Behind my GIS: How not to ask for a map
This blogpost evolved from different situations where I was asked to draw a map or to do a GIS-based analysis of ancient stuff (inscriptions, tombs, Roman provinces, finding spots etc.). In one of my...
Category: Experimenting on Data
All about the “old stuff”. Mostly stones and inscriptions, 3D and SFM, GIS, programming and other fancy technical things. A category dealing with our digital experiments (successful or not), tutorials and lessons learned on the go.
The Bot-Powered Epigrammetry Twitter Adventure goes into another round!
As you might know or have suspected if you follow us on Twitter, we’ve had part of our account bot-powered for a while now (just auto-retweeting of hashtags relevant to us and hopefully our...
Lessons learned while teaching Digital Classics
When you are a trained archaeologist and a trained Classicist by means that you have your MA in both disciplines – and now a PhD in Archaeology as well – you can easily give...
Experimenting on data: Web-Scraping
Some desperate corona evening recently, I ended up scraping some library records of Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel. Since I obtained some information by web crawling which I really didn’t need in the first place,...
R you ready for archaeological data?
Since I am trying to work myself into the use of programming with R and accomplishing my data analysis with this tool, I have struggled more than one time with the way of thinking...
To err is human – to R is happy pirate noob
Okay, I have to admit it, I saw the quote “to err is human to arr is pirate” and I totally loved it first sight. Then the love decided that I should try an...
Fun with SFM – part II: The results
So, hello, dear all, I am back from a very busy family weekend – and I would like to entertain you now with our second part to our SFM-tutorial! Due to my work at...
Devices and productivity on the go
Today I want to share some reflections on productivity on the go since I just returned from an archaeology and ancient history sailing excursion (inofficial) summer school (it was great and will probably happen...
Fun with SFM – Part I: taking pictures
So, welcome to our first tutorial on SFM – structure from motion to get a 3D model of your favourite object. In our case, due to our name “Epigrammetry” which combines Epigraphy and Photogrammetry,...
The “D”- and the “H”-part
It was a post of my dear LaTeX ninja, talking about the pros and cons (okay, basically the pros) of one getting started doing Digital Humanities (you can find the original post here). I...
