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. […]
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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. […]
IMLS Grant Supports FAIR+CARE Cultural Heritage Network
This week, the AAI/Open Context and colleagues are launching a new project with funding from the Institute of Museum and Library Services’ (IMLS) National Leadership Grants for Libraries program. Advancing FAIR+CARE Practices in Cultural Heritage is a 3-year project co-directed by Sarah Whitcher Kansa (AAI/Open Context), Neha Gupta (University of British Columbia), Desireé Martinez (Cogstone Resource Management), […]
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 […]
