Publishing Kenan Tepe with Open Context
We’re very pleased to announce the publication of a significant portion of the Kenan Tepe excavations. Excavations at Kenan Tepe, directed by Bradley Parker (University of Utah) and co-directed by Lynn Swartz Dodd (University of Southern California), represent part of the investigations of the Upper Tigris Archaeological Research Project (UTARP). UTARP organized major excavation and survey programs […] Read MoreOpen 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 MoreWorkshop on data publishing for Near Eastern archaeologists
“Publishing Archaeological Data from the Field to the Web” Thursday November 18 at 2pm, Sheraton Atlanta Open to all ASOR meeting attendees At the upcoming 2010 American Schools of Oriental Research (ASOR) meeting in Atlanta, the creators of Open Context are leading a workshop focused on effective techniques for Near Eastern archaeologists to publish their […] Read MoreNSF Links to Open Context for Data Sharing
The National Science Foundation lists Open Context as one option for grant-seekers to archive archaeological research data. See here for an example. This demonstrates how data sharing is becoming an expected outcome of the research process. This is something that many other fields have been practicing for a few years now, but archaeology and the […] Read More