Jolene Smith @aejolene@octodon.social
Working on data from a big countywide archaeology assessment project. No big surprises, but marking all these sites as "destroyed" is a drag.
Wonder if I could convince them to give me a data cleaning/modeling sabbatical? I can dream.
On so many levels in love with this lava cameo (tuff, more accurately). Victorian, call to some invented Classical time. Why is she?
Lil's concept for a new Richmond monument with @StorefrontRVA@twitter.com
Pulling data for my upcoming 10 years of VA archaeology site file management anniversary dataviz tattoo...
One of the best smells in the universe is the flowers of a Daphne shrub. I will archaeologist-squat in our driveway next to this bush until these blossoms fall off.
GUESS WHO'S SAA HOTEL RESERVATION DIDN'T ACTUALLY GO THROUGH IN JULY.
Every time I need to figure something new out with regex I feel like I need to learn everything all over again. I need to get good at this. How did you learn?
Assigning archaeological site numbers to the locations of a whole mess of former cemetery locations on a military installation. Burials were "relocated" to other places, but the extent really drives home all the displacement. These are often Black families.
This evening I toast to Past Me, who didn't do a bunch of manual data entry like a sucker, and to Present Me, who finally got the macro to go.
I think I'm keeping this dead plant on my desk as a memento mori.
Another cyclist just caught up to me to in-motion pass me a glove I dropped probably a mile back.
Today's theme: sensitive data. Webinar on "Managing Confidential Information & Sec 304" and cultural heritage by the ACHP, then some prep for an #SAA2018 panel, "Keeping Our Secrets: Sharing and Protecting Sensitive Resource Information in the Era of Open Data" (4/14 afternoon)
The cemetery project is SO close to done. Training folks tomorrow. Prepping docs. Polishing functionality. A bit surreal that things are finish-able.
Whether or not the news is a revelation, I've been on a slow path toward disentangling from FB for a couple years. Still, I find some of the service (connecting with old friends/fam, some job stuff) valuable. My time/data reclamation strategies, should they be helpful to you: 1/5
@ekansa I'll be glued to the CAA stream this week, for sure. So much cool work and great ideas are circulating lately.
@ekansa Me too! I'm completely flying by the seat of my pants on the structure, but it seems to be coming together.
Working on my own contribution for the SAA gov't digiarch session, about arranging all this site data and thinking about how our identies/training/worldviews as archaeologists influence data structure.
Grant me the self-confidence of this specific eagle.
Regretfully I can't make it to #MAAC2018, but a version of my paper on archaeology GIS, climate change, outreach, and open data possibilities is online at http://bit.ly/2G0pr1k. Shoutouts to @dinaa_proj@twitter.com, @CoastArch@twitter.com, #msudai
