- Full information and programme for the day available from the CBA website:
CBA Winter General Meeting | The Council for British ArchaeologyThe bi-annual business meeting of the Council for British Archaeology (CBA) will be held in conjunction with a day seminar on issues rela...- Heading into London on the train, I let people know that I'd be tweeting highlights - expecting to be the only one!
Heading into london for CBA winter meeting on digital academic publication. Will attempt to tweet highlights using #CBAwinter- Confirmation from several that they wanted to hear tweets and RTs was a good thing.
#cbawinter great idea. I will be interested in hearing about the meeting and would have liked to have been there
#ArchEvents Today, head of dept. Julian Richards is keynote and chair at the CBA @britarch winter meeting bit.ly/ABA1vM #CBAwinter
RT @ArchaeologyYork: Today, head of dept. Julian Richards is keynote speaker at CBA @britarch winter meeting bit.ly/ABA1vM #CBAwinter
Follow the CBA general winter meeting at #cbawinter 'Publication & Accessing Archaeological Archives'- It looked like others would be there too!
After a looong train journey, we've made it to #CBAwinter! Looking forward to a session on publishing & accessing archaeological knowledge.Prof. Julian Richards - Keynote Address
And we were off. After a short introduction by Dr Kate Pretty, CBA President, the day kicked off with Prof Julian Richards (the one without the beard for those who know their archaeologists by their facial hair) who set the scene for archaeological publication by reviewing the recommendations of a 2001 user needs survey run by the CBA (PUNS):
From the ground up. The publication of archaeological projects: a user needs surveyThe Publication of Archaeological Projects Dr Siân Jones Dr Ann MacSween Stuart Jeffrey Richard Morris Dr Mike Heyworth Council for Briti...- First up Julian Richards reviewing electronic publication progress. In short not much! Still exception & seen as less prestigious #CBAwinter
- And some more specific points:
Julian Richards predicts paper will be dead in 5 years, puns gave us 10 years to prepare #cbawinter
Paper will be dead in archaeology publishing in 5yrs: Julian Richards #cbawinter
We spend millions on fieldwork then try to save thousands on dissemination #CBAwinter
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