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owledge has any such politician expressed a desire to do so after all the west lothian question was raised by a scottish mp the case is therefore black and white either a political constitution is agreed upon in which politicians from all four nations can decide on their own domestic affairs and collaboratively on supranational ones or a situation continues which is always unreasonable to one nation or another and continues to breed unnecessary resentments it is an extremely rare day that i find myself agreeing with gordon brown menzies campbell carwyn jones and john redwood nevertheless in my best of all possible worlds i can imagine a federal united kingdom ok ideally a federal united republic in which all four nations collaborate on an equitable footing this is hardly a radical solution a great many of the largest global countries are federal while it might be too much to follow the americans and australians in creating a new extra national capital there seems plenty of appetite across all four nations for a settlement which respects the autonomy of each state while preserving the union the obvious step would be to replace an equally broken house of lords which has moved from reinforcing a hereditary elite to one reinforcing the status quo through party political appointments with an elected senate representing the four nations some model ensuring that at least two nations were in support of a given motion would seem a minimum practical requirement unfortunately and as my motley list of co conspirators suggests i fear that this is not a solution the westminster political establishment has any interest in due to the entirely unpredictable impact it would have on their political ambitions cameron has made clear that an english parliament is not remotely near and indeed it has been obvious from the outset that all of the leaders of the big three parties are keen to reduce political change to the barest conceivable minimum that will persuade the barest conceivable majority of scots to vote no if that does turn out to be the result and the polls suggest that it will our best hope is that the daily record vow has already holed the uk political framework below the water line on balance i would prefer a federal uk over an independent scotland and an independent scotland over the uk s current unwritten unfair and unsustainable constitutional arrangement there are tantalising hints that the first is possible those hints will continue to give me hope for the uk and scotland s place in it if the vote is no but for all that there is nothing i have heard from our political leadership to suggest that they want anything but politics as usual i personally feel that we would be better together as a family of nations but not while england remains a constitutional anomaly until that situation is resolved my vicarious vote has to be a reluctant yes digital approaches to cartographic heritage march 12 2011 11 24 am posted in uncategorized leave a comment i ll be giving a paper on ptolemy at the ica annual workshop on digital approaches to cartographic heritage at the hague and it s been a great excuse to finally put some ideas old and new down on paper comments welcome the madaba map overlaid with divisions at 1 2 1 3 1 4 1 6th of a degree this creates gaps in the coverage which may cause increased assignment to the exact and half degrees 0 and 30 if assignment is based on labels overlapping the division of highest denominator the clustering will be exaggerated for longitude because of the left right orientation of writing this is precisely the effect we actually observe see below distribution of locations in germania to minutes of a degree black longitude white latitude mind the gap july 19 2010 3 39 pm posted in uncategorized comments 1 just a quick post to announce some good news google have just announced the first recipients of their digital humanities research awards and the google ancient places gap project is one of only 12 projects funded worldwide the project is in conjunction with elton barker at the open university and eric kansa at uc berkeley and we aim to make classical texts available in massive corpora such as google books easier to discover using spatial technologies the project has already started to pick up mentions in the guardian digital content blog and techradar it s very early days yet so i won t say too much more at this stage but needless to say if you are interested in the work please get in touch reading between the lines june 8 2010 12 37 pm posted in uncategorized leave a comment for a very long time indeed i ve meaning to post about a little hobby i have toying around with ptolemy s geography somehow or other i never quite managed to pin down enough time to marshall my thoughts together finally i took the plunge and threw in an abstract for the digiclas work in progress seminar and you can see and hear the results here and here i m planning to write a paper on it but until now my activity has essentially been driven by sheer enthusiasm for the subject i hope you find it as fascinating a topic as i have and naturally i d be delighted to receive feedback in any shape or form ptolemy s world map nicholas germanus 1482 boundaries and settlement clusters in ptolemy s world map reconstructed in a gis and overlaid with parallels of longest day not latitude the regions to the nw conform to these parallels which may reflect origins in the geographic texts of marinos of tyre if so the south easterly areas which do not conform to them may be later inclusions a week in williamsburg april 12 2009 9 09 pm posted in uncategorized comments 3 the computer applications in archaeology conference hopped across the pond again this year and was hosted in sunny williamsburg va i hadn t been to virginia before but was struck by its combination of charming woodland and swampy well swamps williamsburg is part of the historic triangle of jamestown williamsburg and yorktown which were the first colony first capital and last colony insofar as it was where we brits surrendered of virginia williamsburg itself is more or less a themepark complete with period dress actors and was heavily reconstructed by rockefeller jr from the thirties onwards it s pretty though jamestown on the other hand is just archaeological remains on a marshy island but has a couple of interesting museums that make a reasonable stab of portraying the conflicting goals and world views of both the original settlers and their powhatan hosts thanks for the postcard i hear you cry but what of the conference well i m happy to report that it was for me at least one of the most stimulating caas i can remember without intending to blow my own trumpet that was at least in part due the success of the semantic web 2nd generation applications session i co chaired by a stroke of bad luck my original partner in the venture tom elliott was unable to attend but keith may of the eh uni of glamorgan star project made an equally stalwart companion on the day we had a large number of submissions for the session and in the end were asked to move some into a separate one on data management the following day but this may in the end have been to our benefit with two opportunities for discussion this was something of a milestone at caa which has seen a number of presentations on semweb aproaches in the past but never this number or all brought together the end product was interesting not just for the sum