Announcing the Winner of the OpenContext & Carleton Prize for Archaeological Data Visualization

We are pleased to announce that the 1st OpenContext & Carleton University Data Visualization Prize has been awarded to the ‘Poggio Civitate VR Data Viewer’, created by the team led by Russell Alleen-Willems. The team hacked this data viewer together over a weekend as a proof-of-concept. In the typical spirit of the digital humanities and […] Read More

Open Context Data in GitHub

We’ve recently completed exporting the majority of the data from Open Context to GitHub. For most data in Open Context, we link directly into the GitHub repository where the version history of the XML representation can be seen. Here’s an example: A coin from Domuztepe (the GitHub link follows the thumbnails). GitHub is mainly a […] Read More

Open Access Week Presentation

A big thanks to the University of Arizona Libraries for their kind invitation to speak at their Open Access Week events. I joined Victoria Stodden who talked about reproducibility of research and Steve Koch who talked about integrating open science in instruction and his research activities (including a great example of collaboration mediated by YouTube, […] Read More