February 5, 2020 brainstorm

Image of whiteboard taken at the end of brainstorming session, held with Costis on February 5, 2020.

mindset
- digital
- analytical
- integration
- obsessive / meticulous
- think as patterns
  - "data as data"
  - "grammar", structured info
natural language
- expertise in generalized patterns
- knowledge of knowledge
- stepping back, to see the big picture
digitalization of observations
- transformation into computable data structures
- with purposes of:
  - storage
  - transmission
  - processing
  - analysis
  - visualization
  - archive / keep for posterity
  - etc
- supportive roles / structure maintainers
- are often control freaks

Archaeological toolbox
Common terms, notions and concepts
Common 'weighting' of ideas, knowledge of what 'counts' or should be taken seriously
ability to consider multiple hypothetical pathways, given different sets of assumptions or approaches
- ability to shift between these tracks, group between sets

creative
- decisive
- based on experience implementing
- intuitive
supportive / enablers
- sets up environment to facilitate implementation
- understand value of work in a superficial way
- foster a sense of will
routinized / automation
- implementers
- respond to / [unclear] creative direction
- those who integrate their experiences with prior knowledge/experiences (i.e. build/gro their skillset/potential) will become intermediaries rather than mere novices

potential effectiveness of tasks dependent on understandings of:
- the available materials
- the possibolities and limitations that the materials afford (knowledge for)
- the methods that may be implemented to express/attain those possibilities given the materials (knowledge that <--> knowledge how)
- by [creative] agents in decision-making roles)
will to adopt, recognition of value
comparison of tools, cost/benefit analysis
scoping, defining boundaries, specifically regarding possibilities and potential
projection, speculation about potential outcomes
recognition of people's work, assemblage of symbols or stereotypes associated with roles or activities
recognizing domains under which work can be assigned, based on recognition of skillsets and designated roles

what are the factors that contribute to the tensions between information systems people and <archaeologists> in terms of how to maintain data effectively?
how does the distribution of labour relate to the implementation of information systems?
how are epistemic values <inscribed> into <archaeological> practices, especially those that relate to the pragmatic aspects of knowledge curation?

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