Investigating Archaeological Research Questions using a Linked Data framework
A presentation given to the Avebury & Stonehenge Archaeological & Historical Research Group, May 2015.
Geosemantic Tools for Archaeological ResearchPaul Cripps
Presentation given at the annual Postgraduate Researchers Presentation Day held at the University of South Wales Postgraduate Research Centre, Trefforest Campus.
21st Century Geospatial #HistEnv Data ManagementPaul Cripps
A keynote presentation given at the Towards a Collaborative Strategy for sector information management (TACOS) seminar held at the University of York, May 2014
GeoSemantic Technologies for Archaeological ResourcesPaul Cripps
The semantics of heritage data is a growing area of interest with ontologies such as the CIDOC-CRM providing semantic frameworks and exemplary projects such as STAR and STELLAR demonstrating what can be done using semantic technologies applied to archaeological resources. In the world of the Semantic Web, advances regarding geosemantics have emerged to extend research more fully into the spatio-temporal domain, for example extending the SPARQL standard to produce GeoSPARQL. Importantly, the use of semantic technologies, particularly the structure of RDF, aligns with graph and network based approaches, providing a rich fusion of techniques for geospatial analysis of heritage data expressed in such a manner.
This paper gives an overview of the ongoing G-STAR research project (GeoSemantic Technologies for Archaeological Resources) with reference to broader sectoral links particularly to commercial archaeology. Particular attention is paid to examining the integration of spatial data into the heritage Global Graph and the relationship between Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI) and Linked Data, moving beyond notions of ‘location’ as simple nodes, placenames and coordinates towards fuller support for complex geometries and advanced spatial reasoning. Finally, the potential impacts of such research is discussed with particular reference to the current practice of commercial archaeology, access to and publishing of (legacy, big) data, and leveraging network models to better understand and manage change within archaeological information systems.
Integrating archaeological data: The ARIADNE Infrastructure, Achille Felicett...ariadnenetwork
This presentation by Achille Felicetti of PIN (Università degli Studi di Firenze, Prato) on the work by the ARIADNE infrastructure to integrating archaeological data was given as part of a workshop organised by Digital Humanities Austria. The workshop focussed on the pressing question of long-term preservation of digital data from various angles, central being user needs specific to the different fields of the Humanities. Felicetti introduced the ARIADNE research infrastructure, which has been funded by the EC's FP7 programme, to integrate archaeological research datasets from across Europe and support their uses by researchers.
Geosemantic Tools for Archaeological ResearchPaul Cripps
Presentation given at the annual Postgraduate Researchers Presentation Day held at the University of South Wales Postgraduate Research Centre, Trefforest Campus.
21st Century Geospatial #HistEnv Data ManagementPaul Cripps
A keynote presentation given at the Towards a Collaborative Strategy for sector information management (TACOS) seminar held at the University of York, May 2014
GeoSemantic Technologies for Archaeological ResourcesPaul Cripps
The semantics of heritage data is a growing area of interest with ontologies such as the CIDOC-CRM providing semantic frameworks and exemplary projects such as STAR and STELLAR demonstrating what can be done using semantic technologies applied to archaeological resources. In the world of the Semantic Web, advances regarding geosemantics have emerged to extend research more fully into the spatio-temporal domain, for example extending the SPARQL standard to produce GeoSPARQL. Importantly, the use of semantic technologies, particularly the structure of RDF, aligns with graph and network based approaches, providing a rich fusion of techniques for geospatial analysis of heritage data expressed in such a manner.
This paper gives an overview of the ongoing G-STAR research project (GeoSemantic Technologies for Archaeological Resources) with reference to broader sectoral links particularly to commercial archaeology. Particular attention is paid to examining the integration of spatial data into the heritage Global Graph and the relationship between Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI) and Linked Data, moving beyond notions of ‘location’ as simple nodes, placenames and coordinates towards fuller support for complex geometries and advanced spatial reasoning. Finally, the potential impacts of such research is discussed with particular reference to the current practice of commercial archaeology, access to and publishing of (legacy, big) data, and leveraging network models to better understand and manage change within archaeological information systems.
