Guest Speaker: Dr. Daniel Löwenborg Affiliation: Department of Archaeology, Ancient history and Conservation, Uppsala University, Sweden.

Schedule: 

• Starts: 13.30
• Short break: 14.30
• Ends: 17.00 

In this interactive research workshop, Dr. Daniel Löwenborg from Swedigarch will actively explore some of the exciting new possibilities of working with large volumes of geodata from archaeological excavations, which can support aggregated analysis and new kinds of knowledge production. The workshop consists of two parts: 

• Part 1: Interactive Data Exploration. Daniel will start with a practical look at the data that is being published on https://swedigarch.se/index.php/swedigarch/resources/ages/ Instructions: Feel free top bring a lap top if you want to participate. You should have QGIS installed, plus the plugin Swedigarch Geotools (you can install it from the QGIS plugins manager, or you can do it at the seminar), and download some GPKG from AGES so you can look at the functions together. Note that some data on AGES is available from the RAÄ e-archive, and this data needs to be requested from them beforehand as it can take a day or two to get it. Other data are possible to download directly. The format of data created in Intrasis and converted to GPKG has a few characteristics that can be good to know about, and Daniel will look at some ways to explore and analyse these data in QGIS. Please note: the data work in QGIS, which is very easy to get started with. However, they do not work in ArcGIS, so please bear this in mind.

   

• Part 2: FAIR Geodata: In the second part of the workshop, Daniel will discuss the possibilities of developing a formal standard for how geodata should be structured and made FAIR as part of reporting Swedish contract archaeology excavations in the future. If we want to make it efficient (or even possible) to make computer-based analysis of geodata in combination with finds and the results from scientific analysis, we need to agree on some level of standardisation for how to organise data to go beyond being just Findable and Accessible. 

The interactive workshop concludes with an open discussion chaired by Daniel. 

Everyone welcome! 

Peter Jordan