A quick word on what this is, since "journal" can mean a few things. This is not an academic journal, peer reviewed and final. It is not quite a personal diary either. Think of it as a set of field notes, but of my own making: honest write-ups of how this project actually comes together, written while it is happening rather than tidied up years later. Some posts walk through a workflow or a tool I am learning. Some work through a question about Roman houses. All of them are written in real time, with the false starts left in, because the process is part of the story.
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On acting your way to readiness
I used to think I needed everything to be perfect before I could start, so I made lists, I researched, I read, and I called it preparation. This is the honest version of how I learned that readiness does not...
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Confessions of a first-time GIS user: part one
This is my first time ever properly using GIS software. There, I said it. What follows is the honest version of how a textual, archival, deeply non-spatial researcher got friendly with QGIS, starting not with the software at all but...