[open-archaeology] Historical Societies and #Wikipedia

Stefano Costa stefano.costa at okfn.org
Mon Mar 22 09:26:42 UTC 2010


>particularly following Ben's unavailability to work more on
>openarchaeology.net.

There are more of us behind the site than just Ben, however, so if
anyone has any ideas for Drupal powered Open Archaeology, they should
get in contact. Having said that, I don't think we've got an
OpenArchaeology.net contact address, so interested people should email
Ben and myself and we'll look at getting them an account.

Cheers, Joseph




On 19 March 2010 14:45, Stefano Costa <stefano.costa at okfn.org> wrote:
> 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
>
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