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# Heritage Bytes

News and Updates about Open Context

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- [News](http://ux.opencontext.org/blogger-gb-news/) - This is an example page. It's different from a blog post because it will stay in one place and will show up in your site navigation (in most themes). Most people start with an About page that introduces them to potential site visitors. It might say something like this: Hi there! I'm a bike messenger
- [AAI/OC Receives NEH Grant to lead an Institute for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities](http://ux.opencontext.org/aai-oc-receives-neh-grant-to-lead-an-institute-for-advanced-topics-in-the-digital-humanities/) - Reposted from the AAI News : The National Endowment for the Humanities has approved an award of $240,312 in support of The Alexandria Archive Institute/Open Context's (AAI/OC) Institute for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities, entitled Networking Archaeological Data and Communities. This project builds on our long-term efforts to make data publishing more inclusive and
- [Looking Ahead to the Next Decade with DINAA (A Virtual Workshop)](http://ux.opencontext.org/looking-ahead-to-the-next-decade-with-dinaa-a-virtual-workshop/) - Please consider joining us for a virtual NSF-funded workshop/webinar hosted by Digital Index of North American Archaeology (DINAA) project, designed to summarize the first decade of work with DINAA, and provide guidance for the second. The workshop will take place on Saturday, 7 August 2021. A primary goal of the workshop is to provide a
- [Ethics, Data, and North American Archaeology](http://ux.opencontext.org/ethics-data-and-north-american-archaeology/) - The Digital Index of North American Archaeology (DINAA) recognizes that ethics is a fundamental aspect of good scientific practice and cultural heritage stewardship. DINAA strives to develop practices based on the core values of collaboration with Indigenous peoples, and respect for Indigenous communities, their history, interests, and needs. We feel it is important to reaffirm
- [New Book Brings 3D Technology to Ancient Cypriot Sculptures](http://ux.opencontext.org/new-book-brings-3d-technology-to-ancient-cypriot-sculptures/) - Reposted from The Digital Press at the University of North Dakota The Digital Press at the University of North Dakota is excited to announce the publication of Visualizing Votive Practice: Exploring Limestone and Terracotta Sculpture from Athienou-Malloura through 3D Models by Derek B. Counts, Erin Walcek Averett, Kevin Garstki, and Michael Toumazou. Visualizing Votive Practice
- [New Project Will Create The Internet of Samples](http://ux.opencontext.org/new-project-will-create-the-internet-of-samples/) - 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](http://ux.opencontext.org/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](http://ux.opencontext.org/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](http://ux.opencontext.org/1919-2/) - 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?](http://ux.opencontext.org/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](http://ux.opencontext.org/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
- [2020 trends in home decor](http://ux.opencontext.org/2020-trends-in-home-decor/) - Introduction Readymade godard brooklyn, kogi shoreditch hashtag hella shaman kitsch man bun pinterest flexitarian. Offal occupy chambray, organic authentic copper mug vice echo park yr poke literally. Ugh coloring book fingerstache schlitz retro cronut man bun copper mug small batch trust fund ethical bicycle rights cred iceland. Celiac schlitz la croix 3 wolf moon butcher.
- [Blog tips for beginners](http://ux.opencontext.org/blog-tips-for-beginners/) - Introduction Readymade godard brooklyn, kogi shoreditch hashtag hella shaman kitsch man bun pinterest flexitarian. Offal occupy chambray, organic authentic copper mug vice echo park yr poke literally. Ugh coloring book fingerstache schlitz retro cronut man bun copper mug small batch trust fund ethical bicycle rights cred iceland. Celiac schlitz la croix 3 wolf moon butcher.
- [Join Zabibas Global Giveaway](http://ux.opencontext.org/join-zabibas-global-giveaway/) - Introduction Readymade godard brooklyn, kogi shoreditch hashtag hella shaman kitsch man bun pinterest flexitarian. Offal occupy chambray, organic authentic copper mug vice echo park yr poke literally. Ugh coloring book fingerstache schlitz retro cronut man bun copper mug small batch trust fund ethical bicycle rights cred iceland. Celiac schlitz la croix 3 wolf moon butcher.
- [Why is living coral color of the year?](http://ux.opencontext.org/why-is-living-coral-color-of-the-year/) - Introduction Readymade godard brooklyn, kogi shoreditch hashtag hella shaman kitsch man bun pinterest flexitarian. Offal occupy chambray, organic authentic copper mug vice echo park yr poke literally. Ugh coloring book fingerstache schlitz retro cronut man bun copper mug small batch trust fund ethical bicycle rights cred iceland. Celiac schlitz la croix 3 wolf moon butcher.
- [Venice Stay & Thoughts](http://ux.opencontext.org/venice-stay-thoughts/) - Introduction Readymade godard brooklyn, kogi shoreditch hashtag hella shaman kitsch man bun pinterest flexitarian. Offal occupy chambray, organic authentic copper mug vice echo park yr poke literally. Ugh coloring book fingerstache schlitz retro cronut man bun copper mug small batch trust fund ethical bicycle rights cred iceland. Celiac schlitz la croix 3 wolf moon butcher.
- [Minimalist books](http://ux.opencontext.org/hello-world/) - Introduction Readymade godard brooklyn, kogi shoreditch hashtag hella shaman kitsch man bun pinterest flexitarian. Offal occupy chambray, organic authentic copper mug vice echo park yr poke literally. Ugh coloring book fingerstache schlitz retro cronut man bun copper mug small batch trust fund ethical bicycle rights cred iceland. Celiac schlitz la croix 3 wolf moon butcher.
- [Feature Development in 2018: Zooming and 3D Models](http://ux.opencontext.org/feature-development-2018-zooming-3d/) - 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](http://ux.opencontext.org/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](http://ux.opencontext.org/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](http://ux.opencontext.org/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
- [New Research Provides Insights into Sea-Level Rise and Archaeological Site Destruction](http://ux.opencontext.org/new-research-provides-insights-into-sea-level-rise-and-archaeological-site-destruction/) - Today, the open access journal PLOS ONE published "Sea-level rise and archaeological site destruction: An example from the southeastern United States using DINAA (Digital Index of North American Archaeology)" (Anderson et al. 2017), a peer-reviewed article that projects how climate change driven sea-level rise will endanger over 13,000 recorded archaeological sites on the eastern seaboard
- [Upcoming Conference on Digital Publishing in Archaeology](http://ux.opencontext.org/upcoming-conference-on-digital-publishing-in-archaeology/) - Next week, Open Context's Program Director, Eric Kansa, will participate in a one-day conference exploring digital publication of archaeological data. The Digital Publication in Mediterranean Archaeology: Current Practice and Common Goals conference is hosted by the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World and the Shelby White and Leon Levy Program for Archaeological Publications, in partnership with
- [Project Spotlight: The Gabii Project](http://ux.opencontext.org/project-spotlight-the-gabii-project/) - The most recent data publication in Open Context features 3D models of archaeological features and objects. The Gabii Project features digital content from excavations at the ancient Latin city of Gabii, a neighboring and rival city-state to Rome in the 1st millennium BCE. Rachel Opitz, a collaborator on the project, which is led by Nicola
- [Contribution Instructions for Biometrical Database of Near East & East Mediterranean Fauna](http://ux.opencontext.org/contribution-instructions-for-biometrical-database/) - As we announced a few weeks ago, we have launched a new project aimed at building a corpus of osteometric data from zooarchaeological assemblages in the Levant region. This post provides more details about how the project will work and options for submitting data. First, an Update on the Project Name! Due to the enthusiastic
- [Endangered Data and the Digital Index of North American Archaeology (DINAA)](http://ux.opencontext.org/endangered-data-and-the-digital-index-of-north-american-archaeology-dinaa/) - Endangered Data Week highlights the urgent need to protect public records. Our ongoing collaboration with the Digital Index of North American Archaeology (DINAA) project provides a specific example of why public records matter. Before we discuss DINAA in detail, first we need to provide some context. The United States has enacted a variety of laws
- [Endangered Data Week](http://ux.opencontext.org/endangered-data-week/) - For the week of April 17-21, we’re joining a large community-wide effort to raise greater awareness of “endangered data”. In light of all of the other crises in the world, highlighting endangered data may seem silly. After all, given the daily news onslaught of increasing authoritarianism, kleptocracy, war, bigotry, poverty and environmental problems, the fate
- [New Data Sharing Project Focuses on Zooarchaeology of the Levant](http://ux.opencontext.org/new-data-sharing-project-focuses-on-zooarchaeology-of-the-levant/) - We are happy to announce the kick-off of a large-scale data integration project, provisionally titled The Biometrical Database of Levantine Fauna. This project's goal is to build up a massive body of openly-available zooarchaeological data from the Levant, with a specific focus on measurement data, in order to facilitate and improve research and instruction worldwide.
