The final programme of the summer school. Each session will comprise seminars and hands-on practical tutorials led by the leading figures in digital archaeology. Please note that short ‘breather breaks’ will be incorporated throughout on a dynamic basis. The organisers reserve the right to last-minute changes in the programme.
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Monday morning
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9:00 | Introduction | Registration, Introduction, Plan of Action for the next 5 days, Software installation |
| 09:30 | Team exercise: introduce your research | A quick introduction exercise | |
| 10:00 | Seminar: Research Process | The fundamentals of good science: research questions, data collection, data analysis, data management, theory building, hypothesis testing, Open Science | |
| 10:30 | Python tutorial: data manipulation | Tutorial on using Python for data manipulation | |
| 12:00 | Python tutorial: data analysis and visualisation | Tutorial on using Python for data analysis and visualisation | |
| 13:00 | Lunch | ||
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Monday afternoon
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14:00 | Talk: Network data | What is network data and how to represent it |
| 14:30 | Talk: Network Science | Network Science: what is it and how to start | |
| 15:00 | Tutorial: Network Science | Hands on tutorial in Gephi and Python | |
| 17:00 | Networking event | Post-work networking event. Details TBC | |
| TUESDAY | |||
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Tuesday morning
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9:00 | Seminar: Data management and Semantic Technologies | Data management, FAIR principles, open science: open access, open data, open methods |
| 10:00 | Tutorial: semantic modelling | Practical introduction to semantic modelling with a hands-on tutorial on SPARQL Endpoint and the romanopendata.eu | |
| 12:00 | Lunch | ||
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Tuesday afternoon
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14:00 | Individual exercise: analyse the data |
Use the skills gained so far to to analyse and visualise a dataset. Solve 10 tasks using dummy data or your own. Discuss your results and challenges in small groups.
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| 16:00 | Team exercise: discuss the results | ||
| 17:00 | End of the day | Optional drop-in clinic in a pub for those who want to discuss their research project or anything learnt during the course | |
| WEDNESDAY | |||
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Wednesday Morning
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09:00 | Talk: What’s modelling? What is it for? | Why do we model? The difference between a model and a simulation. What is simulation used for? Potential and limitations of the method. |
| 10:00 | Tutorial: First Steps in NetLogo | Hands-on tutorial in NetLogo basics | |
| 12:00 | Short talk (ODD) and Team exercise: model design | Create a Project design for a model to explain your data, or any of the datasets we already worked on. Use the ODD Template. | |
| 13:00 | Lunch | ||
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Wednesday afternoon
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14:00 | Tutorial: NetLogo. Intermediate level | Hands-on tutorial in NetLogo intermediate features |
| 16:00 | Team exercise: expand a model | Build your own archaeological simulation by extending the model used in 3.2 | |
| 17:00 | End of the day | Optional drop-in clinic in a pub for those who want to discuss their research project or anything learnt during the course | |
| THURSDAY | |||
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Thursday Morning
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09:00 | Talk: Space | How do we treat space in agent-based modells, what is spatial, what is not |
| 09:30 | Tutorial: GIS | Tutorial in the GIS component of Netlogo | |
| 10:00 | Talk: Agents | What is an agent, what do they represent, how do you choose the right scale | |
| 10:30 | Tutorial: Networks | Tutorial in the Networks extension | |
| 13:00 | Lunch | ||
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Thursday Afternoon
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14:00 | Finish off | Finish off any of the earlier tutorials |
| 15:00 | Talk: Behaviour | How to write pseudo code; how to construct model ontology. | |
| 15:30 | Tutorial: Modelling behaviour | Tutorial on Algorithmics. How one behaviour can be modelled in many ways (using the example of random walk) | |
| 16:30 | Seminar: Ten steps of model building | A step by step guide through all the phases of building a model. | |
| 17:00 | End of the day | Optional drop-in clinic in a pub for those who want to discuss their research project or anything learnt during the course | |
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Friday Morning
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09:00 | Tutorial/Seminar: NetLogo round-up | A revision of Netlogo concepts: variables, loops, lists, agentsets and more. |
| 11:30 | Tutorial: NetLogo Profiler and Behaviour Space | Tutorial on optimising the code and running experiments in batch mode. | |
| 13:00 | Lunch | ||
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Friday Afternoon
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12:00 | Tutorial: running a simulation | How to? Parametrisation, experiment design, analysis of results. |
| 14:00 | Individual exercise: how to analyse simulation results | Part tutorial, part individual exercise – how to analyse simulation results | |
| 16:30 | Seminar: Data and software sustainability | What to do with the data and the models next, repos, libraries, documentation, licences |
The organisers will assume the cost of lunch for each of the attendees. As such, said attendees agree to renounce the corresponding per diem expenses.
Summer School in Digital Archaeology 