Hello, everyone. I'm Daphne, and I'm currently a student at the University of Toronto in Canada. I started off as an archaeological science and computer science double major, but have since leaned more towards the computer science side. I was really excited to discover Arches on the GSoC site because it helps to solve a problem I've personally encountered. In my cartography class last year, I wanted to do a research project on the proximity of violence during the War in Afghanistan to the country's archaeological sites. I found the website of a phd student who had mapped many of the heritage sites in Afghanistan, but unfortunately he had only released this data as a jpg, and the image was too small-scale to be of use to me. Despite my best efforts, I couldn't get into contact with the guy to ask him for his data.
This is a huge problem in archaeology. In the excavations I've been on, records were still in large part done by hand, and even when they are digitized, there isn't always a straightforward path available for researchers to make this data publicly accessible. Arches looks like it's taking a big step toward addressing this, and I hope to have some time in the next few days to start familiarizing myself with its implementation. Unfortunately right now I am working in a windowless computer lab on campus :( but I look forward to finally having some sunny days that aren't freezing later this week. On Wednesday, 13 March 2013 06:29:01 UTC-4, Edmund Lee wrote: > > Hello all, ... and welcome in particular to those who have joined the > Arches Discussion Forum recently. > > This online group was initially set up for the project team, and has just > recently been opened up as the public, so some of us haven't met before. > How about we all share a bit of background, just like we would if we were > meeting in the real world? If that sounds good to you, reply to this thread > and share with the group some or all of the following: > > - what is your interest in Arches? > > > - where in the world are you working? > > and, just to make it a bit more fun, > > - what can you see out of the window? Is there any heritage in your > view? > > I look forward to getting to know everyone a bit better! > > > Ed > -- -- To post, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected]. For more information, visit https://groups.google.com/d/forum/archesproject?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Arches Project" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
