This Interactive Series Digital Data Story is now published
This exercise is best suited to those with an interest in the archaeology of Spanish Florida; Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable (FAIR) data; or using interactive fiction for data-driven education. Users should know how to use the internet, navigate a website, and interact with a PDF or online dynamic digital document but previous experience with archaeology or any kind of data is not required.
This page provides access to the resource in two ways. The first is through a playable online game and a series of digital documents that represent the complete Digital Data Story. These include the:
The game FAIR Finds, which is a piece of interactive fiction, is a Digital Data Story all on its own. The optional game walkthrough explains how to play. The how-to guide explains how we created the FAIR Finds game and how to make one’s own piece of data-inspired interactive fiction. The referencing and teaching resources acts as a reference guide for important vocabulary and major concepts in the game to help users learn more about the content and better incorporate the Digital Data Story into their pedagogy. A single-PDF version of record for the combined textual materials is available here.
These materials are also available through the Digital Data Stories code repository on Codeberg. They include the underlying HTML for the game FAIR Finds, which can be reused in Twine, as well as the text and images for the Teaching Guide, walkthrough, How-To Guide, and Referencing and Teaching Resource as markdown files. These code files represent the source code, text, and images within the game and provide another way to adapt the text and images within the PDF and digital documents by forking and altering the code from Codeberg repository for use in different contexts. This code represents our commitment to open science and transparency in our process.
These materials, either through the game, single-PDF publication of record, dynamic digital documents, or the code, are designed to be used synergistically. However, any piece of this Digital Data Story may be used separately or re-ordered according to the requirements of the individual or for specific educational goals. As of December 2025, FAIR Finds and its resources are available free to use under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license unless otherwise specified for specific images. In addition, this Digital Data Story references It’s All in the Wrist (Bones): Archaeological Data as Artistic Inspiration (CC BY-SA), Of Mycenaean Men – The Open Context Search Tutorial (CC BY), and 30 Days to An Article: Archaeological Inspiration For Your Writing (CC BY).
Thank you so much for using our educational resources! Although this Digital Data Story is published, if you or your participants have the time, please consider contributing an open peer review for our ongoing review process. Such updates will be noted below and first available through the digital documents and Codeberg repository prior to PDF updating.
To attribute this Digital Data Story or any of its parts, please use our suggested citation:
Meghan Dennis and Paulina F. Przystupa, 2024, “FAIR Finds: Using Twine In Archaeological Education”, Data Stories Program, Alexandria Archive Institute / Open Context, Published Online, DOI: https://doi.org/10.6078/M7GF0RNT
Preprint page published: April 2024
Page updated: May 2024 – Changed “PDF updating” to “digital document updating”. 30 October 2024 – This Digital Data Story completed peer review in 2024 and, after revision, is now published. Major updates included the addition of the expanded reference and teaching guide, generalization of language to apply to disciplines beyond archaeology, reformatting the new text, and updated or additional images in. There was also a textual revision to this page in the body and credits sections. 5 November 2024 – Added suggested citation. December 2025 – The license for this Digital Data Story, as per Creative Commons guidelines, was updated to a more open license (CC BY) with the consent of all authors on the work. Any images within the resource that require more restrictive licensing listed as licensed separately from the greater resource. Minor updates include new images credits and other changes such as the single-PDF DOI now routing to Version 2.1. Version 2.0 available at https://zenodo.org/records/14595825 for additional comparison. This page updated August 2026 to describe these changes, with the page getting some minor textual edits and an update to the heading image to match the new version.
Image credit: “FAIR Finds Header 2025” by Paulina F. Przystupa from the Data Literacy Program (DLP) / CC BY includes a cropped version of “FairFinds_FirstPage_2025” by L. Meghan Dennis and Paulina F. Przystupa from the Data Literacy Program (DLP) / CC BY, which includes adaptations of “folder”, “floppy”, and “screen” by Adrien Coquet from the Noun Project (https://thenounproject.com/icon/1637828/, https://thenounproject.com/icon/2644080/, and https://thenounproject.com/icon/screen-2430621/) under a royalty free license and “DLP Sticky Note” by L. Meghan Dennis from the DLP with attribution information forthcoming.