Integrating archaeological data: The ARIADNE Infrastructure, Achille Felicett...ariadnenetwork
This presentation by Achille Felicetti of PIN (Università degli Studi di Firenze, Prato) on the work by the ARIADNE infrastructure to integrating archaeological data was given as part of a workshop organised by Digital Humanities Austria. The workshop focussed on the pressing question of long-term preservation of digital data from various angles, central being user needs specific to the different fields of the Humanities. Felicetti introduced the ARIADNE research infrastructure, which has been funded by the EC's FP7 programme, to integrate archaeological research datasets from across Europe and support their uses by researchers.
Innovative methods for data integration: Linked Data and NLPariadnenetwork
Linked Data (LD) + Natural Language Processing (NLP)
Two technologies that open up new possibilities for semantic integration of archaeological datasets and fieldwork reports.
Overview
•Illustrative early examples
- a flavour of progress and challenges to date
•NLP of grey literature (English – Dutch)
•Mapping between multilingual vocabularies
Presentation given by Franco Niccolucci in Berlin at the "Facing the Future" conference, 21-22 Nov 2013.
ARIADNE's activities in the first 9 months have included networking, setting up special interest groups, planning summer schools, research and developing the first services. The paper introduces the ARIADNE interoperability framework and the ARIADNE Catalogue Model (which underpin the project's registry) and the research and services that are under development
http://www.ariadne-infrastructure.eu
How the ARIADNE Infrastructure will bring together and integrate the existing archaeological research data infrastructures so that researchers can use the various distributed datasets and new and powerful technologies as an integral component of the archaeological research methodology.
DRI Community Forum: Collection Focus - Transport Infrastructure Irelanddri_ireland
Presentation given by Rónán Swan, Head of Archaeology and Heritage at Transport Infrastructure Ireland, at the 2017 DRI Community Forum, discussing working with DRI and Discovery Programme to ingest archaeological reports from over 20 years of TII pre-road-building excavations.
The ARIADNE interoperability framework, component architecture and registry s...ariadnenetwork
Presentation by Costis Dallas
Digital Curation Unit-IMIS, Athena Research Centre
Department of Communication, Media and Culture, Panteion University
Faculty of Information, University of Toronto
and
Dimitris Gavrilis
Digital Curation Unit-IMIS, Athena Research Centre
Full-day session on archaeological infrastructures and services at the 18th Cultural Heritage and New Technologies (CHNT) conference
Vienna, Austria
11th -13th November 2013
From the CNI Fall 2014 conference in Washington:
http://www.cni.org/topics/digital-libraries/developments-in-digital-repositories/
The National Library of Wales has developed a large number of digital resources (including newspapers, archives, manuscripts and photographs) that are freely available as a national digital public library for Wales. Development of this material has involved research and innovation in all aspects of the digital life cycle, and development of an underlying digital infrastructure, to support the creation of open and sustainable digital collections that can be used, and re-used, by the widest range of stakeholders. Central to this has been the development of digital content in collaboration with national and international partners. This presentation will discuss this national context for Cynefin, a recent project developed in collaboration with the Archives and Records Council Wales (ARCW) and funded by the UK’s Heritage Lottery Fund. The project will digitize over a thousand tithe maps covering 95% of Wales between the period 1838 and 1947. The project has explored new approaches to crowd sourcing to geo locate the tithe maps and transcribe related apportionments, and also to develop links between content in the collections, linking location, ownership, land use and value. The project has also had to find innovative ways to digitize large tithe maps, including the use of an automated tripod head originally developed to capture panoramic landscapes and the construction of a specifically designed wall to ensure a consistent horizontal distance from the camera. The digital images have been ingested into a Fedora repository and shared using the IIIF standard. The crowd-sourcing element will be released to the public at the beginning of November 2014 and the initial results of the uptake and engagement of volunteers will be discussed in the presentation. The digital preservation of the tithe maps, apportionments and the crowd-sourced data will present future challenges, and approaches to these issues will also be discussed. This project is a potential model for other institutions to leverage the resources of the crowd to produce a useful and enduring digital humanities resource.
