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Data transparency is essential to foster (re)use of data and to increase comparability between datasets. Knowing how a 3D artefact of a particular vessel was produced, allows to assess its efficacy in comparing it with another 3D artefact. This kind of paradata about the production, however, does not necessarily improve the data itself hence its comparability. To respond to this inconsistency in the creative practices of 3D data, workflows should be aligned, and therefore recorded, shared and reproduced in a similar way in order to produce qualitatively balanced 3D artefacts. In this light, the workflow is the paradata. This is not a mechanical process but a complex social negotiation occurring within the wider community of practice. No data object, whether analogue or digital, is produced in isolation, nor can its specific way of production be learned in seclusion. The conceptual framework Tradition in Transition provides guidance in documenting such practice. It combines praxeological theory derived from sociology, such as the chaîne opératoire approach and reflexivity. In this talk, I will present case studies of the visualization practice of recording pottery and demonstrate how this was documented, assessed, transferred and, finally, reproduced to produce similar visual results with the Tradition in Transition methodology.

Dr Loes Opgenhaffen is lecturer in archaeology and digital practice at the Saxion University of Applied Sciences (School of Business, Building and Technology) and affiliated researcher at the University of Amsterdam (ACASA-Department of Archaeology). Her PhD research focused on how both past and modern practices respond to the introduction of new technology. Loes currently focuses on developing new 3D workflows for educational purposes and experiments with 3D recording solutions and its application to capture challenging geometries, materials or extremely small-sized objects. Her research continues revolve on the impact of technology on archaeological visualization and knowledge-making traditions.

A version of the video with closed captions can be found on YouTube.

Kontaktperson för denna film
Isto Huvila, Institutionen för ABM

Kanalinformation

CAPTURE research project investigates what information about the creation and use of research data that is paradata) is needed and how to capture enough of that information to make the data reusable in the future. The wickedness of the problem lies in the practical impossibility to document and keep everything and the difficulty to determine how to capture just enough. The empirical focus of CAPTURE is archaeological and cultural heritage data, which stands out by its extreme heterogeneity and rapid accumulation due to the scale of ongoing development-led archaeological fieldwork. Within and beyond this specific context, CAPTURE develops an in-depth understanding of how paradata is being created and used today, elicits methods for capturing paradata, tests new methods in field trials, and synthesises the findings in a reference model to inform the capturing of paradata and enabling data-intensive research using heterogeneous research data stemming from diverse origins. This project has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme grant agreement No 818210.

1. CAPTURE Talk #1 Dr. Sarah Callaghan: Frontiers of data publishing
2. CAPTURE Talk #2 Dr Samantha Kanza & Dr Nicola Knight - One Does Not Simply ?Digitise Scientific Research?: The Challenges and Opportunities of Technology in the 21st Century
3. CAPTURE Talk #3 Dr. Kathleen Gregory: Disciplining data
4. Capture Talk #4 Dr Elaine Sullivan ReConstructing Saqqara Challenges in 3D Data Visualization and publication
5. CAPTURE Talk #5 Isabel Eiser: D-WISE: With Manual and Digital Approaches towards a Tool Suite for Discourse Analysis
6. Capture Talk #6 Dr Åsa Berggren: Changing archaeological documentation practices and consequences for our data
7. CAPTURE #7 CAPTURE Talk: Loes Opgenhaffen - Paradata as protocol. Mapping archaeological practice with the Tradition in Transition methodology
8. Recording of a book launch event for Perspectives on Paradata: Research and Practice of Documenting Process Knowledge