Promoting best practice
Thanks to everyone who attended our conference last week — you really helped to make it a great success. Particular thanks go to our speakers on the day, Ellen O’Carroll, Isabella Mulhall, Gill Plunkett, Orla-Peach Power, Eileen Reilly and Lorna O’Donnell, and to all their collaborators. Meriel McClatchie introduced the conference, and Mick Monk responded…
We are busy organising our conference, Looking back, moving forward: 70 years of Environmental Archaeology in Ireland, which will be held at the fantastic lecture theatre in the National Botanic Gardens Dublin on Friday 19th February 2016. The conference will explore how environmental archaeology developed in Ireland, where we are now, and how we can move forward. We…
It’s almost the end of 2015, which means that our big conference is happening in a few weeks’ time! We recently issued a call for posters for our upcoming conference, Looking back, moving forward: 70 years of environmental archaeology in Ireland. The conference will take place on Friday 19th February 2016 in Dublin. The poster session…
Please visit our new conference website to find out more about our upcoming event, Looking back, moving forward: 70 years of environmental archaeology in Ireland. Registration is now open.
In August 2013 the Institute of Archaeologists of Ireland (IAI), in association with Dublin City Council, the Heritage Council and the Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, hosted the first Archaeofest in Merrion Square as part of the Heritage Council’s annual Heritage Week. The idea was to bring together archaeologists from many different walks of life for…
Date: Friday 19th February 2016Location: National Botanic Gardens, DublinOrganisers: Environmental Archaeology in Ireland (EAI)Workgroup Sponsors: National Monuments Service, Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht It is almost 70 years since the publication of Frank Mitchell’s seminal paper “Evidence of early agriculture” in the Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland. In this paper, Mitchell outlined…
This is a follow up blog post for Digital Data in Environmental Archaeology 1: Preservation. This is a short account of the reasons why I think that environmental archaeology data should be stored and disseminated as open data (i.e. data that is freely available in accessible formats, usually digital, under licences that allow it to be…
This is a short blog post about preserving digital data, from the perspective of an environmental archaeologist. There is a follow up post about open data in environmental archaeology. All of this comes from my personal experience of creating, sharing and trying to preserve digital data. This post was originally published on 30 September 2015. It was…
