IBASA: Peru project initial discussion ticket with to do items

lbestock commented 2 months ago

Alyssa Bolster asks to use Kiosk for the exploratory season of her dissertation work in summer 2024, hoping to have a more complete setup with some interesting customization by us by the time she gets to her actual excavations (fall 2025). She and @lbestock met on Friday 26 IV 24 to discuss. There are several interesting elements of the project for us, including that some of Kiosk's capabilities are totally necessary - she digs in caves.

Her eventual excavations will need some work thinking about bio archaeology and she does have excel files of how she records that will help. She's not dealing with individual articulated burials for the most part, mostly contexts of tons of comingled bones. But sometimes some articulated parts within that, and she is often digging in the dark pretty quickly and needs to be able to bring the context data and the eventual lab reading of the bones together (something she says is itself quite rare in bioarch). She'll have interesting queries, for instance she already knows she wants to get relative percentages of trephinned skulls in a cave vs in the surface layers outside it.

This summer (late June leaving) she will be visiting a number of sites to decide where she will apply for a permit. She has a Peruvian codirector who will do ceramics. Currently she wants to be able to name sites and use site notes so that all her observations at this stage are present and whichever site she ends up working at will be there and ready to go. She only expects to use one iPad this summer, but we discussed going out with a proper VM setup to insure against data loss and get used to part of the system.

[x] discuss and decide what it makes sense for her to go out with
[x] send Alyssa a list of equipment to buy, after which
[x] Alyssa sends us an acronym (needs some thinking!)
[x] we request a server space
[ ] ask Alyssa about her ceramicist and her workflow