- Cultural Heritage Informatics Fieldmanual
- The New Organigram Project: A Macroscopic View of the Illicit Antiquities Trade
- Computational Creativity in Archaeology; a subproject of CRANE: Computational Research in the Ancient Near East
- Bone Trade: Studying the Online Trade in Human Remains with Machine Learning and Neural Networks
Cultural Heritage Informatics Fieldmanual
Funded by Carleton’s Multidisciplinary Catalyst Fund. Current RA is Monique Manatch. This project is in its early stages, and is inspired by the work of Tim Sherratt’s GLAM Workbench as well as MSU’s ‘Cultural Heritage Informatics Initiative‘. The idea is to create an outward-facing community-engaged model for teaching cultural heritage informatics tools and techniques for the wider community here in Ottawa, the seat of many of the national museums and heritage organizations.
The New Organigram Project: A Macroscopic View of the Illicit Antiquities Trade
The original organigram was a diagram drawn by an Italian mid-level gangster showing how various tomb robbers, middle men, dealers, and museum people were organized in Italy in various ‘cordata’ (Italian for how mountain climbers are tied together as they ascend). The new ‘organigram’ generates automatic knowledge graphs from newspaper articles, auction catalogues, the Panama Papers, and other public sources which will enable us to predict relationships that should exist and are otherwise hidden. This project is with Donna Yates, who is an Associate Professor in the department of Criminal Law and Criminology at Maastricht University. This project is funded by a SSHRC Insight Development Grant. Current RAs on the project are Chantal Brousseau, Jonah Ellens, and Callum McDermott.
Computational Creativity in Archaeology; a subproject of CRANE: Computational Research in the Ancient Near East
As a subproject of the larger ‘CRANE‘ project led by Tim Harrison of the University of Toronto, this project explores creative computational approaches to legacy archaeological data, and is funded through a SSHRC Partnership Grant. Past RA Jeff Blackadar has developed workflows for deduplicating archaeological imagery, and for identifying archaeological features from lidar data. Current RAs are Scott Coleman, Kavita Mistry, and Noah Chapman. Scott is looking into network analytic approaches to landscape data in Anatolia; Kavita is exploring generative adversarial networks and photogrammetry; and Noah is using procedural generation developed from video game technologies for archaeological visualizations.
Recent publications from this group include:
Carter, B., Blackadar, J., & Conner, W. (2021). When Computers Dream of Charcoal: Using Deep Learning, Open Tools, and Open Data to Identify Relict Charcoal Hearths in and around State Game Lands in Pennsylvania. Advances in Archaeological Practice, 1-15.
Conner, W., Carter, B. and Blackadar, J., 2021. Geospatial and Image Data from the “When Computers Dream of Charcoal: Using Deep Learning, Open Tools and Open Data to Identify Relict Charcoal Hearths in and Around State Game Lands in Pennsylvania” Paper. Journal of Open Archaeology Data, 9, p.7. DOI: http://doi.org/10.5334/joad.80
Graham, S., and Simons, J., 2021, Listening to Dura Europos: An Experiment in Archaeological Image Sonification. Internet Archaeology 56.
Bone Trade: Studying the Online Trade in Human Remains with Machine Learning and Neural Networks
See project website at http://bonetrade.github.io
This project is funded by a SSHRC Insight Grant. It explores various computational ways to map and understand the extent, culture, and mechanics of the trade in human remains. Co-led with Dr. Damien Huffer, Honorary Adjunct Research Professor at Carleton. Current RAs are Cassandra McKenney, Jaime Simons, Alexander Lane, and Katherine Davidson.
Recent publications from this group include
Davidson K., Graham S., Huffer D. (2021) Exploring Taste Formation and Performance in the Illicit Trade of Human Remains on Instagram. In: Oosterman N., Yates D. (eds) Crime and Art. Studies in Art, Heritage, Law and the Market, vol 1. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-84856-9_3
Huffer, D., Guerreiro, A., & Graham, S. (2021). Osteological Assessment of a Seized Shipment of Modified Human Crania: Implications for Dayak Cultural Heritage Preservation and the Global Human Remains Trade. Journal of Borneo-Kalimantan, 7(1), 67-93. Retrieved from https://publisher.unimas.my/ojs/index.php/BJK/article/view/3622