As we enter our 13th year of publishing archaeological data on the web, we want to thank you all for your participation and support. Whether you are the author of a data set published in Open Context, an editorial board member, a colleague engaged in the world of open data, or a supporter of data […]
AAI Receives Infrastructure and Capacity-Building Challenge Grant
Today, the National Endowment for the Humanities announced $43.1 million in funding for 218 humanities projects, including an Infrastructure and Capacity Building Challenge Grant for the AAI. The award to the AAI will support the expansion of archaeological data publishing and archiving services with Open Context, development of a data literacy program for the broader public, and […]
New AAI Project Publications Address Digital Data Reuse in Archaeology
(Note: Cross-posted at Heritage Bytes) The latest issue of Advances in Archaeological Practice includes a special section with five papers on the theme of “Digital Data Reuse in Archaeology.” These are some of the first studies to move beyond data preservation to explore what people are actually doing with shared archaeological data. Here is a […]
Networking Government Data to Navigate an Uncertain Future for the Past
A paper published today in the journal Antiquity highlights the value of protecting public records of scientific research. The paper, “Networking government data to navigate an uncertain future for the past”, discusses how to incorporate government records into broader civil society networks and ensure their long term preservation and widespread use, drawing on the example […]
News & Highlights from 2017
Open Context Supports New Research into Impacts of Climate Change on US Archaeological Sites
Today, the open access journal PLOS ONE published “Sea-level rise and archaeological site destruction: An example from the southeastern United States using DINAA (Digital Index of North American Archaeology)” (Anderson et al. 2017), a peer-reviewed article that projects how climate change driven sea-level rise will endanger over 13,000 recorded archaeological sites on the eastern seaboard […]
