@aejolene I'm using https://bridge.joinmastodon.org/ but am getting lots of errors on some people. I wonder if the server is over taxed? But anyway, at least I was able to connect with about 2 dozen Twitter contacts. THANKS!
#OpenScience #OpenData #Library folks. This is #EndangeredData week, where we highlight the importance of public records in free and civil society. Here's a brilliant blog post by Sarah Bond: https://www.forbes.com/sites/drsarahbond/2017/04/19/saving-endangered-data-from-ancient-rome-to-trumps-america/
Go to your local #taxmarch and protest will you still can (and before radioactive fallout makes it unhealthy).
It's important.
If you are a denizen of the SF Bay Area, here's the info for the San Francisco march:
Roman era dirt looks like Halaf and Ubaid era dirt in the Mediterranean world.
Not a very deep or inspired thought, but you're welcome.
Hmm... source code seems to say yes, #Mastodon should support Open Graph tags, see: https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/blob/f0de621e76b5a5ba3f7e67bd88c0183aac22b985/db/migrate/20170119214911_create_preview_cards.rb
Bummer. I wish #Mastodon could use the Open Graph metadata that Twitter and Facebook uses. It would make shared links more lively in this platform.
Let's see if Masto can show pictures via links:
Here's the direct link to the pict:
https://merritt.cdlib.org/d/ark%3A%2F28722%2Fk2h99309c/0/producer%2Fartiraq.org%2Fstatic%2Fopencontext%2Fpoggio-civitate%2Fpreview%2F19840105.jpg
And here's the Web page for it: https://opencontext.org/media/FEDA00BF-FAFE-48F6-C6C8-28B5B671BA08
It's a terracotta modeled cat, an architectural decoration from an early Etruscan building.
While I'm still a novice at Jupyter Notebooks, I can see its value in integrating code with explanatory / narrative text.
I'm working on some blocks of #Python code for some basic #datavis on #archaeology data from @cpencontext
Seems like good news: http://boingboing.net/2017/04/09/evidence-based-policy.html
Ignore this and use @ekansa