http://chicagocollectionsconsortium.org/
http://cynefinblog.archiveswales.org.uk/?p=195
http://welshnewspapers.llgc.org.uk/en/home
http://cymru1914.org/en
Developing common European archaeological concepts through extending the CIDO...ariadnenetwork
Presentation by Martin Doerr
Center for Cultural Informatics, Institute of Computer Science
Foundation for Research and Technology – Hellas
and
Gerald Hiebel
Center for Cultural Informatics, Institute of Computer Science
Foundation for Research and Technology – Hellas,
University of Innsbruck, AB Vermessung und Geoinformation
Full-day session on archaeological infrastructures and services at the 18th Cultural Heritage and New Technologies (CHNT) conference
Vienna, Austria
11th -13th November 2013
The Dublinked Data Visualisation Competition was officially launched on Wednesday 19th March 2014, as part of the Dublinked Innovation Network’s second Data Visualisation event, held in NUI Maynooth. Speakers on the day included Andy Kirk (VisualisingData.com), Eoghan McCarthy (AIRO NUIM) and Oliver Mooney (GetBulb). The event received great turnout with over 50 people in attendance, of those in attendance skill sets ranged from data visualisation novice, enthusiast to expert. Read More via Dublinked.ie
Comparing and matching archaeological excavation data for integration in onto...ariadnenetwork
Presentation by Anja Masur and Keith May
OAW ( Austrian Academy of Sciences).
OREA (Institute for Oriental and European Archaeology).
English Heritage;
University of South Wales
Full-day session on archaeological infrastructures and services at the 18th Cultural Heritage and New Technologies (CHNT) conference
Vienna, Austria
11th -13th November 2013
Deploy of CENIEH’s new institutional repositoryariadnenetwork
Presentation given by María José De Miguel Del Barrio and Javier Valladolid Aguinaga of CENIEH at the ARIADNE winter school about the deployment of CENIEH’s new institutional repository. The presentation introduces the research carried out by CENIEH and the collections that are held, and the work to develop an institutional repository to integrate diverse datasets.
Linked Open Data and The Digital Archaeological Workflow at the Swedish Natio...Marcus Smith
A presentation of two aspects of the linked open data work ongoing at the Swedish National Heritage Board (Riksantikvarieämbetet): Swedish Open Cultural Heritage (SOCH/K-samsök) and the Digital Archaeological Process (DAP).
Delivered at the Smithsonian, Washington, DC, 2014-11-10
Innovative methods for data integration: Linked Data and NLPariadnenetwork
Linked Data (LD) + Natural Language Processing (NLP)
Two technologies that open up new possibilities for semantic integration of archaeological datasets and fieldwork reports.
Overview
•Illustrative early examples
- a flavour of progress and challenges to date
•NLP of grey literature (English – Dutch)
•Mapping between multilingual vocabularies
Presentation given by Franco Niccolucci in Berlin at the "Facing the Future" conference, 21-22 Nov 2013.
ARIADNE's activities in the first 9 months have included networking, setting up special interest groups, planning summer schools, research and developing the first services. The paper introduces the ARIADNE interoperability framework and the ARIADNE Catalogue Model (which underpin the project's registry) and the research and services that are under development
http://www.ariadne-infrastructure.eu
How the ARIADNE Infrastructure will bring together and integrate the existing archaeological research data infrastructures so that researchers can use the various distributed datasets and new and powerful technologies as an integral component of the archaeological research methodology.
DRI Community Forum: Collection Focus - Transport Infrastructure Irelanddri_ireland
Presentation given by Rónán Swan, Head of Archaeology and Heritage at Transport Infrastructure Ireland, at the 2017 DRI Community Forum, discussing working with DRI and Discovery Programme to ingest archaeological reports from over 20 years of TII pre-road-building excavations.
The ARIADNE interoperability framework, component architecture and registry s...ariadnenetwork
Presentation by Costis Dallas
Digital Curation Unit-IMIS, Athena Research Centre
Department of Communication, Media and Culture, Panteion University
Faculty of Information, University of Toronto
and
Dimitris Gavrilis
Digital Curation Unit-IMIS, Athena Research Centre
Full-day session on archaeological infrastructures and services at the 18th Cultural Heritage and New Technologies (CHNT) conference
Vienna, Austria
11th -13th November 2013
From the CNI Fall 2014 conference in Washington:
http://www.cni.org/topics/digital-libraries/developments-in-digital-repositories/
The National Library of Wales has developed a large number of digital resources (including newspapers, archives, manuscripts and photographs) that are freely available as a national digital public library for Wales. Development of this material has involved research and innovation in all aspects of the digital life cycle, and development of an underlying digital infrastructure, to support the creation of open and sustainable digital collections that can be used, and re-used, by the widest range of stakeholders. Central to this has been the development of digital content in collaboration with national and international partners. This presentation will discuss this national context for Cynefin, a recent project developed in collaboration with the Archives and Records Council Wales (ARCW) and funded by the UK’s Heritage Lottery Fund. The project will digitize over a thousand tithe maps covering 95% of Wales between the period 1838 and 1947. The project has explored new approaches to crowd sourcing to geo locate the tithe maps and transcribe related apportionments, and also to develop links between content in the collections, linking location, ownership, land use and value. The project has also had to find innovative ways to digitize large tithe maps, including the use of an automated tripod head originally developed to capture panoramic landscapes and the construction of a specifically designed wall to ensure a consistent horizontal distance from the camera. The digital images have been ingested into a Fedora repository and shared using the IIIF standard. The crowd-sourcing element will be released to the public at the beginning of November 2014 and the initial results of the uptake and engagement of volunteers will be discussed in the presentation. The digital preservation of the tithe maps, apportionments and the crowd-sourced data will present future challenges, and approaches to these issues will also be discussed. This project is a potential model for other institutions to leverage the resources of the crowd to produce a useful and enduring digital humanities resource.
