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Leif Isaksen
Antiquist 5 ('Öt')

ArchCamp is a regular BarCamp (or 'unconference') held by the Antiquist Cultural Heritage and IT online community (www.antiquist.org). The purpose of ArchCamp is to provide an open and informalarena for brief 'nuts-and-bolts' demonstrations of ongoing, experimental or innovative work in order to elicit feedback and trade ideas. It takes a round-table format in which all participants are encouraged to interact on an equal footing.

Participants are asked to bring a topic (or topics) that they would be able to present publicly, and these are listed during the initial round of introductions. Thereafter, the agenda is set spontaneously dependent on which themes the delegates collectively wish to pursue. Generally speaking, presentations will last 5-10 minutes followed by a further 10-20 minutes of interactive demonstration of the relevant tools and technologies. There is also 'grapevine' time set aside for brief notices about new websites and services that may be useful to other delegates.

ArchCamp has been successfully held in conjunction with two previous CAA conferences (Southampton and Berlin 2007) and will also be held at CAA York 2008. The session lasts around 3 hours and is traditionally followed by beer, burgers and convivial conversation at a local eatery. For details of past ArchCamps, see: http://www.antiquist.org/wiki/index.php?title=Archcamp

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