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PPA Buckets

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Categories for public and professional activities
Author

Sharon Howard

Published

25 February 2024

Modified

29 December 2024

Wikibase queries

The buckets are not part of the wikibase, but as the number is quite small they can be hand-coded into a query. The query below is a starting point for this.

  • PPA buckets

Notes

The purpose of the buckets is to group PPAs together in reasonably coherent (and not too unbalanced) categories to facilitate various kinds of analysis from comparative overviews to digging into the detail of specific categories.

bucket ppa n
charitable benefactor to 4
charitable founded 13
charitable fundraiser for 5
collections curated (item) 58
collections donor to 193
collections loaner to 60
collections recovered (free text) 1
collections seller to 8
collections was collector of 96
collections was donor of 3
education educated at 411
elections election to Council of CAS proposed by 1
elections election to RAI proposed by 336
elections election to SAL proposed by 111
elections proposed election to RHS signed by (personal) 26
events attended 21
events exhibited at 223
events organiser of 31
events performed at 18
events spoke at 1003
events was delegate at (free text) 3
events was delegate at (item) 46
fieldwork Member of Committee for Archaeological Fieldwork 1
fieldwork President of Committee for Archaeological Fieldwork 1
fieldwork director of archaeological fieldwork 121
fieldwork director of expedition 7
fieldwork member of excavation during archaeological fieldwork 199
fieldwork member of expedition 2
fieldwork travelled overseas for 1
positions acknowledged for role 107
positions applicant to 22
positions employed as 132
positions held position 704
positions held position (free text) 21
positions served on 318
publishing contributed to 117
publishing illustrated in 5
publishing work(s) published in 826
societies corresponded with 281
societies was fellow of 220
societies was member of 1144

Not all PPAs are in buckets! Some are more useful for network-y analysis.

  • publishing could need reviewing once we have more bibliographical data
  • corresponded with should only be included in buckets if it’s to an institution rather than an individual, but I haven’t yet amended queries to handle that. (Correspondence with individuals is a small minority of results at present.)
  • charitable/organisational is a very small bucket that will probably be mostly ignored for big picture stuff
  • collections and fieldwork are buckets i haven’t looked at at all yet

Overview

Labels for activities within buckets have been omitted as a) there isn’t space for them and b) this just gives an overview of distributions.

By bucket