Colophon
What this is, how it is filed, and where the engravings come from.
his is a personal site. Nothing here is client work, nothing is for sale, and none of it falls within the field I work in professionally. It collects research across eight unrelated subjects in one place so that each is documented to the same standard.
How it is filed
By field, not by output type. A portfolio sorts things into papers, tools and demos, which works when everything is the same kind of thing. Here the subjects genuinely differ, so the subject is the top level and each field holds whatever it happens to contain: a reading corpus, a data pipeline, a written argument, or one finished object.
Every project carries a status and a short account of what actually exists on disk. The second is the more important of the two. A directory described by its README will tend to be reported as its intent rather than its state, which is how a pipeline gets recorded as a finding. Where the state is unverified, the note says so.
What is withheld
Candidate coordinates for unrecorded archaeological sites are not published here and will not be. A ranked list of unprotected sites is a useful document for exactly one group of people other than archaeologists, and my confidence in a nineteenth-century source is not a good enough reason to hand it to them. The reasoning and the method are published. The locations are not.
The notes behind it
Underneath this sits a research wiki with a deliberately strict discipline: source notes record what a text actually says, with claims extracted and given identifiers; topic notes interpret, and every sentence in them must cite a source note; argument notes are my own positions, and topic notes are never allowed to cite them. Citability only ever flows one direction. The overhead is greater than a personal notebook requires. It is also the only reason a topic note remains legible years later, with claims made by the source still separable from my own.
The Plates
All engravings are public-domain scans, tinted to a single lapis ink drawn from the same copperplate blue the rest of the site is set in. They were assembled for an earlier project of mine and reused here.
