| Website | https://alexbrandsen.nl |
| Pronouns | He/him |
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When it comes to FAIR data, the focus is mainly on findability. But interoperability is just as important for researchers, says Alex Brandsen, interoperability expert in the field of social sciences and humanities.
The Interactive Pasts Conference (TIPC) is an event where we get together to celebrate our joint love for video games and the past and share our playful, creative, smart, cool, beautiful ideas with each other.
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I finally got around to writing up a summary of the unconference I organised in November, funded by Open Science NL with the Open Science Meetings grant, ARCHON research school of archaeology, and SAILS Society Artificial Intelligence and Life Sciences.
Thanks to co-authors @toothFAIRy, @alexbrandsen, @RonaldVisser, Pascal Flohr, and @andreatitolo!
https://openworking.wordpress.com/2025/01/15/open-science-in-archaeology-an-unconference/
This paper presents a study on Vlaardingen Culture (3400-2500 BCE) sites in theRhine-Meuse-Scheldt delta using AGNES, an intelligent search engine for Dutch andFlemish archaeological grey literature. The aims of this paper are twofold: 1) toprovide an up-to-date overview of Vlaardingen Culture sites; 2) to evaluate theperformance of AGNES in searching for period specific sites. Vlaardingen Culture(VLC) sites usually consist of artefact scatters without clearly discernible houseplans. These scatters are often found amongst abundant remains from later periods.This type of ‘by-catch’ is usually not found in the metadata of archaeological reports.It can only be recovered in full text searches. AGNES uses Text Mining and LargeLanguage Models to allow searches on archaeological concepts (in this case anarchaeological culture) in full texts extracted from three major repositories for Dutch(DANS and ARCHIS) and Flemish (Onroerend Erfgoed) archaeology. This paperpresents a search for VLC sites, and a comparison of the retrieved information with arecently compiled overview of VLC sites in the area. Using eight queries we retrieved4532 hits, which were subdivided into: relevant hits (n=430); semi-relevant hits(n=2133); and irrelevant hits (n=1960). We recovered thirty previously unknownVlaardingen Culture sites, amounting to 19% of the total number of VLC sites(n=158). Not all sites could be found in AGNES, older archaeological sites are oftenpublished in scientific and semi-scientific journals, theses, or books. Thesepublications are absent in the repositories which can be accessed through AGNES,and by extent, they cannot be retrieved. As such AGNES does not provide analternative to traditional search methods. Nevertheless, most of the newly found sitesconsist of sites which cannot be found by searching the metadata of reports in DANSand ARCHIS. Therefore, AGNES proved to be an essential and effective addition totraditional search methods. Finally, our study highlighted the fact that clearterminology to describe Vlaardingen Culture sites is presently lacking. As such thestudy provided interesting insights into the terminologies employed indevelopment-led archaeology.
I wrote an op-ed with colleagues at Leiden's Humanities and Social Science faculties for Mare 👇
https://mareonline.nl/en/background/smart-cameras-have-no-place-on-campus-take-them-down/
We argue #SurveillanceTechnology undermines academic values of freedom and autonomy.
The board of #LeidenUniversity should take the smart cameras down!
Machine Learning in Archaeology is gathering speed. I listened to an expert and was amazed. Alex Brandsen (@alexbrandsen) talked about his dissertation at the Colloquium in Cultural Digital Heritage at the University of Cologne.
In preparation to this, I tried Artificial Intelligence out myself by using ChatGPT and was amazed even more! What took me a day, was done by AI in 10 seconds. But is it helpful though?
🔗 https://itsmoreofacomment.com/2023/01/13/machine-learning-in-archaeology/
The review process for #CAA2023Ams is well underway, with more than 350 reviews already completed!
If you've been asked to review, please go to cmt3.research.microsoft.com/CAA2023/Submis… to do so, or let the session chair know if you are unable to review.
Deadline for reviews is 9th of December!
Ruud Steltenpool
Sebastian Hageneuer
PCI Archaeology
Bjørn Peare Bartholdy
Tom Theuns
CAA2023 Amsterdam