Editorial Workflow - Heritage Bytes

Addressing “micro-challenges” of archaeological data creation and reuse

May 15, 2020 eric@opencontext.org

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 More

Zooarchaeology of Neolithic Anatolia: Research Outcomes from Large-Scale Data Integration with Open Context

June 16, 2014 eric@opencontext.org

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 […] Read More

Lessons in Data Reuse, Integration, and Publication

May 2, 2013 eric@opencontext.org

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 […] Read More

Decoding Data- A View from the Trenches

February 26, 2013 eric@opencontext.org

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 […] Read More