Open Context’s 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 […] Read MoreArchaeology 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 […] Read MoreBlog Restoration in Progress!
We’re recovering this blog after a major server hardware failure. We’ll restore old content soon! Read MorePublishing 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 […] Read MoreDigital 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, […] Read MoreAMNH 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 […] Read MoreTravelers 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, […] Read MoreOnline 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 […] Read More