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 […] Read MoreEthics, 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 MoreNew 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 […] Read MoreNew 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 MoreAAI/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. Read MoreAAI 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 […] Read MoreAddressing “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 […] Read MoreHow 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