Atlas of Open Economics does not store
> scripts as far as I can see, just mathematical model descriptions, and
> that is not really what we are looking for here. Something closer to
> the mark in my view is the stuff in www.spatialanalysisonline.com,
> even though this is a book rather than a wiki. On this site, the
> basics of spatial analysis techniques are explained and a listing is
> given if and how various software packages do the stuff described; the
> recent book on Geomorphometry (Hengl/Reuter 2009) does something
> similar. It does however not give links to individual scripts or
> software, and that should be the most important part of an Open
> Archaeology version of it. I don't know what is happening with the
> Open Archaeology site that Benjamin Ducke launched some time ago (it
> does not seem to have accumulated much new stuff lately), but that
> would be an obvious place of storage for those that don't want to
> maintain their own repository of scripts.
> 
> I have absolutely no experience with developing wiki stuff, so while
> I'm willing to spend (a modest amount of) time on it, I would prefer
> to have someone involved who has done something similar before to tell
> me what does work and what doesn't ... 

I agree that a wiki would be the best solution - why not start a
dedicated section at http://wiki.iosa.it/ for now rather than creating
yet another website ? I feel this is the most convenient solution,
particularly following Ben's unavailability to work more on
openarchaeology.net.

For scripts alone, I found it very easy to use hosting services like
bitbucket.org or github.com (see for example my page at
http://bitbucket.org/steko/ and various stuff there).

Data could be just loaded on archive.org, if they aren't in fluid state.

I'm curious about scripts: which programming language are people using
for their modelling tasks ? Do availability of data on the web pushes
for some specific programming paradigm or language ?

Ciao,
steko

-- 
Stefano Costa

Coordinator, Working Group on Open Data in Archaeology
http://wiki.okfn.org/wg/archaeology
The Open Knowledge Foundation
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