From 06c4f49948b1addd1788da32e9a3fa3b511541bd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Clemens Schmid Date: Mon, 9 Oct 2023 11:09:09 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] added minutes for the last meeting --- content/minutes/2023-10-04.md | 47 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 47 insertions(+) create mode 100644 content/minutes/2023-10-04.md diff --git a/content/minutes/2023-10-04.md b/content/minutes/2023-10-04.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..60fc0b0 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/minutes/2023-10-04.md @@ -0,0 +1,47 @@ +--- +title: "34th regular meeting" +date: 2023-10-04 +--- + +7 ppl attended + +## Open exchange + +- Ben Marwick: + - Archaeology CRAN Task View + - CRAN has updated the way task views are maintained + - Ben et al. prepared a draft for an Archaeology task view: https://github.com/benmarwick/ctv-archaeology/blob/master/Archaeology.md + - Everybody is invited to check it for completeness and suggest changes on GitHub + - Incentivizing archaeological journals to request/support/verify computational reproducibility + - Ben reached out to the editors of various journals to argue for more data/code sharing + - He suggested two concrete changes: + - The journals should support Open Research Badges (e.g. https://authorservices.wiley.com/open-research/open-recognition-and-reward/open-research-badges.html), which is a relatively easy thing for the journals to adopt + - A more work-intensive idea involves to specify the new role of a "Associate Editor of Reproducibility". This role involves checking the computational reproducibility of papers, if the authors opt-in. + - The editors were pretty receptive to these ideas so far - Ben has more meetings lined up + - New paper: "Women in the Lab, Men in the Field? Correlations between Gender and Research Topics at Three Major Archaeology Conferences" + - DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/00934690.2023.2261083 + - Code: https://github.com/yichun33/archyconfgender + - Ben's short introduction of the paper sparked a discussion about gender parity in our group. When we organize meetings we should be conscious about who we invite to maintain a balance - not just regarding gender, but also regarding other diversity parameters. We could consider formalizing this notion in our statutes. +- Florian Thiery (https://fthiery.de/) contacted the SIG SSLA to ask if any of our members would like to join him in chairing a session at the EAA2024. The session will frame/discuss research software as a special kind of research data. +- John Aycock asked a modified version of the question that already came up in the 31st meeting (2023-07-05). Back then he asked about programming language features archaeologists may desire. Now he focused on tools to translate from one language to another (transpilation). Keywords of the discussion: + - Simpler ways to express chronological models (e.g. oxcal) + - Visual coding, e.g. https://education.rstudio.com/blog/2019/10/my-javascript-internship-at-rstudio + - Standardized data analysis pipelines for certain data categories: burial site data, compositional data + - Managing site data is a major unsolved question of archaeology, despite many attempts +- Other news items, mostly compiled from Mastodon by Clemens Schmid, Sophie Schmidt and Ben Marwick: + - Typewriter-styled maps in ggplot2: https://nrennie.rbind.io/blog/creating-typewriter-maps-r + - Interesting discussion "How to comment on dead systems in a review": https://archaeo.social/@Drdonnayates/111147003931585716 + - New fuzzy-join package: https://github.com/beniaminogreen/zoomerjoin + - Zack Batist's PhD thesis is online: https://zenodo.org/record/8373390 + - webR and shiny become integrated - just as predicted: https://www.infoworld.com/article/3707250/shiny-r-web-framework-arrives-in-wasm.html + - The ROAD database got published: https://archaeo.social/@sommer@fosstodon.org/110820072946462861 + - Inequality joins are now easy to do in the dplyr R package: https://r4ds.hadley.nz/joins.html#inequality-joins + - The ADS has prepared a new archaeological data management guide/checklist: https://www.archaeologists.net/digdigital + +## Conferences + +There are currently open calls for papers for the CAA2024 in Aukland (https://2024.caaconference.org, until 19th October) and the ArchaeoFOSS2023 in Turin (https://www.archeofoss.org/2023, until 20th October). + +## Next SIG Meeting: Wednesday, November 1, 2023 + +We invited two colleagues to introduce the Archaeo-riddle competition: https://theia.arch.cam.ac.uk/archaeoriddle