Digital Archaeology and Data Reuse Edit

This course provided students with a space to develop their digital literacy in archaeological contexts. We used a combination of lecture, discussions, and computer work to engage students in ways to create, manage, combine, and reuse archaeological data, while also confronting emerging issues in the field related to the increased use of digital technologies: data accuracy, data ethics, ownership, open data, public engagement, ‘big data.’ There were no expectations of a coding or data analysis background - this course was about exploration and experimentation. Students were not expected to emerge from this course with a complete knowledge of how to perform complex analyses on digital datasets – rather, this course instilled an underlying framework for how to think about archaeology and the data that archaeologists produce. It fostered an understanding of the principles that are beginning to guide archaeological research in the 21st century. As social science disciplines increasingly move towards reliance on digital datasets for recording, research, accessibility, and archiving, it is now incumbent upon developing scholars to be familiar with the ways in which digital data can used, and how they are impacting research practices. During the 2020 Spring semester, a course was taught at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee in the Department of Anthropology on digital archaeology and data reuse. This GitHub repo contains the syllabus for this course, which you should feel free to use, modify, or pick and choose. In the Class Activities section in this README you will find links to other repos that contain class activities that you can also use. Please note that this course was designed for undergraduate and graduate archaeology students with NO experience in these digital tools, so the activities are pretty basic.

Source

@misc{garstki_kgarstkiintroduction-digital-archaeology-course_2023,
	title = {kgarstki/{Introduction}-{Digital}-{Archaeology}-{Course}},
	url = {https://github.com/kgarstki/Introduction-Digital-Archaeology-Course},
	urldate = {2024-01-31},
	author = {Garstki, Kevin},
	month = feb,
	year = {2023},
	note = {original-date: 2020-05-22T21:29:17Z},
}