- [Project Spotlight: Virtual Valdivia](http://ux.opencontext.org/project-spotlight-virtual-valdivia/) - Open Context Project Spotlight by Hannah Lau The Virtual Valdivia Project is directed by Sarah M. Rowe as part of the NEH-funded Institute of Digital Archaeology Methods and Practice at Michigan State University (#MSUDAI). The goal of the project is to produce an online database of ceramics from the Valdivia culture from coastal Ecuador (4400
- [Project Spotlight: Oracle Bones in East Asia](http://ux.opencontext.org/project-spotlight-oracle-bones-in-east-asia/) - Open Context Project Spotlight by Hannah Lau Our first project spotlight is the Oracle Bones in East Asia project, by Katherine Brunson, Zhipeng Li and Rowan Flad. The project is a collaboration between researchers at Brown University, the Institute of Archaeology, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, and Harvard University. Its goal is to create a
- [New Digital Edition of Pyla-Koutsopetria 1 Links to Data Published in Open Context](http://ux.opencontext.org/new-digital-edition-of-pyla-koutsopetria-1-links-to-data-published-in-open-context/) - Just in time for Love Your Data Week, the American Schools of Oriental Research (ASOR) announced today the publication of the provisional digital version of Pyla-Koutsopetria I: Archaeological Survey of an Ancient Coastal Town (2014). The volume, which is the first of a series on Pyla-Koutsopetria, is co-authored by William Caraher, David Pettegrew and R.
- [Love Your Data Week: Data Rescue](http://ux.opencontext.org/love-your-data-week-data-rescue/) - This week is "Love Your Data Week". The event organizers hope it will raise awareness for the need to better curate research data in order to encourage more collaboration, transparency, and reproducibility. However in the US, "Love your data week" comes during a major political crisis that threatens all of our data. Already, the Trump
- [Announcing the Winner of the OpenContext & Carleton Prize for Archaeological Data Visualization](http://ux.opencontext.org/announcing-the-winner-of-the-opencontext-carleton-prize-for-archaeological-data-visualization/) - We are pleased to announce that the 1st OpenContext & Carleton University Data Visualization Prize has been awarded to the ‘Poggio Civitate VR Data Viewer’, created by the team led by Russell Alleen-Willems. The team hacked this data viewer together over a weekend as a proof-of-concept. In the typical spirit of the digital humanities and
- [NEH - Mellon Grant to Federico Buccellati](http://ux.opencontext.org/neh-mellon-grant-to-federico-buccellati/) - The Alexandria Archive Institute, the nonprofit organization behind Open Context, is very pleased to announce that Dr. Federico Buccellati will join us in 2017 as a Research Fellow, thanks to the generous support of his project by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Federico is the principal investigator
- [DINAA and the Federal Register](http://ux.opencontext.org/dinaa-and-the-federal-register/) - Thanks to recent grants, we have started on the next phase of development for the IMLS and NSF funded Digital Index of North American Archaeology (DINAA) project. DINAA aims to aggregate datasets curated by US state government offices to build an open gazetteer of North American archaeological and historical sites. As we prepare additional state
- [New NSF Awards for DINAA!!](http://ux.opencontext.org/new-nsf-awards-for-dinaa/) - The National Science Foundation (NSF) Archaeology program awarded funds to expand the Digital Index of North American Archaeology (DINAA), under the direction of David G. Anderson (University of Tennessee, Knoxville; NSF #1623621) and Joshua Wells (Indiana University South Bend; NSF #1623644). This new funding builds upon prior NSF support in 2012 and complements another 2016
- [Open Context & Carleton Prize for Archaeological Visualization](http://ux.opencontext.org/open-context-carleton-prize-for-archaeological-visualization/) - Increasingly, archaeology data are being made available openly on the web. But what do these data show? How can we interrogate them? How can we visualize them? How can we re-use data visualizations? We’d like to know. This is why we have created the Open Context and Carleton University Prize for Archaeological Visualization and we
- [IMLS Grant Supports Expansion of DINAA](http://ux.opencontext.org/imls-grant-supports-expansion-of-dinaa/) - The Institute of Museum and Library Services has awarded the AAI a National Leadership Grant for a project that will expand the Digital Index of North American Archaeology (DINAA). Under the direction of Eric Kansa, Program Director for Open Context, the AAI joins many partners collaborating on the development of DINAA, a project originally launched
- [Open Context Wins Award for Outstanding Work in Digital Archaeology](http://ux.opencontext.org/open-context-wins-award-for-outstanding-work-in-digital-archaeology/) - The Archaeological Institute of America (AIA) has selected Open Context as the 2016 recipient of its Award for Outstanding Work in Digital Archaeology. The award recognizes “projects, groups, and individuals that deploy digital technology in innovative ways in the realms of excavation, research, teaching, publishing, or outreach” with a goal of “recognizing the value of
- [Open Context Upgrade Progress](http://ux.opencontext.org/open-context-upgrade-progress/) - Last summer, we launched a major programming effort to upgrade Open Context. The upgrade involves completely rewriting all of Open Context's software so as to more efficiently scale Open Context and take advantage of technology standards that have emerged to prominence since our last major upgrade back in 2009-2011. We've now deployed the new version
- [3 reasons to visit the Open Context booth at the SAA meeting](http://ux.opencontext.org/3-reasons-to-visit-the-open-context-booth-at-the-saa-meeting/) - At this year’s SAA meeting in San Francisco, Open Context will have it's first-ever exhibit hall booth! Swing by booth #603 to say hello! If you need a reason to visit, here are three: "I have questions (or suggestions) about data publishing!" Many people have data they want share, but questions about how to go
- [Research outcomes of multi-author collaboration using open data](http://ux.opencontext.org/research-outcomes-of-multi-author-collaboration-using-open-data/) - Q: What do you get when you mix a room full of zooarchaeologists with 200,000 records from seventeen archaeological sites? A. An exercise in herding cats B. A research paper in PLoS ONE C. Both of the above For better or for worse, the answer, in this case, is “C. Both of the above.” In
- [Upgrading Open Context](http://ux.opencontext.org/upgrading-open-context/) - With summer wrapping up and a new fellowship about to begin, it's time to share some updates about Open Context. Warning! Much of this post is pretty geeky. So if you don't enjoy geeking out on the nitty-gritty of archaeological informatics issue, you're welcome to move on to something else! I'm busy working with John
- [Zooarchaeology of Neolithic Anatolia: Research Outcomes from Large-Scale Data Integration with Open Context](http://ux.opencontext.org/zooarchaeology-of-neolithic-anatolia-research-outcomes-from-large-scale-data-integration-with-open-context/) - We are happy to report the publication of a paper synthesizing several integrated datasets documenting zooarchaeological specimens from Neolithic Anatolia. The open access journal PLOS ONE published the paper on Friday. The paper presents results of a large-scale data sharing and integration study funded by a “Computable Data Challenge” award from the Encyclopedia of Life
- [DINAA @ SAA](http://ux.opencontext.org/dinaa-saa/) - The DINAA project had a very successful reception at the 79th Annual Society for American Archaeology conference in Austin, TX last month. With several presentations spanning traditional conference papers, posters, and a lightning talk at the Digital Data Interest Group meeting, conference-goers were provided with no shortage of opportunities to learn about multiple aspects of
- [DINAA Poster Symposium Sneak Peek](http://ux.opencontext.org/dinaa-poster-symposium-sneak-peek/) - Here’s the first of several posters about the DINAA project that will be presented at the SAAs this week in Austin. About the Poster: Yes, this poster is printed on fabric. With a tip from a colleague on Twitter, we discovered Spoonflower, a company that prints on fabric. What a result!! The fabric poster is
- [Workshop Recap: State Site Files, DINAA, and Archaeology](http://ux.opencontext.org/workshop-recap-state-site-files-dinaa-and-archaeology/) - We recently concluded a workshop for the DINAA project, held at the University of Tennessee (UT), Knoxville Office of Research on March 19th and 20th. The workshop brought together more than 30 participants, including managers and researchers from universities and state and federal agencies across Eastern North America, as well as graduate students from UT
- [Publish or Perish 2014, Resurrected Online](http://ux.opencontext.org/publish-or-perish-2014-resurrected-online/) - On February 13-14, the IFHA Project at UC Davis hosted the first Innovating Communication in Scholarship (ICIS) conference. The theme this year was Publish or Perish - the Future of Academic Publishing and Careers. Open Context’s Eric Kansa attended the conference as a panelist in the session “Beyond Journals & New Forms of Digital Publishing.”