http://chicagocollectionsconsortium.org/
http://cynefinblog.archiveswales.org.uk/?p=195
http://welshnewspapers.llgc.org.uk/en/home
http://cymru1914.org/en
Developing common European archaeological concepts through extending the CIDO...ariadnenetwork
Presentation by Martin Doerr
Center for Cultural Informatics, Institute of Computer Science
Foundation for Research and Technology – Hellas
and
Gerald Hiebel
Center for Cultural Informatics, Institute of Computer Science
Foundation for Research and Technology – Hellas,
University of Innsbruck, AB Vermessung und Geoinformation
Full-day session on archaeological infrastructures and services at the 18th Cultural Heritage and New Technologies (CHNT) conference
Vienna, Austria
11th -13th November 2013
The Dublinked Data Visualisation Competition was officially launched on Wednesday 19th March 2014, as part of the Dublinked Innovation Network’s second Data Visualisation event, held in NUI Maynooth. Speakers on the day included Andy Kirk (VisualisingData.com), Eoghan McCarthy (AIRO NUIM) and Oliver Mooney (GetBulb). The event received great turnout with over 50 people in attendance, of those in attendance skill sets ranged from data visualisation novice, enthusiast to expert. Read More via Dublinked.ie
Comparing and matching archaeological excavation data for integration in onto...ariadnenetwork
Presentation by Anja Masur and Keith May
OAW ( Austrian Academy of Sciences).
OREA (Institute for Oriental and European Archaeology).
English Heritage;
University of South Wales
Full-day session on archaeological infrastructures and services at the 18th Cultural Heritage and New Technologies (CHNT) conference
Vienna, Austria
11th -13th November 2013
Deploy of CENIEH’s new institutional repositoryariadnenetwork
Presentation given by María José De Miguel Del Barrio and Javier Valladolid Aguinaga of CENIEH at the ARIADNE winter school about the deployment of CENIEH’s new institutional repository. The presentation introduces the research carried out by CENIEH and the collections that are held, and the work to develop an institutional repository to integrate diverse datasets.
Linked Open Data and The Digital Archaeological Workflow at the Swedish Natio...Marcus Smith
A presentation of two aspects of the linked open data work ongoing at the Swedish National Heritage Board (Riksantikvarieämbetet): Swedish Open Cultural Heritage (SOCH/K-samsök) and the Digital Archaeological Process (DAP).
Delivered at the Smithsonian, Washington, DC, 2014-11-10
Presentation by Saskia Scheltjens (Rijksmuseum Amsterdam) on October 31st 2016 at the workshop Two Birds, One Stone: Bridging cultural heritage collections with crowds and niches.
Irina Bastrakova, GV. Sample management and International geo-sample number (ISGN) implementation at geoscience Australia.
2 Nov 2016, Canberra. International Geo-Sample Number (IGSN) Symposium.
Chaos&Order: Using visualization as a means to explore large heritage collec...TimelessFuture
*note: download original powerpoint to view animations*. Presentation at 4th Int. Alexandria Workshop (19./20. October 2017) - Foundations for Temporal Retrieval, Exploration and Analytics in Web Archives.
These are the slides and text used for webinar given on Wednesday, January 16, 2013 on the new web page for the Life of a Dataset, and depositing data at ICPSR.
This presentation starts with basic information about the Social Science Data Archives. Then it mostly introduces complexity and diversity of research data field. Participants can learn about Open Data project in Slovenia, about research lifecycle and research data lifecycle. And it concludes with roles and responsibilities in research data lifecycle.
