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SEAD is recruiting! If you are interested in one year of project based work, and can read and write both English and Swedish, then please see the job advert on the university website. Deadline for applications in on the 21st of September.
SEAD has received more funding! The SEAD project now has secure funding until 2014 thanks to a second Swedish Research Council database infrastructure grant, and the continued co-financing provided by The Department of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies at Faculty of Arts, Umeå University.
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A public prototype of the QSEAD data exploration and retrieval system is online now! Contact Phil Buckland with any comments, questions, suggestions or requests. |
| Working hard! |
- See the database and tools pages for more information on what we are currently working on.
- A test version of the data-entry tools will be released in the autumn, and followed shortly thereafter by the clearing-house system.
- Phil & Toby are parsing the latest version of the BugsCEP insect database to make it available through the SEAD web system.
- Jan-Erik Wallin is using the Tilia software to convert MAL's pollen data archive for storage in SEAD and mirroring in Neotoma. Tilia has been made available to the SEAD team through development cooperation with the Neotoma project.
- Discussions are underway on the formation of an international reference group for SEAD.
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| 18-21 May |
Swedish archaeology subject conference in Umeå, Sweden. |
| April 2011 |
Prof. Maurizio Forte from the University of California, Merced, held a seminar and workshop in HUMlab. See HUMlab's website for details.
Cyberarchaeology: A Post-Virtual Perspective HUMlab April 27th, kl. 13:15
Avaratizing the Past: Why, How, and What? HUMlab April 28th, kl. 13:00-15:00 |
| April 2011 |
HUMlab postdoc seminars at the Department of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies, Umeå University, Sweden. |
| Early 2011 |
Various database collaboration meetings in Umeå, Stockholm (Sweden) and York (ADS) (UK). |
| Sept 2010 |
Workshop: Launching Phase 2 of the Neotoma Paleocommunity Database”, Madison, Wisconsin, USA. |
| May 2010 |
Research visit to Penn State University, State College, USA:
Phil & Erik will visit research partners at Penn State to discuss the development of online tools and palaeoenvironmental/archaeological teaching systems.
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| Oct
2009 |
Initiation workshop for a network for the development of analysis and visualisation tools for database orientated environmental archaeological, palaeoenvironmental and palaeoclimatic studies. See Conference & workshop participation below.
HUMlab, Umeå, Sweden.
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| May
2009 |
The SEAD Project was presented by Patrik Svensson as a part of the showcase presentation during the opening of HUMlab 2 expansion, in Umeå, illustrating a potential use of the screenscape environment and large dimension touch screen. See the SEAD tools page for more details.
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April
2009 |
Philip Buckland took part in the evaluation of The Swedish Research Council's Database Infrastructure (DISC) funding stream, as an invited participant in discussions with the review panel. |
| Conference & workshop participation (more details and some files available here) |
| 17-19 August |
NORDIC ARCHAEOBOTANICAL GROUP meeting, Vadstena, Sweden (contact Karin Viklund for more information) |
| 20-27 July |
INQUA conference, Bern, Switzerland. At least two presentations using SEAD and/or BugsCEP in their underlying analyses (we also noticed a couple of posters using data from Bugs). |
| 30 March – 3 April 2011 |
SAA 76th Annual Meeting, Sacramento, California, USA.
Archaeological Cartographies Symposium.
Philip Buckland: Mapping, querying and presenting multiproxy environmental archaeology |
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| February 19-20 2011 |
JORVIK Viking Festival: Modern Answers to Ancient Mysteries & DIG Event, York Archaeological Trust, York, UK.
Philip Buckland:
Presentation: What was bugging the Vikings: Beetles, parasites and environments in the Viking Age
Demonstration: Insects under the microscope
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September
2010 |
Neotoma consortium meeting.
Department of Geography and Center for Climatic Research, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA.
Planning the next stage in the development of the international palaeoecological database system Neotoma. |
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October 26-28
2009 |
FQAS 2009 - Flexible Query Answering Systems, Eighth International Conference, Roskilde, Denmark
Fredrik Palm: Abstracting query building for multi-entity faceted browsing |
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October 5-11
2009 |
Initiation workshop for a network for the development of analysis and visualisation tools for database orientated environmental archaeological, palaeoenvironmental and palaeoclimatic studies.
Environmental Archaeology Lab and HUMlab, Umeå, Sweden |
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Jan 31 - Feb 1
2009 |
Neotoma database collaboration workshop.
Washington DC, USA.
For more information on the Neotoma project, see http://www.neotomadb.org/. |
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January 5-7
2009 |
QRA Annual Discussion Meeting: The human dimension in rapid environmental change
Research Laboratory for Archaeology.
University of Oxford, UK.
Session 5: High precision records of abrupt climatic change in the Holocene
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Buckland, P.I. et al. Integrating proxy archives for archaeology and palaeoenvironmental science: SEAD - The Strategic Environmental Archaeology Database
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November 20-22
2008 |
SAMIARC-conference, Sami History and Prehistory: Archaeological Perspectives from Late Neolithic to Present Time.
St Petersburg, Russia. |
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Viklund, K. et al. A new database for environmental archaeology - implications for Sami history and prehistory |
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October 8-10
2008 |
Human Dimensions in the Circumpolar Arctic: An Interdisciplinary Conference under the Auspices of the International Polar Year.
Umeå University, Sweden. |
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Buckland, P.I. et al. Integrating Human Dimensions of Palaeoenvironmental Science: SEAD - The Strategic Environmental Archeology Database
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August 15-17
2008 |
NAG - NORDIC ARCHAEOBOTANY GROUP
Lammi, Finland. |
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Viklund, K. et al. A new database for environmental archaeology - implications for archaeobotany |
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February 18-20
2007 |
Late Neogene Terrestrial Ecosystem Database Workshop
Pennsylvania State University, USA. |
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Buckland, P.I. et al. BugsCEP - The Coleopteran Ecology Package
Buckland, P.I. et al. SEAD - The Strategic Environmental Archeology Database |
March 10th
2011 |
GIS and Landscape-seminars, Rethinking Human Nature, Archaeology and Ancient History, Uppsala University, Sweden. |
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Philip Buckland: SEAD The Strategic Environmental Archaeology Database |
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October 14th
2009 |
Seminar at the Department of Wildlife, Fish, and Environmental Studies,
Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences,
Umeå, Sweden. |
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Phil Buckland: Palaeoenvironmental and climate reconstruction from fossil insect remains. |
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October 7th
2009 |
HUMlab seminar
Umeå University, Sweden. |
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Developing tools for mining, mapping and visualising scientific data
Stuart Dunn: The GeoParser Tool - the digitzation and historical georeferencing of text documents
Brian Bills: Integrating geospatial technologies and rich interactive web application development for information exploration and decision support tools
George Otto: Visualization for research and education.
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September 9th
2009 |
Seminar at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Umeå, Sweden. |
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Phil Buckland: E-science tools for improving our understanding of past human-nature interactions - The Strategic Environmental Archaeology Database. |
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November 26
2008
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HUMlab seminar
Umeå University, Sweden. |
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Buckland, P. I. et al. SEAD – The Strategic Environmental Archaeology Database.
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