ArchCamp Seven, Williamsburg

Attendees

 * Leif Isaksen
 * Jessica Ogden
 * Michael Charno
 * Bill Wilcox
 * Geoff Avern
 * Chris Renaud
 * Kelly Monteleone
 * Martin Hinz
 * Maximilian Schich
 * Matthias Lang
 * Stephen White
 * Sara Franck
 * Todd Brenningmeyer
 * Adam Rabinowitz
 * Hugh Corley
 * Cathy Campbell
 * Arianna Travighy
 * Philip Verhagen

Stuff that happened
None of Jess's painstaking notes got saved!! :-( Below is summary of Leif's sieve-like memory:

Mike Asked a Question
I've forgotten what it was now but we all got kind of excited by it (especially Max ;-) )

Intrasis
Hugh gave us the heads up on 'Anglifying' Intrasis at English Heritage

Heurist
Cathy and Stephen gave us the lowdown on some nifty temporal stuff and what seems to be a fully-fledged triple-like-server from Dahnunder.

Webmapping
Todd showed us that webmapping doesn't always have to be Open Layers (or ugly for that matter)

Cool sites
No lolcats this time, but the mighty GeoNames was demonstrated. GeoNames is a open access community-based server that maintains conceptual places across the world. Each place has information (including alternative toponyms, location, category and related resources) attached to it by RDF. More importantly, it gets a unique URI that can be resolved to an RDF/XML description. It also has a handy Web API that comes in a variety of linguistic flavours. Leif found it extremely useful when writing software that helps archaeologists map their site locations to canonical URIs. He secretly hope that the Heurist gang will do the same for temporal concepts :-)

Survivors
Just before we all piled off to the Green Leaf Tavern :-)