- [Celebrating a Year of Open Data](http://ux.opencontext.org/celebrating-a-year-of-open-data/) - 2013 has been a really big year for open data. In February, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy announced a new mandate for open access to peer-reviewed outcomes of federally-funded research, including publications and data. The various agencies have been exploring how they will enact this new policy, and have welcomed input
- [Florida and Georgia Site Files Launch DINAA Project](http://ux.opencontext.org/florida-and-georgia-site-files-launch-dinaa-project/) - The continent of North American has a long and rich history of human occupation spanning more than 13,000 years. The Digital Index of North American Archaeology (DINAA) is a multi-institutional project to help make the history of settlement in the Americas accessible to everyone. The two-year project, which is funded by the National Science Foundation,
- [Recommendations on Ethics, Sustainability, and Open Access in Archaeology](http://ux.opencontext.org/recommendations-on-ethics-sustainability-and-open-access-in-archaeology/) - In the article On Ethics, Sustainability, and Open Access in Archaeology available in the September 2013 issue of the SAA Archaeological Record, co-authors Eric Kansa, Sarah Whitcher Kansa, and Lynne Goldstein provide recommendations to the SAA for improving access to research results in archaeology. The authors welcome comments on the following five recommendations: Gain experience
- [DINAA Project at Digital Humanities 2013: Open Context and North American Site Files](http://ux.opencontext.org/dinaa-project-at-digital-humanities-2013/) - While Sarah and Eric Kansa are busy finishing up field work and "data wrangling" at Poggio Civitate, our colleagues and collaborators will discuss the Digital Index of North American Archaeology (DINAA) project at the 2013 Digital Humanities Conference. Josh Wells (PI) will take part in a session Current Research & Practice in Digital Archaeology (organized
- [Open Context Honored by White House as a Contribution to Open Science](http://ux.opencontext.org/white-house-honors-contributions-to-open-science/) - We're proud to announce that today the White House is recognizing Eric Kansa as a “Champion of Change” in Open Science. We are honored and gratified that the White House has chosen to recognize the research community in the humanities and social sciences, including archaeology, the discipline where we focus most of our efforts. We
- [Comments on OSTP Open Data Policy](http://ux.opencontext.org/comments-on-ostp-open-data-policy/) - Today, Open Context’s Eric Kansa spoke (via phone) at the meeting on Public Access to Federally-Supported Research and Development Data and Publications: Data, hosted by the National Research Council of the National Academies. The meeting, taking place May 16-17, is hearing invited and public comments on the White House OSTP memo on expanding access to
- [Lessons in Data Reuse, Integration, and Publication](http://ux.opencontext.org/lessons-in-data-reuse-integration-and-publication/) - On April 17, members of the Central and Western Anatolian Neolithic Working Group met at Kiel University to participate in the International Open Workshop: Socio-Environmental Dynamics over the Last 12,000 Years: The Creation of Landscapes III. Working group participants presented their hot-off-the-press analyses of various aspects of integrated faunal datasets from over one dozen Anatolian
- [New data publications in Open Context highlight early globalization](http://ux.opencontext.org/new-data-publications-in-open-context-highlight-early-globalization/) - What does a fragment of a Canton blue and white porcelain plate from the early 19th century in Alaska have in common with a stone jar from the mid-18th century Northern Mariana Islands? Give up? Both were published in Open Context this week! The two projects these objects come from also share a common theme—
- [Decoding Data- A View from the Trenches](http://ux.opencontext.org/decoding-data-a-view-from-the-trenches/) - This has been a busy data month for me, as I prepare zooarchaeological datasets for publication for a major data sharing project supported by the Encyclopedia of Life Computable Data Challenge award. The majority of my time has been spent decoding datasets, so I’ve had many quiet hours to mull over data publishing workflows. I’ve
- [New Publication on Open Access and Open Data](http://ux.opencontext.org/new-publication-open-access-open-data/) - Eric Kansa’s hot-off-the-press paper Openness and Archaeology’s Information Ecosystem provides a timely discussion of how Open Access and Open Data models can help researchers move past some of the dysfunctions of conventional scholarly publishing. Rather than threatening quality and peer-review, these models can unlock new opportunities for finding, preserving and analyzing information that advance the
- [Digital Humanities Conference in Berkeley](http://ux.opencontext.org/digital-humanities-conference-berkeley/) - The 2012 Pacific Neighborhood Consortium (PNC) Annual Conference and Joint Meetings will take place at School of Information at UC Berkeley from December 7th to December 9th, 2012. The conference is hosted by the Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative (ECAI) and the School of Information at UC Berkeley. The main theme is New Horizons: Information Technology
- [Cyberinfrastructure in Near Eastern Archaeology](http://ux.opencontext.org/cyberinfrastructure-in-near-eastern-archaeology/) - At the 2012 ASOR meeting in Chicago last month, the AAI co-organized (with Chuck Jones, ISAW) and presented in the second of a 3-year session Topics in Cyberinfrastructure, Digital Humanities, and Near Eastern Archaeology I. This year’s theme was From Data to Knowledge: Organization, Publication, and Research Outcomes. Presentations and demonstrations took place two back-to-back
- [The Red Sea Is Arabian, Erythraean, ...](http://ux.opencontext.org/the-red-sea-is-arabian-erythraean/) - Place Name Clustering in Pleiades and TAVO Since September of last year, I have been working with Eric Kansa on the Gazetteer of the Ancient Near East project of the Alexandria Archive Institute (with NEH funding). Our goal is to export the cornucopia of information contained in the index of the Tübinger Atlas des Vorderen
- [Workshop Develops Infrastructure for Archaeology in Australia](http://ux.opencontext.org/workshop-develops-infrastructure-for-archaeology-in-australia/) - AAI’s Technology Director Eric Kansa is currently in Sydney attending the Stocktaking Workshop of the Federated Archaeological Information Management System project (FAIMS). FAIMS launched in the summer of 2012 with a major grant from the National eResearch Collaboration Tools and Resources program (NeCTAR), an Australian government program to build new infrastructure for Australian researchers (working
- [NSF Support for Linking State Site Files](http://ux.opencontext.org/nsf-support-for-linking-state-site-files/) - We are delighted to announce the success of our grant proposal to the National Science Foundation to create interoperability models for archaeological site databases in the eastern United States (NSF #1216810 & #1217240). Our core team consists of researchers from the Department of Anthropology and Archaeological Research Laboratory at the University of Tennessee, the Alexandria Archive
- [NEH Support for Publishing Archaeology to the Web of Data](http://ux.opencontext.org/neh-support-for-publishing-archaeology-to-the-web-of-data/) - We interrupt our vacation for a short blog post. We are very pleased to report that the National Endowment for the Humanities just awarded a Digital Humanities Implementation grant to the Alexandria Archive Institute in support of our efforts to develop data publishing services with Open Context. In collaboration with a team of archaeologists working
- [Kenan Tepe's Massive Dataset](http://ux.opencontext.org/kenan-tepes-massive-dataset/) - We are very pleased to announce the online publication of the second installment of the Upper Tigris Archaeological Research Project's excavation data, images, and documentation. The Upper Tigris Archaeological Research Project (UTARP), under the direction of Bradley J. Parker (University of Utah), was active in the Upper Tigris River Region of southeastern Turkey between 1998
- [Archaeology Icon Salon](http://ux.opencontext.org/archaeology-icon-salon/) - A collaborative design event producing archaeology-related symbols for the public domain On May 23, the AAI will host the first-ever Archaeology Icon Salon—a facilitated design session where event participants generate icons and symbols that visually convey concepts frequently needed in archaeology. The event will inform developments to Open Context by using visual design strategies to
- [Part of the Web, not just on the Web](http://ux.opencontext.org/part-of-the-web-not-just-on-the-web/) - We're really pleased to collaborate with some amazing people and projects that have a deep understanding and appreciation for the Web. The Pelagios project is working out some very low-barrier-to-entry approaches to share references to ancient places (curated by the Pleiades Gazetteer). Since place is such an important concept for ancient studies, shared notions of
- [Open Context's Editorial Policies & Author Guidelines](http://ux.opencontext.org/open-contexts-editorial-policies-author-guidelines/) - Wondering how to publish your data with Open Context? We have news for you! With help from our Editorial Board, we have released the first version of Open Context's Editorial Policies & Author Guidelines. This document contains essential information about publishing with Open Context, including: Open Context's open access and copyright policies, what you should
- [Publication on Data Reuse, Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory](http://ux.opencontext.org/publication-on-data-reuse-journal-of-archaeological-method-and-theory/) - We're delighted to announce the publication of "Other People's Data: A Demonstration of the Imperative of Publishing Primary Data" in the Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory. The lead author is Prof. Levent Atici (UNLV), a member of the Open Context Editorial Board. The "online first" version of the paper can be accessed here. The
- [Publishing Kenan Tepe with Open Context](http://ux.opencontext.org/publishing-kenan-tepe-with-open-context/) - We're very pleased to announce the publication of a significant portion of the Kenan Tepe excavations. Excavations at Kenan Tepe, directed by Bradley Parker (University of Utah) and co-directed by Lynn Swartz Dodd (University of Southern California), represent part of the investigations of the Upper Tigris Archaeological Research Project (UTARP). UTARP organized major excavation and survey programs
- [Open Context Upgrade](http://ux.opencontext.org/open-context-upgrade/) - For the most part, we're able to upgrade and update Open Context without major disruption. Today, however, is an exception. We've made some significant updates to the data structure behind the site so that Open Context can better support additional query features, especially using standard units of measure. We're also upgrading Apache-Solr (the software that
