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Our next meeting takes place this Friday, July 4 at our usual time (4 PM CEST / 10 AM EST)

The agenda is quite light this month, which is a great opportunity for open discussion. Please bookmark any inspiring papers, news or resources to share with the group! Otherwise, we can share what we have been up to and make plans for new collectively maintained initiatives. See you there!

https://mcgill.zoom.us/j/2320704440

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#DigitalArchaeology #ComputationalArchaeology

2 days ago
Zack Batist
zackbatist@archaeo.social

@evanwill I also wonder if this counts as supervised application of LLMs for qualitative research??

June 26, 2025
Zack Batist
zackbatist@archaeo.social

@evanwill Yep I completely agree! It is super distracting and may potentially lead to creating bad data. I still haven't figured out how to turn off suggestions for git commit messages.

June 26, 2025
Zack Batist
zackbatist@archaeo.social

So I'm using a CLI-based qualitative data analysis system (it's great! https://qualitative-coding.readthedocs.io) that I integrate into my VSCode workspace. I happened to start experimenting with copilot last week and today when I started qualitative coding I noticed it was offering me suggestions. Seems to be based on my prior codings rather than the actual file from the corpus, but still a bit eerie and not sure if I want to keep this on or not.

#CAQDAS #QualitativeDataAnalysis

June 26, 2025
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Sabina Leonelli
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#OpenScience lobbyists, skeptics and everything in between: consider coming to Munich in May 2026 (gorgeous time to visit..) to discuss the future of Open Research!

FOR2026 is open for submissions, deadline 30/09/2025: https://opensciencestudies.eu/for-2026-conference/

June 25, 2025
Zack Batist
zackbatist@archaeo.social

@felwert I absolutely agree. I do like how it's very clear about how it processes information and maintains the human as the leading actor, but I'm not sure how transparent it is about things it doesn't know that it doesn't know --- which to be fair, humans have a hard time with too, but it's more odious when there's a claim to store "all" human knowledge at scale. I'm not sure if this is what this service claims, but some others certainly do

June 24, 2025
Zack Batist
zackbatist@archaeo.social

@felwert Very poor quality for monographs, chapters in edited volumes and grey literature, and for anything not in english or from before the past ~15 years

June 24, 2025
Zack Batist
zackbatist@archaeo.social

@felwert If it's just using the same scholarly metadata sources as all the others, I don't see anything special about it. Garbage in, garbage out!

June 24, 2025
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Mathieu Jacomy
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I wish it was easier to capture more nuanced community structures. Because the real world is more complicated than two separated communities. It's does not boil down to "clusters". I wonder if we're obsessed with polarized structures because it's hard to see the more nuanced ones.

We may be in a computational social science conference, what I see is that design shapes the tools we use to think, and model the world.

I want to account for the nuance and ambiguity of the world!

5/5

June 24, 2025
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Samuel Moore
Samuelmoore@hcommons.social

Transparency as a substitute for governance: on Nature’s open review process

https://wp.me/paGQY4-ps

June 19, 2025
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Alain Queffelec
AlainQueffelec@archaeo.social

The DAFNEE database of academia-friendly journals is now using @OpenAlex instead of PubMed to find your papers for the author index.
That's great especially for #archaeology since most are not indexed in PubMed.
Go see the second tab on https://dafnee.isem-evolution.fr !
@GaltierNicolas

June 18, 2025
Zack Batist
zackbatist@archaeo.social

@tillgrallert I just realized that you're the dev for OpenArabicPE. I don't usually work with TEI so I stumbled on your tool to convert TEI to bibtex (for initial validation and learning purposes, since I'm more familiar with the latter). Thanks for making this :) However, I'm wondering if there are some more detailed instructions on how to install and run this locally? The URL to the github pages deployment also seems to be broken

June 13, 2025
Zack Batist
zackbatist@archaeo.social

@tillgrallert @cmboulanger Watching this presentation now and all my frustrations are manifested here. Thank you so much for sharing this!

June 13, 2025
Zack Batist
zackbatist@archaeo.social

@kiru I believe it!

June 13, 2025
Zack Batist
zackbatist@archaeo.social

@tillgrallert @cmboulanger This is great! I also started using grobid, seems like the best tool for the job. And I could see it being a standard part of my toolbox for many other things going forward

June 13, 2025
Zack Batist
zackbatist@archaeo.social

Now attempting to circumvent the whole mess using machine learning to extract references from PDFs

June 13, 2025
Zack Batist
zackbatist@archaeo.social

Metadata is only useful if it exists

June 13, 2025
Zack Batist
zackbatist@archaeo.social

Open scholarly metadata is actually such a huge mess, especially for monographs, edited volumes, grey lit, i.e. anything that isn't an english STEM journal article.

Which actually explains so much about why the "metascience" scene is how it is....

#metascience #metaresearch #bibliometrics

June 13, 2025
Zack Batist
zackbatist@archaeo.social

Having to extract lists of references from monographs and chapters and edited volumes, in norwegian 😖

June 12, 2025
Zack Batist
zackbatist@archaeo.social

@adr I mean, it's probably not *the* explanation but maybe one factor

June 11, 2025