Event was one of Foster Cessda trainings for doctoral students.
Videos: http://videolectures.net/adptecaj2015_ljubljana/
Related link: https://www.fosteropenscience.eu/event/cessda-research-data-management-open-data-doctoral-training-series-research-data-management
Crowdsourcing as productive engagement with cultural heritageMia
My keynote for the iSay conference "The Shape of Things"
http://isayevents.wordpress.com/shapeofthings/program/
My notes from the conference are at http://openobjects.blogspot.co.uk/2013/02/notes-from-shape-of-things-new-and.html
Welcome to the Mountain West Digital Library: Update for New PartnersRebekah Cummings
In this webinar, Sandra and Rebekah talk about how the MWDL network came together and how partners work together across the region. They will also discuss how to join the Mountain West Digital Library, what it means to be an MWDL partner, and the benefits of partnership.
Presentation delivered by Josie Caplehorne (Kent University partnership project with Rochester Cathedral) at "Cataloguing and Organisation of Special Collections: by Library Association of Ireland: Rare Books + Cataloguing & Metadata Groups" - Fri 23 March 2018
A University Technical College for Wiltshire; Specialising in Science and En...Paul Cripps
A presentation given by Clive Duggleby (General Manager, Tetricus Science Park) to Salisbury Cafe Scientifique, November 2012
See the Cafe Scientifique website for more information:
http://cafescientifiquesalisbury.org.uk/2012/11/wiltshire-utc/
Archaeological Computing Research Group (ACRG) Seminar: Digital Spatial Techn...Paul Cripps
Digital Spatial Technologies have become central to modern archaeological practice. There are a number of interrelated strands to this which can be broadly categorised as capture, management, analysis/interpretation, visualisation and dissemination.
Techniques and technologies used to capture spatial data include: Total Station Theodolites (TST), Terrestrial Laser Scanners (TLS), Airborne Laser Scanners (ALS) and Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS); computational photography including Reflectance Transformation Imaging (RTI), Structure from Motion (SfM) and photogrammetry.
Allied with this are tools and techniques to support management, analysis, visualisation and dissemination including more robust, ontologically driven, semantically enabled data models and Archaeological Information Systems (AIS) to handle both spatial and spatially referenced digital data and all manner of visualisations and interfaces (2D, 3D, graphs, web, portals, etc) for resource discovery, analysis and dissemination.
Digital resources are being made accessible like never before, with spatiality forming a key component, opening up new potential with platforms such as Google Earth and Spatial Data Infrastructures (SDI) for research, public access and heritage management either here, now, or becoming possible, drawing on and breathing new life into archaeological archives and indices.
All of this combines to help us as archaeologists create richer, multi-vocal, data driven narratives and theoretical frameworks and ultimately better understand the past and convey this to a wider audience. Drawing on experiences from one of the UKs largest archaeological units as well as ongoing projects across the heritage domain in which I have participated or observed, this talk aims to give a personal view on where we as a discipline are at and some ideas for where we can go next.
Presentation given at the Computer Applications in Archaeology UK Chapter Meeting, April 2011, held at the University of Birmingham.
The subject is the use of terrestrial and airborne laser scanners in heritage contexts.
Survey in the new millennium: Tools for the 21st century archaeologistPaul Cripps
A talk given at Digital Past: New Technologies in Heritage, Interpretation and Outreach. RCHMW Seminar. A seminar organised to guide heritage managers, education and outreach officers, and museum and local government officers in Wales and further
afield through some of the newest technologies available for researching and promoting heritage sites. This was done through the medium of papers presented by key speakers who talked through practical examples where such technologies have been used, what their problems and experiences may have been and the practical outcomes for communities or heritage managers
To OO or not to OO? Revelations from defining an ontology for an archaeologic...Paul Cripps
A presentation given by Keith May and me at CAA 2004 held in Prato, Italy. The topic was a sub-project which emerged from the English Heritage Revelation project; the Ontological Modelling project. This project looked at a range of existing data models, paper forms, databases and other source information and through discussions with domain specialists, created a representation of the information archaeologists use based on the CIDOC Conceptual Reference Model (CRM).