- [Open Context Data in GitHub](http://ux.opencontext.org/open-context-data-in-github/) - We've recently completed exporting the majority of the data from Open Context to GitHub. For most data in Open Context, we link directly into the GitHub repository where the version history of the XML representation can be seen. Here's an example: A coin from Domuztepe (the GitHub link follows the thumbnails). GitHub is mainly a
- [An Open Education Week Tribute to Open Data](http://ux.opencontext.org/an-open-education-week-tribute-to-open-data/) - This week (March 5-10) is Open Education Week, raising awareness of the open education movement and its impact on teaching and learning worldwide. Today, over 200 universities worldwide put open educational content online—a concept that was only in its infancy a decade ago. The Open Education movement has been spurred by support from such organizations
- [Our Office of Science and Technology Policy Recommendations](http://ux.opencontext.org/our-office-of-science-and-technology-policy-recommendations/) - Overview The Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) recently issued a Request for Information welcoming comments and recommendations for ensuring long-term stewardship of, and broad public access to, digital data resulting from federally funded research. The Alexandria Archive Institute (AAI) commends the OSTP for further exploring this topic. The AAI (http://alexandriaarchive.org) is a non-profit
- [(DRAFT) Recommendations to the Office of Science and Technology Policy](http://ux.opencontext.org/recommendations-to-the-office-of-science-and-technology-policy/) - The Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) recently issued a Request for Information (RFI) welcoming comments and recommendations for ensuring long-term stewardship of, and broad public access to, digital data resulting from federally funded research. Our main recommendations are below. We also provided answers to the specific questions listed in the RFI. The full
- [Archaeology 2.0 Book Update](http://ux.opencontext.org/archaeology-2-0-book-update/) - The “dead tree” version of Archaeology 2.0: New Approaches to Communication and Collaboration is now available for purchase (only $39.95!) from the David Brown Book Company. A bound book is a tried and true technology and we're very happy to see the book in print! As a bonus, we've put an Easter egg in the
- [White House Seeks Input on Public Access to Federally-Funded Research Results](http://ux.opencontext.org/white-house-requests-input-on-public-access-to-federally-funded-research-results/) - The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy last week released two Requests for Information (RFI) that offer a great opportunity to weigh in on critical questions around access to the results of publicly-funded research. Read on and follow the links to contribute your two cents. 1. Public Access to Digital Data Resulting from
- [Data Journals at 2011 DLF Forum](http://ux.opencontext.org/data-journals-at-2011-dlf-forum/) - The Digital Library Federation (DLF) Forum will take place in Baltimore next week (October 31 - November 1). Eric Kansa will present a poster (1MB PDF) about developing a data journal for archaeology to help set, communicate, and maintain quality of datasets relevant to a given theme or discipline. This represents a collaboration between the
- [Open Access Week Presentation](http://ux.opencontext.org/open-access-week-presentation/) - A big thanks to the University of Arizona Libraries for their kind invitation to speak at their Open Access Week events. I joined Victoria Stodden who talked about reproducibility of research and Steve Koch who talked about integrating open science in instruction and his research activities (including a great example of collaboration mediated by YouTube,
- [The Walters Art Museum and Creative Commons](http://ux.opencontext.org/the-walters-art-museum-and-creative-commons/) - From AWOL: The Walters Art Museum announced this week that it has removed copyright restrictions from more than 10,000 Images. Those images are now licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0) Collections at the Walters relating to antiquity include: Art of the Ancient Americas Art of Ancient Egypt and Nubia Art of Ancient Greece
- [Open Context and CDL “Data Journals”](http://ux.opencontext.org/open-context-and-cdl-data-journals/) - We've been working to develop a model of “data sharing as publication” in our work with Open Context. In our view, publication helps communicate some of the need for quality and standards alignment that makes effective data dissemination something more formal than implied by the term “sharing.” We're definitely not alone in this assessment, and
- [Open Context's Editorial Board](http://ux.opencontext.org/open-contexts-editorial-board/) - Open Context aims to make research data a valuable and valued aspect of scholarly communications, especially in archaeology. Its development is necessarily a long-term project because it requires inventing a host of new work-flows that can mesh with the realities of the professional lives of researchers. Researchers face tremendous time pressures. This makes them generally
- [Archaeology 2.0 Book Published, Open Access](http://ux.opencontext.org/archaeology-2-0-book-published-open-access/) - We're delighted to announce that Archaeology 2.0: New Approaches to Communication and Collaboration is now available via the University of California's eScholarship repository, at the following link: http://escholarship.org/uc/item/1r6137tb This book explores the social use and context of the World Wide Web within the discipline of archaeology. While the Web has radically altered journalism, commerce, media
- [What we're up to...](http://ux.opencontext.org/what-were-up-to/) - Hi All, A quick update. We're in the middle of several new developments for Open Context. These mainly center on: Linked Open Data: For all the projects currently published in Open Context, we're busy referencing some important shared vocabularies using Linked Open Data methods. Linking Open Context data to other relevant data on the Web
- [Blog Restoration in Progress!](http://ux.opencontext.org/hello-world-2/) - We're recovering this blog after a major server hardware failure. We'll restore old content soon!
- [Encyclopaedia of the Hellenic World](http://ux.opencontext.org/encyclopaedia-of-the-hellenic-world/) - The Encyclopaedia of the Hellenic World (EHW) "is an original electronic project aiming at collecting, recording, documenting, presenting and promoting the historical data that testify to the presence of Hellenic [from ancient Greek till the Ottoman period] culture throughout time and space." There are three main areas: Asia Minor, Black Sea and Constantinople. EHW’s ultimate
- [FARLI Ancient Pottery Database](http://ux.opencontext.org/farli-ancient-pottery-database/) - The Foundation for Archaeological Research in the Land of Israel (FARLI) "announce[d] the launch of its newest Project: The FARLI Ancient Pottery Database. In the spirit of FARLI's goals to promote the archaeological research of the land of Israel and the southern Levant, and to develop new technological tools in the service of archaeology, ...
- [Bibliotheca Alexandrina's Digital Library of Calligraphies and Inscriptions](http://ux.opencontext.org/bibliotheca-alexandrinas-digital-library-of-calligraphies-and-inscriptions/) - From AWOL comes the announcement of a new project of the Bibliotheca Alexandrina. The latter is a modern twist on the famous ancient Hellenistic library of Alexandria, the one that supposedly went up in flames when Julius Caesar paid Egypt a visit, destroying what was reputed to be the largest and best research library in
- [Publishing Archaeolocial Data on the Web: Guidelines and Discussions](http://ux.opencontext.org/publishing-archaeolocial-data-on-the-web-guidelines-and-discussions/) - I am pleased to report a great turnout at the at the workshop on data publishing at the American Schools of Oriental Research meeting (ASOR) in Atlanta just before Thanksgiving. Thanks to Discussants Matt Vincent, Stephen Savage and Aaron Brody for their unique perspectives, and to Eric Kansa, Convener Extraordinaire! We had prepared handouts for
- [Digital Type Collection of Historic Ceramics](http://ux.opencontext.org/digital-type-collection-of-historic-ceramics/) - The Florida Museum of Natural History has a nice online type collections of historic period archaeological ceramics (1492-1850), complete with detailed search features. With the support of the National Endowment for the Humanities, we are able to offer it on-line as a service to archaeologists, museum curators, material culture specialists, and anyone interested in historic
- [Musée achéménide](http://ux.opencontext.org/musee-achemenide/) - An international collective of scholars led by Pierre Briant (Collège de France, Paris) have established an online "Achaemenid museum." This elegant musée achéménide website utilizes Flash to provide access to a fine collection of artifacts and historical information regarding the classic Persian civilization known as the Achaemenid empire, the most famous leader of which was
- [Ancient World Image Bank](http://ux.opencontext.org/ancient-world-image-bank/) - The ever-productive people at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World (NYU) are continuing to add on to their Ancient World Image Bank. So far the collection contains photos from archaeological sites in Turkey, the Levant, Egypt, Greece and Italy. They chose to use Flickr instead of setting up their own database system. Maybe
- [Workshop on data publishing for Near Eastern archaeologists](http://ux.opencontext.org/workshop-on-data-publishing-for-near-eastern-archaeologists/) - "Publishing Archaeological Data from the Field to the Web" Thursday November 18 at 2pm, Sheraton Atlanta Open to all ASOR meeting attendees At the upcoming 2010 American Schools of Oriental Research (ASOR) meeting in Atlanta, the creators of Open Context are leading a workshop focused on effective techniques for Near Eastern archaeologists to publish their
- [Digital Collections at the University of Michigan Libraries](http://ux.opencontext.org/digital-collections-at-the-university-of-michigan-libraries/) - The AWOL blog drew my attention to the University of Michigan Digital Library Production Service (DLPS) Digital Collections, in short the MLibrary Digital Collections. Here are a few of the more relevant collections (mostly open access): Egyptian Amulets, Kelsey Museum of Archaeology The Egyptian Amulet catalog is a collaborative project between the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology,
- [Papyri.info](http://ux.opencontext.org/papyriinfo/) - I'm always interested in how online databases of all types of cultural heritage are structured. What is their interface, how does the search function work, how user-friendly is the browsing experience, is it easy for scholars to contribute, etc.? Another fine example has come to my attention: Papyri.info, an initiative of New York University. ...
