• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Skip to footer

The Alexandria Archive Institute

OPENING THE PAST, INSPIRING THE FUTURE

  • Home
  • About
    • History
    • Mission
    • People
    • Governance
    • What We Do
      • Open Context
      • Technology Innovation
      • Research
      • Advocacy & Leadership
      • Education & Training
  • Impacts
    • Publications
  • News
  • Community
  • Ongoing Projects
    • Data Literacy Program
    • Digging Digital Museum Collections
  • Resources
  • Donate Now!

News

Shedding Light on Endangered Data

April 19, 2017 by Sarah Kansa

This is a cross-posting from an April 17, 2017 post on Heritage Bytes, the Open Context blog: For the week of April 17-21, we’re joining a large community-wide effort to raise greater awareness of “endangered data”. In light of all of the other crises in the world, highlighting endangered data may seem silly. After all, […]

Share this:

  • Twitter
  • Facebook
  • LinkedIn

Conference: Critical Perspectives on the Practice of Digital Archaeology

January 23, 2017 by Sarah Kansa

Early next month, the AAI will participate in a conference at Harvard University on Critical Perspectives on the Practice of Digital Archaeology. Hosted by Harvard University’s Standing Committee on Archaeology, the February 3-4 event will cover topics related to digital technologies and how they are transforming archaeological practice. Conference co-organizers Eric Kansa (Program Director for […]

Share this:

  • Twitter
  • Facebook
  • LinkedIn

2016 Perspectives: The Necessity of the Humanities

December 30, 2016 by Sarah Kansa

“…though the past never really repeats itself, it offers lessons about the risks and opportunities of periods of fundamental change.” The end of the year invites reflection about changes and prospects for the future. Obviously, 2016 brought considerable turmoil and uncertainty to key institutions. The past year highlighted issues of “fake-news” and disinformation, as well […]

Share this:

  • Twitter
  • Facebook
  • LinkedIn

New Award Supporting AAI Research Fellow

December 15, 2016 by Sarah Kansa

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 […]

Share this:

  • Twitter
  • Facebook
  • LinkedIn

Fall 2016 Roundup

December 12, 2016 by Sarah Kansa

This past summer, we kicked off a 3-year project aimed at improving the flow of information from the moment of discovery through to publication and beyond. This project, funded by a grant from the NEH, takes a unique approach of exploring the data lifecycle through a series of interviews with data creators and reusers, in […]

Share this:

  • Twitter
  • Facebook
  • LinkedIn

AAI Receives Grant to Expand a Gazetteer of North American Archaeology

April 12, 2016 by Sarah Kansa

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 […]

Share this:

  • Twitter
  • Facebook
  • LinkedIn
  • Go to page 1
  • Go to page 2
  • Go to page 3
  • Go to page 4
  • Go to page 5
  • Go to page 6

Primary Sidebar

YOUR CONTRIBUTION TO ARCHAEOLOGY

Help us open the past to new discoveries! Donate Today!
  • Home
  • About
    • History
    • Mission
    • People
    • Governance
    • What We Do
      • Open Context
      • Technology Innovation
      • Research
      • Advocacy & Leadership
      • Education & Training
  • Impacts
    • Publications
  • News
  • Community
  • Ongoing Projects
    • Data Literacy Program
    • Digging Digital Museum Collections
  • Resources

Footer

Contact

contact@alexandriaarchive.org
125 El Verano Way
San Francisco, CA 94127
415-425-7380

Visit

Support AAI

Donate