Public Access through technology; Using archaeological computing to interact ...Paul Cripps
A presentation given at Strode College for students from the University of Plymouth, Truro College and Strode College , aimed at given them an overview on how technology is used to engage with the public using examples from Wessex Archaeology and other sources
Of Henges, Rock Art & Lasers; An application of Laser-Scanning techniques at ...Paul Cripps
A presentation given in May 2005 at the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge, on behalf of the Stonehenge Laser Scan project team. The presentation was aimed at highlighting some of the results and well as the technologies used.
Thinking in bits; archaeological theory and computing, past, present and future.Paul Cripps
A presentation given at TAG 2008 at University of Southampton on the subject of the changing nature of archaeological computing and its relationship with archaeological theory and the broader discipline of archaeology
The use of Spatial Technologies and digital tools and techniques in ArchaeologyPaul Cripps
A presentation given the MSc students studying Archaeological Computing at the University of Southampton on the subject of spatial technologies in archaeology drawing on the tools and technologies used by Wessex Archaeology and other practitioners of archaeological computing, aimed at giving them an idea of what is and what can be done. Part of a CAA seminar series.
I’m on the train; shall I email you my coordinates…? Mobile Geographic Inform...Paul Cripps
A paper given at the IFA conference on the subject of mobile spatial technologies and their impact on archaeology. Part of the session entitled "‘I’m on the train!’ - new technologies and the historic environment: a practical guide for geeks, nerds and technophobes" organised by John Schofield, English Heritage.
Pathways through the Avebury Landscape; A study of spatial relationships asso...Paul Cripps
This project is an investigation into the spatial relationships associated with the
Beckhampton Avenue, Avebury, Wilts. through the Neolithic period; The study
region comprises the Beckhampton avenue and its environs. Notably, the study will
attempt to investigate dynamic spatial relationships, i.e. those associated with moving
around/through a landscape rather than from static viewpoints, as a means to shed
light on the position and development of the Beckhampton Avenue, which can be
seen as a formalised route, influencing movement. These relationships are to be
investigated by means of the concept of intervisibility using both the analytical
approach afforded by GIS techniques and a more subjective, reflexive approach
facilitated by an interactive three-dimensional model.
Pathways, Perception and the development of Place; Computational approaches t...Paul Cripps
Presentation given at the “Exploring Research” - The Faculty of Law, Arts and Social Science Conference, University of Southampton, Jun 7th 2005.
Based on presentation given at CAA 2005 held in Tomar, Portugal. Presenting my PhD research to a non-archaeological, non-technical audience.
The Amphora Project; an online resource for the study of Roman AmphoraePaul Cripps
The computing aspects of the Amphora project, presented on behalf of the project team (Simon Keay, David Williams, Penny Copeland, Jill Philips, Paul Cripps, Jo Gilham, Graeme Earl and Tony Austin).
The project is online at the Archaeology Data Service:
http://ads.ahds.ac.uk/catalogue/archive/amphora_ahrb_2005/
Honest Reviews of Tim Han LMA Course Program.pptxtimhan337
Personal development courses are widely available today, with each one promising life-changing outcomes. Tim Han’s Life Mastery Achievers (LMA) Course has drawn a lot of interest. In addition to offering my frank assessment of Success Insider’s LMA Course, this piece examines the course’s effects via a variety of Tim Han LMA course reviews and Success Insider comments.
June 3, 2024 Anti-Semitism Letter Sent to MIT President Kornbluth and MIT Cor...Levi Shapiro
Letter from the Congress of the United States regarding Anti-Semitism sent June 3rd to MIT President Sally Kornbluth, MIT Corp Chair, Mark Gorenberg
Dear Dr. Kornbluth and Mr. Gorenberg,
The US House of Representatives is deeply concerned by ongoing and pervasive acts of antisemitic
harassment and intimidation at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Failing to act decisively to ensure a safe learning environment for all students would be a grave dereliction of your responsibilities as President of MIT and Chair of the MIT Corporation.
This Congress will not stand idly by and allow an environment hostile to Jewish students to persist. The House believes that your institution is in violation of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, and the inability or
unwillingness to rectify this violation through action requires accountability.
Postsecondary education is a unique opportunity for students to learn and have their ideas and beliefs challenged. However, universities receiving hundreds of millions of federal funds annually have denied
students that opportunity and have been hijacked to become venues for the promotion of terrorism, antisemitic harassment and intimidation, unlawful encampments, and in some cases, assaults and riots.
