Welcome to another Sourcing Series segment presented by the Data Literacy Program (DLP) of the Alexandria Archive Institute. In this article, we introduce some sources for (re)usable images based on our experiences finding visuals to use in our Digital Data Stories.
Open Educational Resources
How to Make Your Own (Archaeological) Book Club
Welcome to the Alexandria Archive Institute and Open Context‘s Data Story Shorts! Here in How to Make Your Own (Archaeological) Book Club we explain how we selected and created our Aggregative Series book club Data Stories. Reading and discussion—which we consider ways to read, work with, and communicate data—are essential for all archaeology learners.
Introducing Data Story Shorts
We’re proud to introduce a new series of open educational resources (OERs) from the Data Literacy Program (DLP) of the Alexandria Archive Institute (AAI). These are our Data Story Shorts. The Shorts are smaller, bite-sized Data Stories about specific topics, skills, or data. In this article, we’ll explain some of the differences between our Shorts […]
Finding fun archaeology-related fiction
A Pun Goes Here: The AAI Reads Fiction Book Club is a great guide for running your own archaeology-fiction related book club. However, you might want to know how we found the books for that Data Story. Or, you might want help finding new reads yourself. In this article, we’ll tell you how we got […]
Archaeological Data Literacy and Maps
Recently, the Data Literacy Program’s (DLP’s) Paulina Przystupa gave a guest lecture on historical maps. While the DLP talks a lot about archaeological data, we often default to data tables as their main format. We allude to other kinds of structured data (such as sentences and citations) but an important type of structured data that […]
Introduction to Citation and Attribution
In this Sourcing Series article, we introduce the concepts of citation and attribution. Citation and attribution are important ways that we connect ideas, media, and knowledge to their originators or owners. Or at least to the sources that we found them from.
