Open archaeology: a survey of collaborative software engineering in archaeological research

Zack Batist, University of Toronto
Joe Roe, University of Bern

This research compendium contains the data and code for our analysis of the state of the art in archaeological software engineering, using the list compiled at open-archaeo.

Preliminary results were presented at the CAA2021 Virtual Conference hosted by the Cyprus Institute of Technology, in S17, Tools for the Revolution: developing packages for scientific programming in archaeology?, a session organised by the special interest group for scientific scripting languages.

Usage

This compendium is an R package. The main analysis is described in analysis/paper.html, which is generated from analysis/paper.Rmd.

To reproduce the analysis yourself:

1. Download or clone the latest version of this repository
2. Build and install the package with devtools::build() (or Ctrl+Shift+B in RStudio)
3. Run the code chunks in analysis/paper.Rmd

You will need to set up a personal access token (PAT) to access the GitHub API:

usethis::create_github_token()

Citation

Please cite the preliminary results presented at CAA as:

• Batist, Zack and Joe Roe. 2021. Open archaeology: a survey of collaborative software engineering in archaeological research. Presented at Computer Applications & Quantitative Methods in Archaeology, Limassol (Virtual), 14–18 June 2021.