About THATCampCAA-NA

About THATCamp CAA-NA

THATCamp CAA-NA is co-sponsored by the Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology (CAA) conference North American chapter and the University of Virginia Library Year of Metadata and Fiske Kimball Fine Arts Library.  The focus of this meeting is to facilitate communication and collaboration between archaeologists, technologists, students, scholars, librarians, museum specialists, and other interested individuals within the field of computational archaeology (also referred to as “digital archaeology”), from beginners to experts.  The eight themes which can generally be applied to THATCamp CAA-NA (borrowed from the CAA 2012 meeting held in Southampton, UK) are as follows:

1. Simulating the Past
2. Spatial Analysis
3. Data Modelling & Sharing
4. Data Analysis, Management, Integration & Visualisation
5. Geospatial Technologies
6. Field & Lab Recording
7. Theoretical Approaches & Context of Archaeological Computing
8. Human Computer Interaction, Multimedia, Museums

These themes, of course are general.  This is your unconference, so feel free to submit session proposals on anything that is at least tangentially related to archaeology and computers!

Date

THATCamp CAA-NA will be held Friday, August 10 from roughly 9-5.

Venue

The event will be held in the auditorium of the Harrison-Small Special Collections Library on grounds at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville.  It is quite a nice facility.  The room is large, with movable tables and chairs that will allow individual groups to assemble to talk within a larger, shared space.  Other rooms within the building may be available, and there are two outdoor patios adjacent to the library which may be used to gather, provided the weather is tolerable.