The House of Representatives will not countenance the use of federal funds to indoctrinate students into hateful, antisemitic, anti-American supporters of terrorism. Investigations into campus antisemitism by the Committee on Education and the Workforce and the Committee on Ways and Means have been expanded into a Congress-wide probe across all relevant jurisdictions to address this national crisis. The undersigned Committees will conduct oversight into the use of federal funds at MIT and its learning environment under authorities granted to each Committee.
• The Committee on Education and the Workforce has been investigating your institution since December 7, 2023. The Committee has broad jurisdiction over postsecondary education, including its compliance with Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, campus safety concerns over disruptions to the learning environment, and the awarding of federal student aid under the Higher Education Act.
• The Committee on Oversight and Accountability is investigating the sources of funding and other support flowing to groups espousing pro-Hamas propaganda and engaged in antisemitic harassment and intimidation of students. The Committee on Oversight and Accountability is the principal oversight committee of the US House of Representatives and has broad authority to investigate “any matter” at “any time” under House Rule X.
• The Committee on Ways and Means has been investigating several universities since November 15, 2023, when the Committee held a hearing entitled From Ivory Towers to Dark Corners: Investigating the Nexus Between Antisemitism, Tax-Exempt Universities, and Terror Financing. The Committee followed the hearing with letters to those institutions on January 10, 202
Embracing GenAI - A Strategic ImperativePeter Windle
Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies such as Generative AI, Image Generators and Large Language Models have had a dramatic impact on teaching, learning and assessment over the past 18 months. The most immediate threat AI posed was to Academic Integrity with Higher Education Institutes (HEIs) focusing their efforts on combating the use of GenAI in assessment. Guidelines were developed for staff and students, policies put in place too. Innovative educators have forged paths in the use of Generative AI for teaching, learning and assessments leading to pockets of transformation springing up across HEIs, often with little or no top-down guidance, support or direction.
This Gasta posits a strategic approach to integrating AI into HEIs to prepare staff, students and the curriculum for an evolving world and workplace. We will highlight the advantages of working with these technologies beyond the realm of teaching, learning and assessment by considering prompt engineering skills, industry impact, curriculum changes, and the need for staff upskilling. In contrast, not engaging strategically with Generative AI poses risks, including falling behind peers, missed opportunities and failing to ensure our graduates remain employable. The rapid evolution of AI technologies necessitates a proactive and strategic approach if we are to remain relevant.
Introduction to AI for Nonprofits with Tapp NetworkTechSoup
Dive into the world of AI! Experts Jon Hill and Tareq Monaur will guide you through AI's role in enhancing nonprofit websites and basic marketing strategies, making it easy to understand and apply.
Normal Labour/ Stages of Labour/ Mechanism of LabourWasim Ak
Normal labor is also termed spontaneous labor, defined as the natural physiological process through which the fetus, placenta, and membranes are expelled from the uterus through the birth canal at term (37 to 42 weeks
A Strategic Approach: GenAI in EducationPeter Windle
Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies such as Generative AI, Image Generators and Large Language Models have had a dramatic impact on teaching, learning and assessment over the past 18 months. The most immediate threat AI posed was to Academic Integrity with Higher Education Institutes (HEIs) focusing their efforts on combating the use of GenAI in assessment. Guidelines were developed for staff and students, policies put in place too. Innovative educators have forged paths in the use of Generative AI for teaching, learning and assessments leading to pockets of transformation springing up across HEIs, often with little or no top-down guidance, support or direction.
This Gasta posits a strategic approach to integrating AI into HEIs to prepare staff, students and the curriculum for an evolving world and workplace. We will highlight the advantages of working with these technologies beyond the realm of teaching, learning and assessment by considering prompt engineering skills, industry impact, curriculum changes, and the need for staff upskilling. In contrast, not engaging strategically with Generative AI poses risks, including falling behind peers, missed opportunities and failing to ensure our graduates remain employable. The rapid evolution of AI technologies necessitates a proactive and strategic approach if we are to remain relevant.
Unit 8 - Information and Communication Technology (Paper I).pdfThiyagu K
This slides describes the basic concepts of ICT, basics of Email, Emerging Technology and Digital Initiatives in Education. This presentations aligns with the UGC Paper I syllabus.
