Eric Kansa @ekansa@octodon.social

@paregorios @JubalBarca @captain_primate @seanmunger @mlemweb @jenniferlouise @steko @ryanfb @Electricarchaeo @sebhth

Just a quick update, because I'm looking at server logs now...

It seems that the Mozilla DotBot has suddenly taken a huge interest in data documenting #BeforeModernTimes #archaeology material culture. It is doing an intense crawl of Open Context.

@JubalBarca Very nice!

@paregorios @JubalBarca @captain_primate @seanmunger @mlemweb @jenniferlouise @steko @ryanfb @Electricarchaeo @sebhth

If we want to get pedantic, we can use http://perio.do to reference more precise period definitions, but URIs don't work the same as hashtags in social media...

@JubalBarca @paregorios @captain_primate @seanmunger @mlemweb @jenniferlouise @steko @ryanfb @Electricarchaeo @sebhth

#BeforeModernTimes works for me, and I'm OK with fuzzy and differences in opinions about what that actually means.

@paregorios @captain_primate @seanmunger @mlemweb @jenniferlouise @steko @ryanfb @Electricarchaeo @sebhth @JubalBarca

Yep. A hash tag tends to work if people can recognize its meaning without much effort. That tends to entrench concepts that maybe should be disrupted / questioned.

I don't have an easy answer, but I'm in favor of following some updates about "humanistic scholarship about older things".

So sick of all things Trump.

How and when do we send that asshole and all his cronies to face the due process of law?

I'm really tired of being angry at all the blatant corruption all the time!

@sebhth @paregorios @steko @Electricarchaeo @captain_primate @precatlady

Oh!

That is neat! Very dynamic and useful!

@sebhth @paregorios @steko @Electricarchaeo @captain_primate @precatlady

I wanted to play with this (http://holoviews.org), but haven't had a chance. What are you doing with it? Are your finding it better than other #datavis frameworks?

@paregorios

"Orthogonal to sanity"? That would be the next White House press-conference.

@paregorios

My dreams (nightmares?) stumbling into a Lovecraftian thriller have been dashed by missing quote characters in a text file.

So much for the romance and adventure of archaeology.

Ah. I was wondering how this dataset got non-Euclidean geometries in its geospatial data.

I was hopping I had found the location of the green stone city of R'lyeh on the great sunken continent of Mu. But, no such luck. Instead, it was a badly escaped CSV file that shifted columns over in random places.

@paregorios @steko @Electricarchaeo @captain_primate @precatlady @sebhth

oh. isn't wierd how the little non-profit systems we maintain last longer than many of the huge commercial systems?

@paregorios @steko @Electricarchaeo @captain_primate @precatlady @sebhth

I've been doing tedious data cleanup stuff since the SAA conference. That and went to a big open washing event with Google and Cyark.

I'm boring.

Anyone else doing anything interesting?

@paregorios @steko @Electricarchaeo @captain_primate @precatlady @sebhth we seem to be getting a critical mass on this platform, so perhaps it can work?

@paregorios @sebhth @steko @Electricarchaeo @captain_primate @precatlady

I'm wondering what it would take to move more conversations from Twitter over to this channel.

@paregorios @sebhth @steko @Electricarchaeo @captain_primate @precatlady

welcome all!