Electric Archaeology

The header image is the result of Roboflow’s automatic image segmentation & labeller tool, powered by Meta’s Segment Anything Model 3.

Over at the project website I’ve posted a little update from some initial explorations of Flickr and Instagram data related to Everest; just posting here as an fyi if that sort of thing is of interest.

What follows is the script I laid out for myself for my DH Benelux 2026 conference keynote address.

I stepped in to help out at the last minute at a workshop on digital reconstruction in archaeology, to make the opening remarks.

If I had been offered project management training when I was doing my PhD, I probably would’ve been one of *those guys* who huffed and postured and been a general jerk about why I was being made to do it.

Recently, I’ve had a number of students wrestling with the challenges of scoping a field, pulling together a literature review, and trying to determine how different pieces might be in conversation with each other.

tl;dr: I build little wonky things to help with my own teaching and research.

I make crap when I’m overwhelmed by other things.

“People think that stories are shaped by people.

On January 19th, the National Trust for Canada (a heritage charity) raised the alarm about the imminent closure of the Canadian Register of Historic Places website and database.