The Institute of Museum and Library Services has awarded the AAI a National Leadership Grant for a project that will expand the Digital Index of North American Archaeology (DINAA). Under the direction of Eric Kansa, Program Director for Open Context, the AAI joins many partners collaborating on the development of DINAA, a project originally launched […]
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Happy New Year!
We are grateful for the opportunity to preserve and share the past, working with our colleagues, collaborators, data authors, and supporters around the world. Happy New Year!
AAI Receives NEH Grant to Bridge Data Creation and Reuse
“We need the Humanities, now more than ever, because they give us access to the most fundamental and consequential dimensions and forces of our experience.” – William D. Adams, NEH Chairman Today, the National Endowment for the Humanities announced $21.8 million in funding for 295 humanities projects, including a Research and Development grant for a […]
Open Context on the DAI Cloud
We are very pleased to announce a new collaboration between the German Archaeological Institute (DAI) and Open Context. The DAI, one of the world’s largest institutional sponsors of archaeological research, runs a vast array of scientific and cultural heritage preservation programs worldwide. To support these activities, the DAI has recently built a powerful cloud computing […]
Fall 2014 News and Events
The AAI is pleased to announce two new grant-funded projects. With support from Harvard’s Center for Hellenic Studies and the German Archaeological Institute (DAI), Open Context’s program director Eric Kansa will collaborate with DAI colleagues to develop and promote specific data sharing standards that will facilitate data interoperability in Classical archaeology. The standards will be […]
“Best Paper” Prize at 2014 International Digital Curation Conference
A collaborative research paper on data publishing won the “Best Paper” prize at the 2014 International Digital Curation Conference in San Francisco last week. Eric Kansa presented the paper Publishing and Pushing: Mixing Models for Communicating Research Data in Archaeology, which he co-authored with colleagues Benjamin Arbuckle and Sarah Whitcher Kansa. The three collaborated with […]