Unit 8 - Information and Communication Technology (Paper I).pdf
Linked Geospatial Data for Archaeological Research
1. Avebury & Stonehenge Archaeological & Historical Research Group meeting – May 2015
Linked Geospatial Data for
Archaeological Research
Paul Cripps
University of South Wales, Trefforest, UK
• Hypermedia Research Group
• Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Research Group
Archaeogeomancy, Salisbury, UK
http://gstar.archaeogeomancy.net/
InvestigatingArchaeologicalResearchQuestions
usingaLinkedDataframework
2. Avebury & Stonehenge Archaeological & Historical Research Group meeting – May 2015
Introduction
• What’s all this then…?
• Linked Data
• Linked Geospatial Data
• GSTAR:
• Resource
• Research workflows
• Research Questions
Earthorama by spdorsey http://flic.kr/p/69C5QD
3. Avebury & Stonehenge Archaeological & Historical Research Group meeting – May 2015
What’s all this then…?
• Linked Data
• Publishing framework
• Querying framework
• Links (online) resources together
• Querying across diverse resources
• Uses ontologies as semantic glue
• Based on concepts not terms
• Vocabulary providers content
• Growing engagement in heritage sector:
• Historic England, Historic Scotland, Archaeology Data
Service, systems developers/designers/architects
4. Avebury & Stonehenge Archaeological & Historical Research Group meeting – May 2015
Linked (Geospatial) Data
• LD comprises assertions
• <concept uri><relationship><concept uri>
• <Stonehenge><hasType><henge>
• LGD adds spatial properties, relationships
• <Stonehenge><has depiction><polygon>
• <Stone circle><spatially within><henge>
• Possible to model assertions, evidence,
inference & propagate change
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Interoperating
Graphic from Towards a Collaborative
Strategy for sector information
management (TACOS) seminar,
University of York, May 2014
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ColonisationofBritainLinkedData
Wessex Archaeology, Archaeology Data Service
Linked Data resource built using STELLAR Toolkit including Ordnance Survey Open Data
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GSTAR
• GeoSemantic Technologies for
Archaeological Research
• Doctoral research project
• Investigating LGD for Archaeological Research
• Due for completion April 2016
• Building on:
• core CIDOC CRM (cultural heritage domain
ontology)
• CRMEH extension (archaeology ontology)
• GeoSPARQL (spatial ontology)
• Heritage Data vocabularies (content)
• Ordnance Survey Linked Open Data (content)
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GSTAR – Research workflows
• Current workflow:
• Request data
• Collate & Process
• Concordance
• Produce new,
standalone resource
• Assessment, Analysis
• Snapshot reporting,
narratives
• Archive
• (Repeat…)
• Proposed workflow:
• Consume data
• Assessment, Analysis
• Augment data
• Data driven reporting,
narratives
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GSTAR – Resources
• Study Area: Stonehenge
• Sources:
• Wiltshire HER (c. 2K Monuments; 1K Events;
26K Sources)
• Wiltshire Museums (c. 44K objects)
• Wessex Archaeology archives (20 projects;
trial trenches, fieldwalking, testpits, etc)
• Historic England (designation records)
• Ordnance Survey (Parishes, places, etc)
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GSTAR – Research Questions
• Engage Domain Experts (aka you!)
• Given the available resource:
• Topics?
• Themes?
• Specific Questions?
• Burning Issues?
• Granularity
• Detailed questions, guided by Research
Framework, supported by data
• To form the basis for evaluating GSTAR
resource & workflows
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GSTAR – Research Questions
• Example themes:
• Associations, relationships, patterns:
• Object data: properties, classifications, dating,
locations
• Fieldwork data: features, finds, dating,
locations
• Monument data: properties, classifications,
dating, locations
• Particular focus on spatial elements
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fin
• paul.cripps@southwales.ac.uk
• paul@archaeogeomancy.net
• @pauljcripps
• gstar.archaeogeomancy.net
• hypermedia.research.southwales.ac.uk
• gis.research.southwales.ac.uk
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Acknowledgements
• Thanks to:
• University of South Wales – funding, supervision, advice
• Archaeology Data Service – data from their archives
• Wessex Archaeology – data, photographs and images
• Wiltshire Council – access to the Historic Environment Record
(HER) data
• Wiltshire Museums – access to museum collections data
• Personal thanks
• Supervisors/Advisors: Doug Tudhope, Mark Ware, Alex Lohfink
• Research group: Ceri Binding, Andreas Vlachidis, Keith May
• Peers and colleagues: Michael Charno, Chris Brayne, Gerald
Heibel, David Dawson
• Image Credit
• Earthorama by spdorsey http://flic.kr/p/69C5QD