[Patina] Re: questions about the field trial [summary]

[Enrico Costanza]

Hello.

So I will try to summarize, please tell me if I am missing or
misunderstanding something.

The most likely target population is master students in
osteo-archaeology, because of the numbers.

PhD students may also be somehow involved, but their work is quite
specific, and unlikely to involve shared finds.

For practical reasons, at this stage it's easier for us to interview PhD
students. We do not need to interview them all in one group, we may talk
with one or few of them at the time (depending on their availability and
their area of work?). Tom and Angeliki are arranging that.

I think it would be useful for the interviews to address the following
(not necessarily in this order):

    * their experience on the master final projects (if they are
      alumni), and in particular:
          o use of the labs
          o use of notes
          o do they have an initial phase where they collect a lot of
            data that they analyse later? or is it an ongoing collect
            and analyse cycle?
          o how do they choose which finds to work on?
          o how many finds do master students normally work on during
            their project? how many are references?
          o topic assignment, and shared resources (i.e. how many people
            work on similar topics? do they interact? in what way?)
    * their use of the labs, finds and notes, as PhD students (just to
      confirm that they would not be good candidates for part 1 of the
      study), in particular:
          o what do they do in the labs?
          o how many finds to they work on? how do they choose them?
    * the (possible) relation between their work and the work of the
      master students (e.g. do they work on similar or sub-topics?),
      this will inform us about the opportunity to involve them in part
      2 of the study

(again, please feel free to add or edit this list!)

I understand that we have digital archives on ceramics (still need to
discuss with Leif about that) -- is there anything on bones?

Once we get more clear ideas about the questions above, we should be
able to define how we would ideally like to involve students in the
study. Then, the next step should be to look into what is realistic and
practical issues related to that, by talking to academics, through Graeme.

Thanks,
Enrico

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Dr Enrico Costanza
Lecturer, Intelligence, Agents, Multimedia Group
School of Electronics and Computer Science
University of Southampton, UK, SO17 1BJ

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