Open Context is participating in a 4-year cyberinfrastructure initiative that has received funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF). NSF has awarded the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory and partner institutions $4 million to develop an innovative cyberinfrastructure that will integrate scientific samples into a digital data ecosystem: iSamples, the “Internet of Samples.” Lamont geoinformatics specialist Kerstin […]
AAI/Open Context invites applications for two postdoctoral positions in data literacy
(Cross-posted from The Alexandria Archive Institute) Thanks to support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities, we are now accepting applications for two new full-time postdoctoral positions to help develop our new Data Literacy Program. Please visit the job postings here and share this announcement widely.
AAI receives Mellon Foundation grant for data literacy program in archaeology
San Francisco, CA, 17 June 2020 The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has awarded The Alexandria Archive Institute (AAI) a grant to support the launch of a program in data literacy and to develop institutional ties to sustain open data publishing and curation services in archaeology. The Mellon Foundation’s grant of $610,000 will be matched by […]
Addressing “micro-challenges” of archaeological data creation and reuse
Cross-posted at The Cambridge Core blog and reproduced here with minor changes. If we want to use archaeological data to address “grand challenge”-type questions, we need to first confront a myriad of “micro challenges” in reusing data. Digital technologies and services have become a normal part of everyday archaeological practice. But how well does our […]
How do we Sustain Open Data?
In 2018, the National Endowment for the Humanities awarded the AAI / Open Context an Infrastructure and Capacity-Building Challenge Grant. Much of our focus during the first year of the multi-year grant has been on the question of sustainability for a resource like Open Context. What does sustainability look like for an open access data […]
DINAA Updates in 2019
DINAA currently documents 1,045,319 sites from 41 states, gathered either directly from agencies, through journal text-mining, or through links with museum collections and other online resources and repositories. DINAA holds annual workshops for researchers, museum and library representatives, tribal heritage experts, and data managers to help guide current and future work. The 2019 DINAA Workshop […]
Feature Development in 2018: Zooming and 3D Models
The development of features in Open Context frequently occurs in response to the needs of data authors. Since Open Context’s inception, we have emphasize that there is no “one size fits all” solution to sharing data, and so we have been open to a more organic development of features in the dynamic landscape of data […]
New Publications Address Data Reuse in Archaeology
The latest issue of Advances in Archaeological Practice includes a special section with five papers on the theme of “Digital Data Reuse in Archaeology.” These are some of the first studies to move beyond data preservation to explore what people are actually doing with shared archaeological data. Here is a list of the papers, with […]
Networking Government Data to Navigate an Uncertain Future for the Past
A paper published today in the journal Antiquity highlights the value of protecting public records of scientific research. The paper, “Networking government data to navigate an uncertain future for the past”, discusses how to incorporate government records into broader civil society networks and ensure their long term preservation and widespread use, drawing on the example […]
Webinar on Using Linked Open Data to Address Climate Change
Please join us on Thursday afternoon February 8th, from 2:00-3:30pm EST, for a live webinar program that will examine how linked open data can be used to address the impacts of climate change on heritage resources. The program consists of a ca. 30-35 minute talk with slides followed by a Q&A period. It is part […]