- [2010 Open Zooarchaeology Prize Winners](http://ux.opencontext.org/2010-open-zooarchaeology-prize-winners/) - In celebration of Open Access Week, the Alexandria Archive Institute has announced the winners of the 2010 Junior Researcher Open Zooarchaeology Prize competition. The Junior Researcher Open Zooarchaeology Prize competition awards the best open access, reusable content presented at an International Council for Archaeozoology (ICAZ) conference by a junior researcher (current student or degree in
- [Archaeobotanical Database in Tübingen](http://ux.opencontext.org/archaeobotanical-database-in-tubingen/) - Scholars at the University of Tübingen in Germany are "investigat[ing] the development of prehistoric wild plant floras of the Near East and the Eastern Mediterranean. The geographic area ... represented in the data, includes Greece, Turkey, Western Iran, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Israel, Jordan, and Northern Egypt. The chronological frame comprises the Chalcolithic period, Bronze and
- [Nestor's widget](http://ux.opencontext.org/nestors-widget/) - Nestor, the Bibliography of Aegean and Related Areas, was started in 1957 as a traditional paper publication of the University of Wisconsin, later the University of Cincinnati. Nowadays, it's also available on the internet with a search function included. What makes this bibliography database stand out though is that they offer an interesting way to
- [Keyhole Sink petroglyph vandalism](http://ux.opencontext.org/keyhole-sink-petroglyph-vandalism/) - An article in The Arizona Republic tells of the damage inflicted by vandals to the Keyhole Sink petroglyph site in the Kaibab National Forest east of Williams, AZ. This is unfortunately just the latest in a long series of attacks against archaeological heritage in the US. The same article provides a slide show of more
- [Smithsonian Anthropology Collections Database](http://ux.opencontext.org/smithsonian-anthropology-collections-database/) - The Jeffersonian—oops! no, Dr. "Bones" Brennan doesn't work here—Smithsonian Institution has a nice, online Anthropology Collections Database. It "includes 97% of the cataloged specimens that are currently in the Ethnology and Archaeology collections. New records are added as specimens are cataloged. The online records include the fields of information most commonly requested by researchers, including digital
- [NSF Links to Open Context for Data Sharing](http://ux.opencontext.org/nsf-links-to-open-context-for-data-sharing/) - The National Science Foundation lists Open Context as one option for grant-seekers to archive archaeological research data. See here for an example. This demonstrates how data sharing is becoming an expected outcome of the research process. This is something that many other fields have been practicing for a few years now, but archaeology and the
- [OIDOO](http://ux.opencontext.org/oidoo/) - "Oidoo"? It sounds a bit like something Scooby-Doo would say... Just kidding. It actually is an acronym that stands for Oriental Institute Demotic Ostraca Online. Held in the University of Chicago's Oriental Institute Museum, it is "a large collection of nearly 900 Demotic ostraca, pottery sherds upon which ancient scribes recorded a wide variety of
- [Chogha Mish Fauna](http://ux.opencontext.org/chogha-mish-fauna/) - We are proud to announce the arrival of a new, exciting project in the Open Context database, co-authored by Levent Atici (University of Nevada Las Vegas), Justin S.E. Lev-Tov (Statistical Research, Inc.) and our own Sarah Whitcher Kansa. Chogha Mish Fauna This project uses the publicly available dataset of over 30,000 animal bone specimens from excavations
- [WFU Museum of Anthropology Online Artifact Database](http://ux.opencontext.org/wfu-museum-of-anthropology-online-artifact-database/) - A nice article (also available as pdf) in the news section of the recently-revamped Archaeological Institute of America website introduces the Museum of Anthropology Online Artifact Database at Wake Forest University (Winston-Salem, NC). "The Museum of Anthropology’s collections of approximately 28,000 archaeological and ethnographic objects represent ancient and contemporary traditional non-Western cultures from around the
- [CSA Newsletter](http://ux.opencontext.org/csa-newsletter/) - I'd like to draw attention to a resource probably known to some of our readers but not all: the CSA Newsletter. According to the CSA website, "the Center for the Study of Architecture ... is devoted to advancing the use of computers, computer technologies, and digital information technologies in the service of architectural history, archaeology, and related disciplines
- [Digitising Cultural Heritage at the BM](http://ux.opencontext.org/digitising-cultural-heritage-at-the-bm/) - A study day at the British Museum Saturday 4 September, 09.55–16.30 Stevenson Lecture Theatre Free, booking advised As well as revolutionising modern work and social life, digital technology is also transforming cultural heritage management. The power to store, organise and distribute vast quantities of complex data makes it possible to do things that only 20
- [AMNH Explorer](http://ux.opencontext.org/amnh-explorer/) - The American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) in New York City has just released an iPhone app to serve as a virtual guide to its collection. "Chart your own course at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City with AMNH Explorer—a new app that is part custom navigation system, part personal tour
- [One Week, One Tool](http://ux.opencontext.org/one-week-one-tool/) - The Center for History and New Media (CHNM) at George Mason University organized One Week, One Tool. A Digital Humanities Barn Raising during the last week of July. ... a unique summer institute, one that aims to teach participants how to build an open source digital tool for humanities scholarship by actually building a tool,
- [Online archaeological-site catalogs](http://ux.opencontext.org/online-archaeological-site-catalogs/) - I'd like to point out two examples of what I would call online archaeological-site catalogs, i.e., databases that provide brief but to-the-point info on as many sites as possible of a specific region. The first example is the Delta Survey. An information centre for the archaeological sites of Lower Egypt, an initiative of the Egypt Exploration Society
- [Mobile learning/research user needs](http://ux.opencontext.org/mobile-learningresearch-user-needs/) - Most readers of this blog are involved in some form or another in the design, editing or maintenance of web sites/pages/applications. We usually consider first of all regular users sitting behind a desktop or laptop. However, mobile devices are growing ever more capable of meaningful web surfing. The iPad is just the latest example. Mobile
- [The Global Egyptian Museum](http://ux.opencontext.org/the-global-egyptian-museum/) - The Comité International pour l'Égyptologie/International Committee for Egyptology (CIPEG, a committee of ICOM) provided the impetus for the Global Egyptian Museum project (GEM). It is "an international electronic database of Egyptian objects as a tool for scholarly research" (14,975 entries) but also including a version geared toward the general public (1,340 entries). "The aim of the GEM
- [Tutankhamun: Anatomy of an Excavation](http://ux.opencontext.org/tutankhamun-anatomy-of-an-excavation/) - An article in The Guardian (UK)—tip of the hat to Heather Baker—drew my attention to an Egyptological gem: the Tutankhamun: Anatomy of an Excavation website. This labor of love by a team led by Jaromir Malek of Oxford University, started in 1993 and finally in sight of the finish, "is ambitious in its scope but simple in
- [Documenting and Sharing the "Living Art" of Iraq](http://ux.opencontext.org/documenting-and-sharing-the-living-art-of-iraq/) - Yesterday's New York Times Art & Design section features a piece entitled "Iraq’s Modern Art Collection, Waiting to Re-emerge." This article provides an excellent overview of the tragic fate of Iraq's modern art that has inspired the creation of the Modern Art Iraq Archive (MAIA). MAIA is a collaborative effort between Nada Shabout, an assistant
- [Travelers in the Middle East Archive](http://ux.opencontext.org/travelers-in-the-middle-east-archive/) - The Travelers in the Middle East Archive (TIMEA) at Rice University in Houston "is a digital archive that focuses on Western interactions with the Middle East, particularly travels to Egypt during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. TIMEA offers electronic texts such as travel guides, museum catalogs, and travel narratives, photographic and hand-drawn images of Egypt,
- [Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland](http://ux.opencontext.org/corpus-of-romanesque-sculpture-in-britain-and-ireland/) - The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland (CRSBI) is a growing, well-designed database of this particular type of Medieval sculptures in the British Isles (nothing yet for Scotland though). "Significant quantities of previously unrecorded material have come to light in the course of the project, and there are many examples of sculpture that are
- [New Data Publication in Open Context: Khirbat al-Mudayna al-'Aliya](http://ux.opencontext.org/new-data-publication-in-open-context-khirbat-al-mudayna-al-aliya/) - Interested in the archaeology of Jordan? Check out hot-off-the-press data from Khirbat al-Mudayna al-'Aliya, an early Iron Age settlement in a semi-arid zone of west-central Jordan (co-directed by Bruce Routledge and Benjamin Porter). Start with the project overview and then move on to browse around the project data. A highlight of this project is the
- [Online Museums and Indigenous Cultural Heritage](http://ux.opencontext.org/online-museums-and-indigenous-cultural-heritage/) - I am starting to explore and use the academia.edu website. I made myself an account and receive notifications of papers uploaded in my fields of interest. I'd like to point an interesting one: "From Loss of Objects to Recovery of Meanings: Online Museums and Indigenous Cultural Heritage" by Jeremy Pilcher and Saskia Vermeylen, in M/C
- [ICONEA's ICOBASE](http://ux.opencontext.org/iconeas-icobase/) - The International Conference of Near Eastern Archaeomusicology (ICONEA) maintains an online Database of Middle and Near Eastern Archaeomusicological Data, in short ICOBASE. "It is the receptacle of the iconography, the terracottae, extant instruments, cuneiform texts, and all materials relevant to the subject." Tags and categories allow for finding relevant entries for, e.g., balag-drums. ICOBASE is still
