Open Science in Archaeology: an Unconference – 7-8 November 2024
Date: 7 – 8 November 2024
Location: PLNT, Langegracht 70, 2312 NV LEIDEN, Netherlands
Credits: 1-2 ECT
Introduction
We aim to provide a venue, in the form of an unconference, where archaeologists with a (budding) passion for Open Science can meet to exchange ideas and experiences. During the unconference we also hope to improve awareness of Open Science in archaeology, as well as to help people convert awareness into practice by offering skill-up workshops and developing basic guidelines for practising and teaching Open Science. By bringing together experienced Open Science practitioners with researchers who are interested in employing Open Science in their research but don’t know where to begin, we will identify the needs of novice practitioners and develop useful guidelines for getting started with Open Science in archaeology. By organising an event specifically focused on Open Science as opposed to field-specific topics, we aim to bring together people from across archaeological subdisciplines who normally don’t have a platform for collaboration. The themes for the unconference will be Education, focusing on developing guidelines and integrating Open Science in the regular curricula, and AI, specifically concerning the ethics and reproducibility of its use in archaeology.
Day 1 will consist of workshops in the morning and presentations followed by discussions in the afternoon. We will end the day with a brainstorming session to discuss potential unconference outputs, followed by networking. Day 2 will be a half-day dedicated to working on the unconference outputs.
More information is available on the Unconference website: https://unarchaeology.nl
General programme
Day 1
9.30 – Arrival
10.00 – Welcome presentation
10.20 – Parallel Workshops: Multiple skill-up workshops will be given on Open Science-related topics
11.10 – Break Coffee/tea break
11.25 – Parallel Workshops (cont.)
12.15 – Marketplace/Lunch: Booths will be placed in the lunch area with various Open Science-related platforms/communities
13.30 – Talks: Proposed presentations will be voted on by participants during the morning and lunch
14.30 – Break coffee/tea break
14.45 – Discussions: Breakout rooms to discuss the talks and other potential topics determined by participants
15.30 – Brainstorming potential unconference outputs to be worked on during the hackathon on day 2
16.15 – Wrap-up
16.30 – Drinks and networking
Day 2 (optional)
09.00 – Hackathon/Brainstorming: Those who wish to stay for the optional second day will work on the unconference outputs
10.30 – Break Coffee/tea break
10.45 – Hackathon
12.30 – Lunch and wrap-up
For full details and updates, see the Unconference website.
Credits: ARCHON members can receive 1 ECT for attending the conference and handing in a reflection report afterwards.
Those who intend to apply to present a talk can earn 1 more ECT by writing an additional 500 words, incorporating their proposed talk and its relevance to the Unconference into their report and including any prepared presentation materials (Powerpoints, posters, etc.) in their e-mail to the ARCHON secretary. Note: you are eligible for this extra ECT regardless of whether your talk ends up being chosen to be presented at the Unconference.
Registration:
To register for this event, see details and instructions on the Unconference website.
Please reach out to the ARCHON secretary or Bjørn Bartholdy if you have any questions. We hope to see many of you there!
