The AAI’s professional development team had a busy year devoted to two networking and data literacy programs: Digging Up Data and NADAC. Digging Up Data, an early career scholar mentorship program run in collaboration with the American Society of Overseas Research (ASOR), brought together 11 graduate students and postdoctoral researchers working on public-facing digital heritage […]
Lights, Camera, Action: The Highlight Reel of NADAC Fall 2023
Before we start forgetting our auld acquaintances and gearing up for the new year, we’d love to take a chance to shine some lights (camera! action!) on the lessons we learned this past fall. The Fall 2023 NADAC-NEH Institute curriculum consisted of three workshops that focused on Data for Professional Communication. Open Context team members […]
LOD, MANTO, and the Power of Connections
This is the first guest post in our blog series highlighting the work of Scholars participating in Networking Archaeological Data and Communities: An NEH Institute for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities (NADAC). Below, NADAC Scholar Greta Hawes shares the journey of how her project, MANTO, transformed from idea to reality. Keep an eye on […]
Icing on the Cake: Lessons from the 2023 NADAC Summer Workshop
This summer, the NADAC team welcomed Scholars to the project’s first in-person workshop, held July 24-28 at the Badè Museum of Archaeology on the campus of Pacific School of Religion in Berkeley, CA. Anticipation was high after four months of Zoom workshops learning data management strategies, sharing resources, and drafting Data Management Plans (DMPs) remotely. […]
There and Back Again
April’s Networking Archaeological Data and Communities (NADAC) workshop, the fourth such session of spring 2023, brought to a close the NADAC Institute’s Data Management Lifecycle series. The Data Management Lifecycle is the first of four main segments of the NADAC Institute, which runs through Fall 2024. It has been an exciting start to the program’s […]
How Do You Solve A Problem Like Old Data?
This past Saturday, March 18th, Networking Archaeological Data and Communities (NADAC), our Institute for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), hosted its third workshop in its Data Management Lifecycle series. Led by faculty Anne Chen and Leigh Anne Lieberman, this month’s workshop addressed the myriad challenges […]