- [British Museum collections database](http://ux.opencontext.org/british-museum-collections-database/) - The British Museum collections database is getting larger: "The collections of the Department of the Middle East are now available online on the British Museum website: ... The catalogue includes more than 230,000 objects and inscriptions from the Middle East, ancient and modern. There you will also find relevant objects from ancient Egypt and other parts of the
- [Virtual World Project](http://ux.opencontext.org/virtual-world-project/) - One of the better virtual-archaeological-sites websites I have come across is the Virtual World Project. It started with virtual-reality movies of excavations in Turkey and Greece but now focuses on Israel, Palestine and Jordan. The interface is smooth and navigation is easy and quick, at least with my broadband connection. Here's an example: Lehun in
- [Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum](http://ux.opencontext.org/corpus-vasorum-antiquorum/) - The Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum ("extensive collection of ancient vases") was originally a print series started in the 1950s, mainly focusing on ancient Greek vases. The 300+ fascicules document specific museum collections from all over the world. The whole series is now open access. In its online incarnation, you can browse by museum,vase type, etc. There is
- [Ubi Erat Lupa](http://ux.opencontext.org/ubi-erat-lupa/) - VBI ERAT LVPA—in Latin, the letter "V" was used for both the "v" and the "u"—is an initiative of the Forschungsgesellschaft Wiener Stadtarchäologie (Austria) and is subtitled "Die Internet-Fährte der römischen Wölfin" or less mellifluous in English: "The Internet Tracks of the Roman She-Wolf." "Ubi erat lupa" is of course Latin for "Where was the she-wolf"—this
- [Opendig](http://ux.opencontext.org/opendig/) - Chuck Jones alerted me to a new initiative: opendig. I like their slogan: "Free your notes!" The intro states: "At opendig.org we are endeavoring to offer a place for any archaeological excavation to host their dig notes online. Imagine a place where you can search not only your own site for information, but also sites in
- [CNI Spring 2010 meeting](http://ux.opencontext.org/cni-spring-2010-meeting/) - The Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) is currently holding its Spring Meeting in Baltimore. As usual, several of the speakers are of interest to us. When I was going through the schedule, these jumped out at me: M. Page (Emory University), "Mapping the Sanctuary of the Great Gods": about an important Hellenic and pre-Hellenic religious
- [Ensuring long-term access to digital information](http://ux.opencontext.org/ensuring-long-term-access-to-digital-information/) - In the website reviews published in this blog, the answer to the "Permanence/Archiving" question is very often unclear at best. That's why the final report published by the Blue Ribbon Task Force on Sustainable Digital Preservation and Access, entitled Sustainable Economics for a Digital Planet. Ensuring Long-Term Access to Digital Information, is very timely. It is
- [DAI Archaeological Bibliography online users' poll](http://ux.opencontext.org/dai-archaeological-bibliography-online-users-poll/) - "For many years the German Archaeological Institute [Deutsches Archäologisches Institut or DAI] has been compiling the Archaeological Bibliography which has established itself as an essential research tool in the area of ancient cultures of the Mediterranean Sea. Since 2002 it has been freely available on the internet and offers a thesaurus based systematical search in
- [JSTOR Auction Catalogs](http://ux.opencontext.org/jstor-auction-catalogs/) - JSTOR, the non-profit—but unfortunately not free for people not connected with a member university or institution—digital archive of journals and monographs from across the humanities, social sciences and sciences, has launched a new initiative: JSTOR Auction Catalogs. It is "a pilot project funded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to understand how auction catalogs can
- [Hedgehogs, magicians'](http://ux.opencontext.org/hedgehogs-magicians/) - In October of last year, the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) and the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) organized a forum entitled "An Age of Discovery: Distinctive Collections in the Digital Age." The proceedings are online. You can listen to the presentations or read the papers. A few speakers included actual physical artifacts in their
- [Website Review: BSR LADC](http://ux.opencontext.org/website-review-bsr-ladc/) - Full Name: The British School at Rome Library and Archive Digital Collections URL: http://www.bsrdigitalcollections.it/ Content: Photographic prints and negatives (120,000+) relating to the history of Italy and the Roman world Authorship: Project leaders Valerie Scott and Alessandra Giovenco (both BSR); individual database entries do not have authors entry page Host/Maintenance: BSR; BSR; the frequency of
- [Translations of Numismatic Terms](http://ux.opencontext.org/translations-of-numismatic-terms/) - Via Chuck Jones, I learned that the Parthia website has an interesting feature: a "Translations of Numismatic Terms" page. It has a complex search feature with results downloadable in Excel, Word, or PDF formats. This is a nice interactive web tool. Check it out, even if you're not into Parthian coins.
- [Researcher-Managed Collections Working Group](http://ux.opencontext.org/researcher-managed-collections-working-group/) - An increasing number of institutions and large projects are sharing their collections online (as demonstrated by the continuing series of project reviews on this blog). These entities tend to find enough (but often not much) funding, time and technical expertise to share at least a portion of their digital content. Large institutions like museums and
- [Assessing the Future Landscape of Scholarly Communication](http://ux.opencontext.org/assessing-the-future-landscape-of-scholarly-communication/) - A new and important study has just been published on the eScholarship (University of California) website: Assessing the Future Landscape of Scholarly Communication: An Exploration of Faculty Values and Needs in Seven Disciplines by Diane Harley et al. "Since 2005, the Center for Studies in Higher Education (CSHE), with generous funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, has
- [New Technology for Digitization of Ancient Objects and Documents](http://ux.opencontext.org/new-technology-for-digitization-of-ancient-objects-and-documents/) - Announcement New Technology for Digitization of Ancient Objects and Documents; Joint project of the Archaeological Computing Research Group (ACRG) and the School of Electronics and Computer Science (ECS), Southampton and the Centre for the Study of Ancient Documents (CSAD), Oxford, the Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI), Los Angeles-Philadelphia-Oxford-Berlin, and the Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature
- [Verily VERA](http://ux.opencontext.org/verily-vera/) - This looks interesting: "The Virtual Environments for Research in Archaeology (VERA) project aims to produce a fully-fledged virtual research environment for the archaeological community. It will address user needs, enhancing the means of efficiently documenting archaeological excavation and its associated finds, and create a suitable Web portal that provides enhanced tools for the user community. VERA aims to develop
- [The dangers of citing the CDLI](http://ux.opencontext.org/the-dangers-of-citing-the-cdli/) - Today, I'm happy to give you a "guest post" by Robert K. Englund, director of the excellent UCLA-Max Planck Institute for the History of Science Cuneiform Digital Library (CDLI) project which I reviewed earlier. In a highly interesting article by Azhideh Moqaddam describing the recent Jiroft discoveries ("Ancient geometry and "*Proto-Iranian" scripts, South Konar Sandal
- [Blind Report Writing Study Now Underway](http://ux.opencontext.org/blind-report-writing-study-now-underway/) - Next weekend, three of our project participants will come together to undertake the "Blind Data Analysis and Report Writing Study." Participants include practicing zooarchaeologists Justin Lev-Tov (Statistical Research, Inc.), Levent Atici (UNLV) and Sarah Whitcher Kansa (AAI). The aim of this study is to highlight the importance of publishing original datasets alongside syntheses, and most
- [User Experience Study, Plans for Year 2: Focus Groups and Technology Refinement](http://ux.opencontext.org/user-experience-study-plans-for-year-2-focus-groups-and-technology-refinement/) - In Year 1 of our study of user experience with archaeological data sharing, we brought together a group of representatives from various archaeological “communities.” Focusing on communities rather than on specific projects, we hoped to identify the vast diversity of needs and concerns related to sharing archaeological content online. Based on discussions and feedback in
- [CNI Fall Meeting: Frischer video online](http://ux.opencontext.org/cni-fall-meeting-frischer-video-online/) - I'd like to follow up on the CNI (Coalition for Networked Information) Fall Meeting post of December 9. Bernard Frischer (Director, Virtual World Heritage Laboratory, University of Virginia) gave a plenary presentation about "Beyond Illustration: New Dimensions of 3D Modeling of Cultural Heritage Sites and Monuments." It is now available online. More presentations from the meeting
- [Open access also means open for challenges](http://ux.opencontext.org/open-access-also-means-open-for-challenges/) - A recent report—thanks to Clifford Lynch via Melinda Burns—by Kathy English, The Longtail of News: To Unpublish or Not to Unpublish, draws attention to an old issue that is gaining new prominence: published content can be challenged but open-access and Google-indexed content brings even passages of material that was "obscure in practice" out into the
- [No, not Madonna the singer](http://ux.opencontext.org/no-not-madonna-the-singer/) - An article in the Art Newspaper caught my attention with a "case study" in user experience. A lack of familiarity with the cultural context necessitated a much more vigorous and extensive investigation of museum visitors' response to a planned exhibit than was assumed needed. Was this an exhibit, say, on the textiles of ancient Mali?
