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josh

@josh@fediscience.org

Prof of Anthropology & Social Informatics at Indiana University South Bend. PI of Digital Index of North American Archaeology (DINAA). #anthropology #archaeology #citizensci #civictech #culturalheritage #cyborganthropology #digiarch #digitalarchaeology #digitalhumanities #dh #digitalrights #FOSS #GIS #informatics #openScience #openData #openGov #STS

Also #biketowork #canoeing #cooking #HoosierMast #running #SciFi

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The moment totality hit. Video is bouncy because I was watching the sky but here it is.

A bright dot quickly turning into a dark dot surrounded by a bright ring in a larger darkness. Small dots of light appear around it. Screams and exclamations are heard.

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Where tomorrow are we flying our Lear Jets to see the total eclipse of the sun?

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You get email from Airbnb about Extenuating Circumstances

I get email from Airbnb about Special Circumstances

We are not the same

josh,
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@danhon
I got emails from Airbnb claiming I'm a felon who has a name similar to mine in a state far from where I've ever lived ... that felt special

josh, (edited ) to random
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What are we expecting for Monday's eclipse?

josh,
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@tchauhan
I'm quite excited.

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Quick question: how do you guys actually feel about Meta making Threads Fediverse compatible?

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@tomcoates

josh,
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@tomcoates
But snark aside if it means the outside world can put critical news like this back into their walled garden then it’s a better thing
https://www.thehandbasket.co/p/kansas-reflector-meta-facebook-column-censored

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Today's use for an AI chatbot, fixing OCR errors and artifacts from text exported from scanned PDF, then reformatting text with proper paragraph breaks to copy/paste into more readable format

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Book Question for peeps:

I want a more current book on human evolution for freshman/sophomore college students to read that has the sensibilities of Chris Stringer's Lone Survivors: How We Came to Be the Only Humans on Earth

Suggestions? Thanks!

LGT publisher page for Stringer book that I've been using ...
https://academic.macmillan.com/academictrade/9781250023308/lonesurvivors

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to last year when my favorite local Chinese takeout bought cases of remaindered fortune cookies. I'm still seeing them a year later.

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Hi @Lotje I'm Josh, a PI with the Digital Index of North American Archaeology (DINAA). We use archaeological site numbers as key identifiers to link site records, lit, & collections for pubsci. I'm writing a brief history of Smithsonian Trinomial system +its influence and found your great blog from 2014. I fail to find your email but fortunately the fediverse is here for us!

Could we talk/email/msg about your archival work? I'd love to reference you.

https://nmnh.typepad.com/rogers_archaeology_lab/2014/09/rbsshapedhistoricalarchaeology.html

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@ecology_revised @Lotje

Hi Dr. Jennifer! I sent that message to Lotje publicly in the clear because I'm not sure what the privacy settings are on Lotje's direct messages and I wanted to be certain it is received. So it showed up in the FediScience feed :-)

Jennifer, here are a couple of queries in DINAA:

  1. "Shell" query all records, about 25K sites - https://opencontext.org/query/Americas/United+States?cat=oc-gen-cat-loc-or-context---oc-gen-cat-site&geodeep=10&proj=52-digital-index-of-north-american-archaeology-dinaa&type=subjects&q=shell#aq=facet-oc-gen-category---oc-gen-cat-site/ovgrd=oc/zm=4/ov=sqr/lat=37.44/lng=-99.18

  2. "Shell" query, records with literature references, 547 sites - https://opencontext.org/query/Americas/United+States?cat=oc-gen-cat-loc-or-context---oc-gen-cat-site&proj=52-digital-index-of-north-american-archaeology-dinaa&prop=dc-terms-is-referenced-by&q=shell&type=subjects#aq=dc-terms-is-referenced-by/ovgrd=oc/zm=4/ov=sqr/lat=37.72/lng=-99.14

DINAA keyword query for "shell"

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@ecology_revised @Lotje

Jennifer, you have some further options to tailor the queries:

  1. geographically filter either query for coastal areas more likely to contain marine shell

  2. use some of the "shell" containing strings that appear when you type shell in the search box

  3. potentially try species names that might be listed in data records without the word "shell"

josh,
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@ecology_revised @Lotje

Jennifer, FWIW here is a query for "Strombus" which yields 31 sites, then filtered by "Is Referenced By" which winnows the yield to 2.

Click on the "Item Records" tab to see specific archaeological site records for any query

Within an archaeological site record use the "External References" tab to find literature and other references to the site that we are aware are available.

Within an archaeological site record use the "External References" tab to find literature and other references to the site that we are aware are available.

josh,
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@Lotje

I will! I hope you like molluscs too ... sorry for the spam ... HA!

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Happy first day of Mastodon over 15 million. And spring!

josh, to Anthropology
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Nice piece by @parismarx about the importance of physical media. and the right to control, for equitable access. The cloud is by definition somebody else’s property and this has real repercussions beyond mere entertainment. Too many in and lots of other sectors think that putting something online alone makes it findable and reusable.

https://disconnect.blog/why-is-it-so-hard-to-buy-a-blu-ray/

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Cool project https://www.archives.gov/citizen-archivist/missions/revolutionary-war-pension-files

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"Indiana University joins forces with RDA-US to advance Open Science Standards"

https://news.iu.edu/live/news/33921-indiana-university-joins-forces-with-rda-us-to-advance

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“@creativecommons hosted a webinar “Whose Open Culture? Decolonization, Indigenization, and Restitution” ... intersection of indigenous knowledge and open sharing ... spanned a variety of topics regarding indigenous sovereignty over culture, respectful terminology, and the legacy of colonialism and how it still exists today. While we strive for more open sharing, it is important to recognize the cases where culture should not be open to all.”

https://creativecommons.org/2024/01/31/recap-recording-whose-open-culture-decolonization-indigenization-and-restitution/

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Has a really nice “what about Mastodon” section that poses the question of why BlueSky is even …

https://techcrunch.com/2024/02/06/bluesky-is-now-open-for-anyone-to-join

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Excited to see the government of France standing up an official Mastodon server. How much longer must we wait for the US to follow our European allies and have social media feeds free of corporate walls and security risks?

https://social.numerique.gouv.fr/public/local

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Living history piece by @Mer__edith

“The blueprint for modern digital computing was codesigned by Charles Babbage, a vocal champion for the … industrial capitalist class who condemned organized workers and viewed democracy and capitalism as incompatible … His influential theories on how “enterprising capitalists” could best subjugate workers are well documented in conventional labor scholarship.”

https://logicmag.io/supa-dupa-skies/origin-stories-plantations-computers-and-industrial-control/

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Be the Internet you want to see.

“Zooniverse is the world’s largest and most popular platform for people-powered research … made possible by volunteers — more than a million people around the world who come together to assist professional researchers. Our goal is to enable research that would not be possible, or practical, otherwise. Zooniverse research results in new discoveries …”

https://www.zooniverse.org/

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Before lunch I ran 5K and had a call with a global publishing outfit that is very excited by my work. I should probably go back to bed right now.

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