CAA 2012 Southampton - Wednesday

A review of the third day of the 2012 CAA conference held at the University of Southampton, which hosted a CAA Personal Histories session in the afternoon.

  1. Here's a look back at yesterday from SUSUtv:
  2. And a few piccies:
  3. The main twitter talk that come out of the topics covered in Wednesdays sessions:
  4. Stuart Jeffrey Are we about to enter another digital dark age:? Embracing social media & collaboration but how record? #caasoton #caa_venn
  5. Michael Klein discussing 3D models of urban environments that allow for quick changes to aid interpretation #caasoton
  6. Very cool 3D documentary about the mummification process in ancient Egypt playing in room 1163. #caasoton
  7. Is confusing the public with visualisations a bad thing? A strange question asked from uncertainty session. #caasoton #theory1
  8. @CatrionaCooper @mattj_harrison are we ready to visualise uncertainties in 3d model and photorealistic renders or not yet? #caasoton
  9. Andrew Bevan: 'Pairwise uncertainty' – the uncertainty of two related periods. #caasoton
  10. Can we get finds specialists to express their interpretations in percentage confidences?Great paper from Andy Bevan. #caasoton #theory1
  11. Enrico Crema: “Uncertainty is information... it tells you something.” #caasoton
  12. Alice Hunt: Uncertainty comes in two ways – from the data and from the human interaction with the data #caasoton
  13. Uncertainty session: “We chuck out hypothesis to narrow down on certainty” #caasoton
  14. The uncertainty session is uncertain of the outcomes of the session. #caasoton
  15. Jeffrey- Social media involves acclimatisation of users to commercial monitoring, archaeologists should be wary #caa_venn #caasoton
  16. No neutral space for archiving social media data - key point here is neutrality aspect, I think #caasoton #caa_venn
  17. Dunn- Digital humanities is about the process and not about the subject area #caa_venn #caasoton

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