February, 2017 - Heritage Bytes

Project Spotlight: Oracle Bones in East Asia

February 28, 2017 eric@opencontext.org

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 […] Read More

New Digital Edition of Pyla-Koutsopetria 1 Links to Data Published in Open Context

February 15, 2017 eric@opencontext.org

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. […] Read More

Love Your Data Week: Data Rescue

February 13, 2017 eric@opencontext.org

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 […] Read More