[ ] Bulletin de la Société Préhistorique Française - Actualités (scientific news)
[ ] INORA newsletter (NOT SURE IT STILL PUBLISH)
Users/collaborators should be specialists on any consensual group of decorations (Paleolithic rock-art, Iron Age stelae, etc.). We will:
a. inform them b. propose a master class c. propose different training(s) d. propose a congress session/round-table e. work to get a publication
contact mail and schedule a master class
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R package iconr - An open source computer-based method to study ancient iconography
mail body:
Dear Colleague,
We have the pleasure to introduce you the first version of the R package iconr.
The iconr package is dedicated to Prehistoric iconography modeling and analysis. Grounded on graph theory and spatial analysis, it aims to offer concepts and functions for a greater normalization of quantitative analysis, to facilitate cross-cultural comparisons. The main principle of the package is to consider any iconographic composition (here, 'decoration') as a geometric graph of graphical units. Geometric graphs -- also known as planar graphs or spatialized graphs -- allow to model the neighborhood of these graphical units which are the fundamental relationships of visual semiotics.
same edges identification
The first version of the package has been recently uploaded to the CRAN. A brief description of the package has been published on the Journal of Open Statistical Software (attached here), and online documentation is already available:
The next iconr release will integrate shape analysis of graphical units, tree-like structures for graphical units thesaurus (multi-linguism & shared vocabularies), use of directed acyclic graphs (DAG) to model the graphical units' superimpositions (ie, Harris matrix).
To promote the package utilization, we have schedule a first presentation on ZOOM (duration: ca. 45 minutes), the xx/xx/xx at 16:00 UTC. During the presentation, We will explain how it works and what are the expected outcomes (40 minutes) and respond to the audience questions (5 minutes). We will be very happy to meet you at this moment. If you are interested to participate, please conserve the following information
Topic: iconr R package - masterclass
Time: xxx
Join Zoom Meeting
https://xxx
Meeting ID: xxx
Passcode: xxx
If you cannot be present, but you are interested by the package or the presentation, thank you for letting us know. The presentation will be recorded and available on a video platform.
Best regards,
Thomas Huet, LabEx ARCHIMEDE ANR-11-LABX-0032-01 Jose M Pozo, Independant researcher Craig Alexander, Independant researcher
Online masterclass to present the iconr package and schedule training(s) (open dates with Doodle)
Geometric graph heuristic
Graph analysis indexes (degrees, same edges, etc.)
Case studies
Tutorial on R and RStudio install and basic functions
Datasets presentations/Training to use the iconr package:
Read, plot and compare graph decorations
Further analysis
schedule congress session/round-table (open dates with Doodle)
open a GitHub forum for FAQs and scientific exchanges
After the training, people are supposed to have used iconr on their favorite dataset (i.e. a selection of decorations). We will propose them to present their results in an oral communication in the frame of a round-table. Depending on the size of the decoration they have proceed, each used could choose between:
The aim of the round-table is to find the appropriate way to compare heterogeneous decorative contents (by periods, families, themes, techniques, etc.)
families x themes
see: families examples
Identify who will be our next collaborators
[ ] Palaeolithic cave rock-art:
[ ] Palaeolithic portable art: ...
[ ] Azilian painted peebles: ...
[ ] Near East PPNB painting: ...
[ ] Early Neolithic anthromorph potteries:
[ ] Sahara rock-art
[ ] Levantine/Macro-Schematic rock-art:
[ ] Chalcolithic stelae (Rouergue, Provence, Languedoc):
[ ] Schematic rock-art:
[ ] Cups-and-rings:
PENA TU
, etc.): ...[ ] Scandinavian rock-art:
[ ] Mycenian potteries with figurative decorations: ...
[ ] Warrior Stelae:
[ ] Mailhac potteries with figurative decorations:
[ ] First Iron Age potteries with figurative decorations (Sopron, Darslup, etc.)
[ ] Second Iron Age "bas aragon" stelae (STELE BAS ARAGON
, etc.): ///
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