- [CNI Fall Meeting (Dec. 14-15)](http://ux.opencontext.org/cni-fall-meeting-dec-14-15/) - The Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) holds its Fall 2009 Membership Meeting this coming December 14-15, in Washington, DC. As usual, the papers presented are worth checking out and will be available eventually online in some form. J. Shulman et al.'s "ARTstor Shared Shelf Initiative" looks promising: "The project intends to make it practical for
- [Website Review: CDLI (Addendum)](http://ux.opencontext.org/website-review-cdli-addendum/) - A little over a month ago, I reviewed the Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative. I'd like to add that the CDLI is part of a larger digital project, The Cuneiform Digital Library. Free Online Resources About the Ancient Near East From the Dawn of Writing to the End of Cuneiform. "The CDL is a collaborative network of
- [The West Bank and East Jerusalem Searchable Map](http://ux.opencontext.org/the-west-bank-and-east-jerusalem-searchable-map/) - I'm happy to announce this year's Open Archaeology Prize winner. This prize is annually awarded by a jury (in name of the Alexandria Archive Institute) to the best open-access, open-licensed, digital contribution to Near Eastern archaeology by an ASOR (American Schools of Oriental Research) member. The winning project, The West Bank and East Jerusalem Searchable Map, "includes
- [The Virtual Museum of Iraq](http://ux.opencontext.org/the-virtual-museum-of-iraq/) - Jack Cheng recently wrote "Web Site Review: The Virtual Museum of Iraq" in the September 2009 CSA Newsletter. "Overall, I found the site both educational and entertaining, although I'm saving the fatal flaw for the end of this review." ... "Truly, I thought, the Virtual Museum of Iraq is a triumphant outreach program of the
- [Guide to researching audiences](http://ux.opencontext.org/guide-to-researching-audiences/) - The Strategic Content Alliance (SCA) is a British initiative aimed "to build a common information environment where users of publicly funded e-content can gain best value from the investment that has been made by reducing the barriers that currently inhibit access, use and re-use of online content." They do a lot of interesting research but
- [Website Review: Ashes2Art](http://ux.opencontext.org/website-review-ashes2art/) - Full Name: Ashes2Art. Virtual Reconstructions of Ancient Monuments URL: (1) http://www.coastal.edu/ashes2art/ and (2) http://www.digitaldelphi.org/ Content: early stages of a collection of 3D computer reconstructions of ancient Old World buildings and monuments (Greek, Roman, later also Mesopotamian, Egyptian, ...) made using open-source software; 10 buildings/monuments so far from 1 archaeological site (varying states of completion) www.coastal.edu/ashes2art
- [Website Review: CDLI](http://ux.opencontext.org/website-review-cdli/) - Full Name: Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative URL: http://cdli.ucla.edu and http://cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/ Content: cuneiform texts with line drawings, accurate photos, transliterations and/or translations entry page Authorship: "CDLI staff" (differs for different collections); primary-publication authors if applicable Host/Maintenance: UCLA, Los Angeles, and Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Berlin (Germany); UCLA; continuously updated (assumed but not explicit on website, e.g., the
- [Website Review: ORSA](http://ux.opencontext.org/website-review-orsa/) - Full Name: Open Research Scan Archive (formerly Penn Cranial CT Database) URL: http://plum.museum.upenn.edu/~orsa/ Content: High-resolution (sub-millimeter) CT scans of human and non-human crania from the Penn University Museum and other institutions How Many Items/Sites/Projects/Images: about 2900 entries in varying states of completion (October 2009) Principal People Involved: P. Thomas Schoenemann (James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA;
- [Grab a Bucket! It's Raining Data!](http://ux.opencontext.org/grab-a-bucket-its-raining-data/) - Do you prefer audio? or text? or pictures? No problem, the presentation I'd like to draw attention to has all three. Dorothea Salo (librarian, University of Wisconsin, Madison) spoke at the Canadian Access Conference in Sep. 30-Oct. 3, 2009, in Charlottetown, PEI, a.k.a. Access 2009. Her talk "Grab a Bucket! It's Raining Data!" touches upon many
- [Failure to communicate](http://ux.opencontext.org/failure-to-communicate/) - We all know how hard it is sometimes to communicate with colleagues and the public at large about our research... This, however, I hadn't considered before: http://www.flickr.com/photos/xortch/ / CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 No, that's not my leg... Have a nice weekend!
- [Website Review: NADL](http://ux.opencontext.org/website-review-nadl/) - Full Name: Nautical Archaeology Digital Library URL: http://nadl.tamu.edu Content: Digital library of artifacts from underwater shipwrecks excavated in Portugal and/or by the Nautical Archaeology Program (NAP) of Texas A&M University; in development; content to date: 12 ancient seafaring/shipbuilding treatises and a shipwreck timeline (475 entries) entry page Authorship: NAP; Richard Furuta (Center for the Study
- [UC Berkeley Collaborative Tools Strategy](http://ux.opencontext.org/uc-berkeley-collaborative-tools-strategy/) - In March, the Information Services and Technology group at the University of California, Berkeley produced a report, "UC Berkeley Collaborative Tools Strategy." It is available online together with many supporting materials. Or you can get everything all at once in pdf format. Worth a look!
- [Website Review: FAMSI](http://ux.opencontext.org/website-review-famsi/) - Full Name: Foundation for the Advancement of Mesoamerican Studies, Inc. URL: http://www.famsi.org Content: Research materials on the study of ancient Mesoamerica, previously published or not, supported financially or not ("The Foundation is pleased to post the research of scholarship not funded by FAMSI but that contributes to the advancement of Mesoamerican studies."); ranging from papers
- [Website Review: DAACS](http://ux.opencontext.org/website-review-daacs/) - Full Name: Digital Archaeological Archive of Comparative Slavery URL: http://www.daacs.org Content: 100,000s of artifacts as well as excavated contexts from about 20 archaeological sites in the Chesapeake region, South Carolina and Jamaica, dating back to the 17th-19th century Authorship: Department of Archaeology, Robert H. Smith International Center for Jefferson Studies, Charlottesville, VA Host/Maintenance: Robert H.