of its parts but also in showing just how healthy the semweb community in archaeology is this seems to be for two reasons the first is that there is an increasing acceptance that these technologies are just a little too big for any one research group to manage in turn they ve increasingly started to focus on different aspects rather than complete systems in communities where there is no need to co operate with one another for example those working in network analysis it has seemed harder to get collaborative ventures going so this may be a promising indicator only time will tell whether it s true but there is certainly a lot of enthusiasm at present the second factor is that both bottom up and top down approaches slowly seem to be converging this is most apparent in the increased use of small sections of big ontologies like the cidoc crm as well as acceptance by the just give your own stuff uris community that stable independent resources that provide canonical uris for shared concepts are invaluable for linking data all the papers were interesting but some highlights for me included sebastian heath who s been one of the pioneers of making data available as uris saying that for him the great moment is when you get unexpected value i e when someone else uses your stuff in a way you had never even imagined to me that s that s the true spirit of scholarship ian johnson s team at university of sydney archaeological computing lab have been working on system called heurist that seems to be effectively triples based even more exciting to me was the theoretical work done by cathy campbell on describing time periods if they could create a geonames like service out of it i d want it in my stocking this christmas kate byrne reminding us that it is better to be correct than complete i m increasingly of the view that correctness is over rated too but it certainly is vital to recall that all semantic data is inherently incomplete as is all archaeological data the less of it that is inaccurate however the less fuzzy our aggregated view of the past will be robert kummer s point that users don t want a record they want to understand a historical topic if the semweb approach is going to work at all we still need to do a lot of work in this area although it wasn t actually in either of the sessions above my vote for best idea of the conference goes to julian richards suggestion that there should be an annual prize for best reuse of archaeological data currently the discipline still seems too often focussed on new results and this would be a great way to encourage both data contributors and and analysts to come back to the data mountain we continue to accumulate i guess it s not too vain to add that the importance of making it quick and easy as in one rainy afternoon for archaeologists to create linked data from their own datasets was the key take home message of my presentation whether any one wanted to take it home is for them to say d there was plenty more besides but we re hoping to publish as many of the papers collectively as possible so updates will follow please also note that we intend to keep the conversation going over at the graph of ancient world data gawd google group so come on over and join us other than the semweb sessions i was also very interested in developments over at digital antiquity and of course archcamp 7 rocked the house as well i also joined the caa steering committee so as student and low income rep so if you want any points raised drop me a line happy easter all interface march 15 2009 12 04 am posted in uncategorized comments 1 things have been trotting along at their usual merry pace down here in southampton but the big news is that we ve recently released the first call for papers for the forthcoming interface 2009 symposium the symposium which is bringing researchers from the technology and humanities disciplines together has been a long time in the coming it all started with a presentation that led on to a watercooler chat which turned into an open meeting followed by a pub conversation leading to a cautious mooting of ideas and ultimately a funding bid six months later courtesy of roberts funding we got some seed money to get the thing off the ground frankly it s been tugging us like a fighter kite ever since we ve been very fortunate in getting some seriously heavyweight speakers but more importantly we re hoping to see this as a two way street there is important work going on in both fields which can illuminate and inspire the other for me the crux of the whole event will be the sessions which bring people and ideas together speed dating posters and lightning talks i m a big enthusiast of barcamps and in particular antiquist s very own archcamp but here we re trying something slightly more formalised and hi octane with luck there ll be enough happening in two days to keep people reflecting on it for months afterwards please consider submitting something and if you re in a humanities or computing department pass the word on first call for papers interface 2009 1st national symposium for humanities and technology 9 10 july university of southampton uk http www interface09 org uk interface is a new type of annual event part conference part workshop part networking opportunity it will bring together postdocs early career academics and postgraduate researchers from the fields of information technology and the humanities in order to foster cutting edge collaboration as well as having a focus on digital humanities it will also be an important forum for humanities contributions to computer science the event will furthermore provide a permanent web presence for communication between delegates both during and following the conference delegate numbers are limited to 80 half representing each sector and all participants will be expected to present a poster or a lightning talk a two minute presentation as a stimulus for discussion and networking sessions delegates can also expect to receive illuminating keynote talks from world leading experts presentations on successful interdisciplinary projects insider s guides and workshops the registration fee for the two day event is 30 for a full overview of the event please visit the website paper submissions if you are interested in attending please submit an original paper of 1500 words or less describing an idea or concept you wish to present please indicate whether you would prefer to produce a poster or perform a 2 minute lightning talk papers must be produced as a pdf or in microsoft word doc format and submitted through our easychair page register for an easy chair account http www easychair org conferences account_apply cgi log in https www easychair org conf interface09 click new submission at the top of the page and fill in the form make sure you select your preference of lightning talk or poster select whether you are representing humanities or technology attach and upload your paper if you encounter any problems please e mail submissions interface09 org uk a number of travel bursaries may be available to successful applicants if you would like to be considered for one please email bursaries interface09 org uk and provide grounds for consideration papers should focus on potential and realistic areas for collaboration between the technology and humanities sectors either by addressing particular problems new developments or both prior work may be presented where relevant but the nature of the paper must be forward looking as s...