hey @sebhth @ekansa @Electricarchaeo @precatlady @ryanfb @steko @jenniferlouise @mlemweb @seanmunger @captain_primate @JubalBarca
What do you think? Can we get #AncientToday going as a hashtag where we post something that each of us is working on today in the field of #AncientStudies (as broadly understood)? #pedagogy #digital and #YakShaving are fine, not just #research and #writing
I'll start ...
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Hm. I feel like Ancient risks being confusing when applied to my stuff, as it's often used with the more specific meaning of "pre-medieval" by medievalists like myself?
Yeah, that there is a conventional disciplinary boundary that IMO gets in the way of so many interesting things. But at the same time, transgressing the terminology of that boundary can sow confusion and misguided reaction that is equally obstructive.
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@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".
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Maybe ditch the "Today" since it'll just be whenever we're posting it, and use #BeforeModernTimes or something? Though I guess that may imply different things to non-historians who don't think of "modern" as "post sixteenth century"...
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#BeforeModernTimes works for me, and I'm OK with fuzzy and differences in opinions about what that actually means.
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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...
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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.
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Is #historodons still a thing? Honestly I don't do a whole lot of ancient or even medieval stuff anymore; my podcast is focused on the 19th century, so I won't be using the earlier period hashtags that often.
I haven't seen much traffic on that hashtag (other than from you and @JubalBarca), but that may just be a consequence of my anemic follow network so far. In any case, I think that it would be good to keep using that hashtag when appropriate (and I see the JB has done so).
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@paregorios @JubalBarca @captain_primate @seanmunger @mlemweb @jenniferlouise @steko @ryanfb @Electricarchaeo @sebhth
#BeforeModernTimes
I just finished indexing data documenting about 4500 #archaeology sites in California that link to the Phoebe A Hearst Museum of Anthropology collections.
https://opencontext.org/search/United+States/California?type=subjects&proj=52-digital-index-of-north-american-archaeology-dinaa&prop=oc-gen-cat-loc-or-context---oc-gen-cat-site#6/37.440/-119.355/11/tile/Google-Satellite