- [Website Review: ABMAP](http://ux.opencontext.org/website-review-abmap/) - Full Name: Animal Bone Metrical Archive Project URL: http://ads.ahds.ac.uk/catalogue/resources.html?abmap Content: measurements of 24,000+ bones of domestic animals from 100+ archaeological assemblages from excavations in southern Britain, from all periods from the Neolithic to the eighteenth century AD, with most from later periods Authorship: Centre for Applied Archaeological Analysis (formerly Centre for Human Ecology), University of
- [Website Review: PaleoDB](http://ux.opencontext.org/website-review-paleodb/) - Full Name: The Paleobiology Database URL: http://paleodb.org/cgi-bin/bridge.pl Content: Global, collection-based occurrence and taxonomic data for marine and terrestrial animals and plants of any geological age, as well as web-based software for statistical analysis of the data entry page Authorship: John Alroy, project coordinator (University of California, Santa Barbara); individual international contributors Host/Maintenance: National Center for
- [Website Review: NADB](http://ux.opencontext.org/website-review-nadb/) - Full Name: National Archeological Database URL: http://www.nps.gov/history/archeology/TOOLS/Nadb.htm (or http://www.cast.uark.edu/home/research/archaeology-and-historic-preservation/archaeological-informatics/national-archaeological-database.html) Content: searchable bibliographic inventory of 350,000+ "grey literature" reports on archeological investigation and planning in the US according to information provided by esp. State Historic Preservation Offices and federal agencies; county-level-averaged maps of site distribution, citation densities, etc.; searchable database of permits planned Authorship: National Park
- [Website Review: Çatalhöyük](http://ux.opencontext.org/website-review-catalhoyuk/) - Full Name: Çatalhöyük Databases On-Line URL: http://www.catalhoyuk.com/database/catal/ Content: collection of databases containing comprehensive field notes, data, artifacts, etc. from the ongoing excavations (1993-present) Authorship: Çatalhöyük Research Project, director Ian Hodder (Stanford University) Host/Maintenance: University of Cambridge, UK; University of Cambridge (UK) and Museum of London (UK); continuously updated Permanence/Archiving: no information (there is a mention
- [Archaeological Communities Online (Part 2)](http://ux.opencontext.org/archaeological-communities-online-part-2/) - In the 1st part of this post, I discussed the affiliation of archaeological communities by looking at their top domain names. I also gave some examples of different kinds of communities and related societies/associations. Today, I will share some thoughts about how these communities overlap, how they may be contained within larger organizations, etc. This
- [Sharing Archaeological Data: Part 3 – What is your Dream Tool?](http://ux.opencontext.org/sharing-archaeological-data-part-3-what-is-your-dream-tool/) - Last time I stated that it is probably impossible to build a “perfect resource” for data sharing, largely because user needs and the context in which they work are so diverse. In order to find out what archaeologists want to do with primary data and how they want to interact with it, we asked them
- [Website Review: Perseus 4.0](http://ux.opencontext.org/website-review-perseus-40/) - Full Name: Perseus Digital Library (Perseus Hopper) URL: http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/ Content: Originally a repository of Greco-Roman texts, art and archaeology but now as much other material, i.e., 19th-century American sources, issues of the Richmond Times Dispatch, Renaissance materials, even some Arabic and ancient Germanic texts; current research centers on personalization: organizing what you see to meet
- [Website Review: ADS](http://ux.opencontext.org/website-review-ads/) - Full Name: The Archaeology Data Service URL: http://ads.ahds.ac.uk/ Content: An integrated metadata search facility for information about archaeological interventions, sites and monuments in the UK; project archives with data available for download; special collections where discrete data sets can be queried using online tools; library resources such as digitized pamphlets, books and journals, bibliographic databases,
- [Short survey on Web tools](http://ux.opencontext.org/short-survey-on-web-tools/) - We're conducting a short survey about what types of web tools archaeologists currently use in their work (as well as tools they wish they could use!). If you have a spare 10 minutes or so, we would very much value your feedback about how you use web technologies in your work. The qualitative responses are
- [Archaeological Communities Online (Part 1)](http://ux.opencontext.org/archaeological-communities-online-part-1/) - Affiliation When you type in "archaeology" or "archeology" in Google search, you find a plethora of web sites and pages (25 million and counting) but who actually produces these? Which groups within the larger archaeological community produce online content? Do they overlap? Do they work together? Are they interlinked? Actually, a lot of these search
- [Sharing Archaeological Data:  Part 2 - Exploring the Needs](http://ux.opencontext.org/sharing-archaeological-data-part-2-exploring-the-needs/) - Last time, I introduced some of the background of the research project that is the subject of this blog. I pointed out the diversity of approaches to data sharing and asking whether such systems can meet the various needs of users across multiple disciplines. This question forms the basis of our 2-year study of user
- [Tool Space](http://ux.opencontext.org/tool-space/) - As we continue to digest the fruitful results of our kickoff workshop, one area of interest is which technologies our target audiences currently use and how that constructs their workflows. In one of our sessions we asked people to specifically enumerate the tools they use and so I thought it might be interesting to see
- [Sharing Archaeological Data: Part 1 – The Value of User Needs Studies](http://ux.opencontext.org/sharing-archaeological-data-part-1-the-value-of-user-needs-studies/) - Many systems for sharing archaeological content have come on line in recent years. These systems have made tremendous innovative strides in sharing content that would otherwise be difficult to access or use. Many are meeting specific needs on a project or sub-discipline level (for example, the extensive Çatalhöyük database, which provides a wealth of context-specific
- [Open Context Testing Site](http://ux.opencontext.org/open-context-testing-site/) - We're just begining the monumental task of organizing and digesting the massive amount of documentation that came from the first Workshop in this project. During the workshop, I did a very quick demo of the revisions taking place on Open Context. The site testing the new and improved Open Context is available at: http://testing.opencontext.org/sets/ This
- [User Experience Workshop, Jan 23-24, 2009](http://ux.opencontext.org/user-experience-workshop-jan-23-24-2009/) - Our project launches with a 2-day workshop entitled Exploring User Needs around Digital Heritage, which will take place January 23-24, 2009 at the School of Information at UC Berkeley. The workshop is aimed at developing specific strategies and methods to enhance access to and usability of primary archaeological research content. It brings together 12 Community
- [About the Project](http://ux.opencontext.org/about-this-blog/) - This blog provides a space for discussion of specific strategies and methods to enhance access to, and usability of, primary archaeological research content. It reports on the progress and findings of a new NEH-funded project led by the Alexandria Archive Institute and the ISD Program at the School of Information at UC Berkeley, exploring user

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- [open context](http://ux.opencontext.org/tag/open-context/)
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- [open government](http://ux.opencontext.org/tag/open-government/)
- [open science](http://ux.opencontext.org/tag/open-science/)
- [open source](http://ux.opencontext.org/tag/open-source/)
- [open zooarchaeology prize](http://ux.opencontext.org/tag/open-zooarchaeology-prize/)
- [paleobiology](http://ux.opencontext.org/tag/paleobiology/)
- [Pelagios](http://ux.opencontext.org/tag/pelagios/)
- [people](http://ux.opencontext.org/tag/people/)
- [petroglyph](http://ux.opencontext.org/tag/petroglyph/)
- [policy](http://ux.opencontext.org/tag/policy/)
- [poster](http://ux.opencontext.org/tag/poster/)
- [pottery](http://ux.opencontext.org/tag/pottery/)
- [Presentations](http://ux.opencontext.org/tag/presentations/)
- [preservation](http://ux.opencontext.org/tag/preservation/)
- [primary content](http://ux.opencontext.org/tag/primary-content/)
- [public information](http://ux.opencontext.org/tag/public-information/)
- [publication](http://ux.opencontext.org/tag/publication/)
- [Pylos](http://ux.opencontext.org/tag/pylos/)
- [Python](http://ux.opencontext.org/tag/python/)
- [report writing](http://ux.opencontext.org/tag/report-writing/)
- [repository](http://ux.opencontext.org/tag/repository/)
- [Reproducibility](http://ux.opencontext.org/tag/reproducibility/)
- [REST](http://ux.opencontext.org/tag/rest/)
- [scan](http://ux.opencontext.org/tag/scan/)
- [Scholarly Communications](http://ux.opencontext.org/tag/scholarly-communications/)
- [site files](http://ux.opencontext.org/tag/site-files/)
- [site review](http://ux.opencontext.org/tag/site-review/)
- [slavery](http://ux.opencontext.org/tag/slavery/)
- [survey](http://ux.opencontext.org/tag/survey/)
- [syndication](http://ux.opencontext.org/tag/syndication/)
- [testing](http://ux.opencontext.org/tag/testing/)
- [the Americas](http://ux.opencontext.org/tag/the-americas/)
- [toponyms](http://ux.opencontext.org/tag/toponyms/)
- [Turkey](http://ux.opencontext.org/tag/turkey/)
- [UK](http://ux.opencontext.org/tag/uk/)
- [Upgrade](http://ux.opencontext.org/tag/upgrade/)
- [URL rot](http://ux.opencontext.org/tag/url-rot/)
- [user communities](http://ux.opencontext.org/tag/user-communities/)
- [user experience](http://ux.opencontext.org/tag/user-experience/)
- [user needs](http://ux.opencontext.org/tag/user-needs/)
- [versioning](http://ux.opencontext.org/tag/versioning/)
- [Web 2.0](http://ux.opencontext.org/tag/web-2-0/)
- [web tools](http://ux.opencontext.org/tag/web-tools/)
- [work flow](http://ux.opencontext.org/tag/work-flow/)
- [working groups](http://ux.opencontext.org/tag/working-groups/)
- [workshop](http://ux.opencontext.org/tag/workshop/)
- [zooarchaeology](http://ux.opencontext.org/tag/zooarchaeology/)