https://stemedplus.hcommons.org/members/jeremyhuggett/activity/ Activity feed for Jeremy Huggett. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 15:57:37 +0000 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 d68b43c7b060c5e4b8dddd545cea41ee https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1899257/ Thu, 19 Sep 2024 19:53:26 +0000 Over the past sixty years, digital archaeology has become a major research area equipped with its own international conferences and journals. During that period, the practical uses of computer techniques and technologies and the computations that can be applied in archaeological analysis have been explored, and digital tools, digital…[Read more]

]]> 0 a7cf4f01411cbfaef18ea014536d80be https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1878004/ Wed, 28 Feb 2024 17:37:51 +0000 Reply to Comments to keynote paper: Huggett, J. (2024) “Deconstructing the Digital Infrastructures Supporting Archaeological Knowledge”, Current Swedish Archaeology, 31, pp. 11–38. doi: 10.37718/CSA.2023.01.

]]> 0 00236e4dd9b4b560989dc11a2a854ee3 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1878003/ Wed, 28 Feb 2024 17:30:12 +0000 The last 30 years have seen significant investments in the development of digital infrastructures to support archaeological practice. From field recording systems to national data archives, these have come to play an increasingly dominant role in the collection, management, and access to the data used in the creation of new archaeological…[Read more]

]]> 0 9f08122e1ac6746d72c69d6b337478ed https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1867799/ Wed, 13 Dec 2023 09:24:26 +0000 0 e45b1b63db95dae33561372268958b33 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1863726/ Mon, 06 Nov 2023 21:19:54 +0000 This chapter examines the extent to which archaeological tasks can be devolved to software or software-driven machines. It identifies three variants of automation: augmentation, automatization, and heteromation, and argues that each is visible within current and developing archaeological practice. Although far removed from a fully automated…[Read more]

]]> 0 dfb8897bf97089ea51bff634342cfcec https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1863653/ Sun, 05 Nov 2023 14:16:02 +0000 Archaeology is a highly visual discipline, reliant on observation as well as description, and consequently makes extensive use of diagrams, maps, plans, illustrations and photography as well as textual narratives in communicating its interpretations of past material culture. If discourse analysis is to shed light on the construction of…[Read more]

]]> 0 536a7759d5df42da2277e5e97483dd4c https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1859736/ Tue, 26 Sep 2023 15:37:22 +0000 0 be4011776214f260b9aa70b3dfcb3a75 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1782050/ Thu, 19 May 2022 18:33:14 +0000 Archaeology operates in an increasingly data-mediated world in which data drive knowledge and actions about people and things. Famously, data has been characterized as “the new oil”, underpinning modern economies and at the root of many technological transformations in society at large, even assuming a near-religious power over thought and act…[Read more]

]]> 0 d683c1760a0b2f01295c0747435f1645 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1760280/ Wed, 01 Dec 2021 19:43:46 +0000 Debate response to AYCOCK, J. 2021. The coming tsunami of digital artefacts. Antiquity 95: 1584 - 1589
https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2021.84

]]> 0 ce76cb91e49170c7146ec910a2d3c805 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1743436/ Thu, 24 Jun 2021 18:34:08 +0000 Chapter looking at effects of computer technology on archaeological practice

]]> 0 1e3171997b119106ff564851b86504ce https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1741298/ Sun, 13 Jun 2021 11:48:09 +0000 A key development in archaeology is the increasing agency of the digital tools brought to bear on archaeological practice. Roles and tasks that were previously thought to be uncomputable are beginning to be digitalized, and the presumption that computerization is best suited to well-defined and restricted tasks is starting to break down. Many of…[Read more]

]]> 0 67548166100964ebf0b29d6a03af3bf0 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1715811/ Sat, 07 Nov 2020 09:13:47 +0000 The hype surrounding the impending mainstreaming of Virtual Reality can seem to prioritize the digital above the critical. With the development of VR said to be at a pivotal point, there is an important opportunity to consider the emergence of virtual heritage and its potential futures. This paper argues that there is a disjunction between the…[Read more]

]]> 0 4f39999acc129d8ccab73841b76b924f https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1688564/ Tue, 26 May 2020 11:02:32 +0000 The availability and accessibility of digital data are increasingly significant in the creation of archaeological knowledge with, for example, multiple datasets being brought together to perform extensive analyses that would not otherwise be possible. However, this makes capturing the silences in those data—what is absent as well as present, w…[Read more]

]]> 0 e045646691e127fc676f63cb448fd7d4 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1686345/ Wed, 06 May 2020 09:21:11 +0000 This paper presents a grand challenge for Digital Archaeology of a different kind: it is not technical in and of itself, it does not seek out technological solutions for archaeological problems, it does not propose new digital tools or digital methodologies as such. Instead, it proposes a broader challenge, one which addresses the very stuff of…[Read more]

]]> 0 08fbee96b1b3db7bcf613611f3105ef3 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1686344/ Wed, 06 May 2020 09:19:26 +0000 A keynote presentation at the 2012 Computer Applications in Archaeology (CAA) conference in Southampton (UK) proposed the use of grand challenges as a vehicle for identifying and pursuing major advances in Digital Archaeology. At the same time, it was argued that this should be a collaborative venture. This was taken…[Read more]

]]> 0 66070072bb8703c9ef946162abc4f83d https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1686343/ Wed, 06 May 2020 09:16:15 +0000 Increasing access to open data raises challenges, amongst the most important of which is the need to understand the context of the data that are delivered to the screen. Data are situated, contingent, and incomplete: they have histories which relate to their origins, their purpose, and their modification. These histories have implications for the…[Read more]

]]> 0 dc5bd1359f0f1aacd76069c6795b549e https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1686342/ Wed, 06 May 2020 09:09:59 +0000 Since the mid-1990s the development of online access to archaeological information has been revolutionary. Easy availability of data has changed the starting point for archaeological enquiry and the openness, quantity, range and scope of online digital data has long since passed a tipping point when online access became useful, even essential.…[Read more]

]]> 0 b19a79319c86d7ec8e82293023897b47 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1686341/ Wed, 06 May 2020 08:59:40 +0000 Defining what constitute archaeological practices is a prerequisite for understanding where and how archaeological and archaeologically relevant information and knowledge are made, what counts as archaeological information, and where the limits are situated. The aim of this position paper, developed as a part of the COST action Archaeological…[Read more]

]]> 0 827e538aeee0aa17af17d85a2b661f41 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1685255/ Sat, 25 Apr 2020 14:54:20 +0000 This paper addresses the nature of digital scholarship and discusses the challenges for digitally engaged researchers in archaeology and elsewhere who find that the move to digital scholarship alters the terms of engagement in both the institutional and the personal context. For example, digital methods can counterintuitively lead to increased…[Read more]

]]> 0 2984d745c8dd81a9616c9d6593d0e404 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1685253/ Sat, 25 Apr 2020 14:48:41 +0000 Archaeological data is always incomplete, frequently unreliable, often replete with unknown unknowns,
but we nevertheless make the best of what we have and use it to build our theories and extrapolations
about past events. Is there any reason to think that digital data alter this already complicated
relationship with archaeological data? How…[Read more]

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