De/coding Digital Archaeology
Event description
Explore the intersection of archaeology and emerging data analytics methods, examine the evolving relationship between the physical and digital and gain insights into the increasingly interdisciplinary nature of digital archaeology.
This symposium brings together University of Melbourne scholars from diverse fields to share their work on data-driven approaches to investigating the past. The symposium will showcase projects that use a variety of data practices, digital tools, computational methods, and analytical techniques.
Speakers will discuss how innovative data-driven methodologies contribute to expanding the frontiers of digital archaeology. Discover new avenues of archaeological inquiry that apply to individual artefacts as well as broad cultural landscapes. Topics include digital preservation of cultural heritage, critical reflections on technology's impact, ethics and interpretation, novel digital methods, and the role of AI and advanced computational techniques.
Morning and afternoon tea provided.
Attend in person or online via Zoom - please select the correct ticket type when registering.
Program
| Time | Session |
|---|---|
| 9.30am - 10am | Morning tea and welcome |
| 10am - 10.30am | Symposium opening |
| 10.30am - 12pm | Session 1 Storying Indigenous engineering ingenuity in the aquaculture systems of the Gunditjmara at the UNESCO World Heritage Budj Bim cultural landscape These are a few of my favourite things: An eclectic discussion of 3D modelling in Victoria and abroad Digital dental data from the centre of Melbourne |
| 12pm - 1pm | Lunch - free time |
| 1pm - 2.30pm | Session 2 Allowing for multiple assessments, or datasets, for a single object A historians approach to data analytics Old problems, new machines: Best and big data in archaeology |
| 2.30 - 2.45pm | Afternoon tea |
| 2.45 - 3.45pm | Session 3 The LLM Livy ‘AncientNLP’: A cross-discipline collaboration harnessing natural language processing in ancient script research |
| 4pm | Discussion and drinks (in person) |
Hosted by the Melbourne Data Analytics Platform and the Australasian chapter of Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology.
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