ARIADNE Summer School: Emerging digital practices in archaeological research
As part of its Transnational Access (TNA) activities, the ARIADNE project is offering researchers the opportunity to apply to participate in Summer Schools and individual training visits to carry forwards their own research. For 2015, calls for applications will be opened every three months.
The first 2015 call for applications is open from 20 December 2014 to 22 March 2015.
Researchers are invited to apply to participate in Summer Schools hosted by Consiglio Nazionale Delle Ricerche and the Athena Research Centre (Athens) and also for individual training visits hosted by PIN and the Athena Research Centre (Xanthi). Individual work forms an important part of both the summer schools and individual visits, which provide opportunities to develop case studies or research projects proposed by participants under expert supervision.
We welcome applications from individuals with a scientific interest and ability to benefit from training in archaeological research data management.
Sponsorship is available up to 800 euros per participant (to cover the cost of travel and accommodation) plus a tuition fee waiver. Bursaries are awarded on a competitive basis and based upon the quality of the applicant, their proposed project, and their personal statement. 5-10 bursaries are available from ARIADNE in 2015 for each TNA centre.
ARIADNE Summer Schools are open to all researchers at a tuition fee of 500 euros. A maximum of 20 participants is planned for each summer school.
ARIADNE Summer School: Emerging digital practices in archaeological research (Athena RC)
Period: 28 June – 3 July 2015
Description of the TNA offered:
The goal is to enable researchers and professionals to engage with cutting edge and emerging digital practices of archaeological research, ranging from new methods to capture, organize and curate fieldwork information to new approaches to archaeological interpretation and dissemination, mediated by digital infrastructures. The TNA will provide ca. 20 researchers already engaged to some extent in digitally-enabled work (innovators, early adopters and early majority researchers, in Rogers’ diffusion of innovation model) with a structured format to share, discuss and elaborate innovative research practices and methods.
Format:
The TNA will focus on a detailed elaboration of a small number of scenarios or digitally-enabled archaeological research that make use of emerging digital infrastructures, tools and services, put in the context of select methodological sources on digital archaeology, bringing together the research experiences of participants, and leveraging the ARIADNE registry and other information systems, as well as ontological work on understanding archaeological practices and methods. It will combine formal presentations with structured discussion and breakout learner-oriented activities. Invited discussants and presenters will include members of the ARIADNE Special Interest Group on archaeological research methods and practices, collectively possessing significant expertise on digital archaeology, as well as visiting researchers attached to the network of foreign archaeological schools in Greece and neighbouring countries. Participants will be invited to co-author a report, summarizing lessons learned from the summer school, individual contributions, and a futures view on digital archaeology.
Pre-requisites:
An understanding of archaeological research principles and methods (excavation, survey, post-excavation, or artefact-based); exposure to at least one aspect of digitally-enabled archaeological work (e.g., digital capture, databases, GIS, 3D modelling, statistical analysis, e-publishing). Prior experience with digital methods, tools or infrastructures for research purposes is desirable.
