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 […] Read More

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 […] Read More

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 […] Read More

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 […] Read More

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 […] Read More