Recently, the National Science Foundation (NSF) together with the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) issued a Request for Information to inform the development of federal government infrastructure to support research with AI (see here). What does this request have to do with archaeology in general, and AAI/Open Context programs in particular? For the […]
Improving Ways Open Context Publishes Archaeological Data
Our last blog post about Open Context discussed how we were rebuilding many aspects of how we organized the data we publish. This post gets into some of the details. For background, Open Context is a bit different from many research data repositories like the Archaeology Data Service or tDAR. Open Context’s core purpose is […]
Rebuilding Open Context – Again!
Open Context is undergoing its fourth major rebuild. Why on earth would we do this? This post explores (hopefully without too much jargon or technobabble) why rebuilds are important and what the 2021 rebuild involves. Why are rebuilds (“refactoring”) needed? Since its launch in 2006, Open Context has seen four major waves of development. These […]
