From 19 to 20 May 2025, Darmstadt University of Technology

The project Digital Competences in the Archaeological Disciplines (DiKopA), which is based at the Classical Archaeology Department of TU Darmstadt, is organising a workshop from 19 to 20 May 2025 with lectures on digitisation, digital methods in teaching and research data management in archaeology.

The project is funded by the Foundation for Innovation in University Teaching and is being organised in cooperation with NFDI4Objects.

Logo DiKopA

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Meeting-ID: 633 4705 1019 Kenncode: 894157

Programme

Monday19.05.2025

Digitisation (Moderartion Georg Pantelidis)

11:00 am Greetings

11:15 am Keynote: Janoscha Kreppner Digital excavation documentation from the first spade to publication: realities and visions

12:00 pm Annarita Doronzio, Yong-Mi Rauch, Carolin Augustin From photographic cardboard to digital collection - digitisation of archaeological image material at Humboldt University as a cooperation between the Winckelmann Institute and the University Library

12:30 pm Lunch Break

2:00 pm Oliver Bruderer ‘Do I finally have to stop being able to draw?’ - Digital find documentation and the engagement with the object.

2:30 pm Stefan Krmnicek, Simon Holzner CoinFindsViewer. A contribution to digital numismatics

3:00 pm Clemens Brünenberg More than just SfM. The communication of digital building research today and in the future.

Open Discussion

4:00 pm Marion Bolder-Boos, Max Landowski Presentation of survey results

4:30 pm Podiumsdiskussion Chair: Katja Lembke, Daniel Blume, Marion Bolder-Boos, Maria Effinger, Irmela Herzog, Sascha Piffko und Kathrin Zimmer

5:30 pm End of first workshop-day

Tuesday 20.05.2025

Lectures and seminars (Moderartion Marion Bolder-Boos)

9:30 am Keynote: Kai-Christian Bruhn ‘Many can’t know what they can’t do”: Systematisation of skills in digital archaeology

10:15 am Ulrike Wolf Archaeology studies 2.x Future-oriented teaching in the field of tension between humanities and digitality using the example of a practical exercise

10:45 am Coffee break

11:15 am Sebastian Hageneuer, Kevin Körner Games, excavations, group work: field reports from the DiKopA archaeogaming hackathons

11:45 am Moritz A. Fischer, Moritz Kettler Student self-organisation in the digital space: examples of DASV e.V. projects: Workshop series and excavation calendar

Reproducable Research (Moderartion Sebastian Hageneuer)

1:30 pm Dirk Seidensticker When is enough really enough? Thoughts on reproducibility and re-use in archaeological research

2:00 pm Maria Shinoto Data in version control: structure, data manipulation, versions, metadata in central and public repos

2:30 pm Sophie C. Schmidt Keeping an overview: Organisation of data, analysis code and text in packages

3:00 pm Christoph Rinne Documentation and reutilisation of data: R and SQLite a strong team

3:30 pm End of second workshop-day