The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded the Alexandria Archive Institute a grant for the project Open Context: Sustaining a Collaborative Data Infrastructure for Archaeology. The award from the NSF’s Archaeometry competition provides $270,834 over five years to develop and expand the critical technological infrastructure and editorial processes that support Open Context’s data publishing services. […]
Awards
“Digging Up Data” Team Wins ASOR’s 2023 Membership Service Award
We are proud to announce that at the 2023 American Society of Overseas Research (ASOR) conference in Chicago in November, AAI’s Leigh Anne Lieberman and Melissa Cradic, together with colleague Tiffany Earley-Spadoni, received an award for their service to ASOR’s membership, and early career researchers in particular, in designing and leading the Digging Up Data […]
AAI/OC Receives NSF Grant for Collaborative Research Coordination Network
We are thrilled to announce Disciplinary Improvements for Past Global Change Research: Connecting Data Systems and Practitioners, a National Science Foundation (NSF) Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable Open Science Research Coordination Network (FAIROS RCN) funded initiative to advance ethical scientific practices in the use of paleoecological, contemporary ecological, paleoclimatic, and archaeological data. Our overarching aim is […]
AAI/OC Receives NEH Grant to lead an Institute for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities
The National Endowment for the Humanities has approved an award of $240,312 in support of The Alexandria Archive Institute/Open Context’s (AAI/OC) Institute for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities, entitled Networking Archaeological Data and Communities. This project builds on our long-term efforts to make data publishing more inclusive and more consistent with professional standards of […]
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 Award Supporting AAI Research Fellow
We are happy to announce that Dr. Federico Buccellati will join the AAI in 2017 as a Research Fellow, thanks to the generous support of his project by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. In an announcement from the NEH this week, Buccellati is named as one of […]
