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This image accompanies the Data Story A Pun Goes Here: The AAI Reads Fiction Book Club. It includes the "A Digital Data Story" on the side bar in whit eon a black background. The title in light blue above the main imge and then the combind logo for Open Context and the Alexandria Archive Institute. The main image is drawing of a book case in dark blue with a little hat in the uper right side

Can you tell an archaeologist wrote this? An AAI Reads Video Theme

May 2, 2024 by Paulina Przystupa

Do you love reading? Do you love book clubs or recommendation lists? Do you have an interest in archaeology? If you said “yes” to at least one of these questions, we’d love for you to check out our book blurb videos, which are part of our Data Story, A Pun Goes Here: The AAI Reads […]

On the right is blue text on a white background listing: The Tutorial Series; The Creative Series; The Dialogues Series; The Aggregative Series; The Solo Series; The Interactive Series(which is in a light blue rounded box); The Publication Series with each series on its own row; to the left is a grey box with text primarily in black. The text reads “Reading data involves understanding what data is, and what aspects of the world it represents. Working with data involves acquiring, cleaning, and managing it. Analyzing data involves filtering, sorting, aggregating, comparing, and performing other such analytic operations on it. Arguing with data involves using data to support a larger narrative intended to communicate a message to a particular audience. Bhargava, Rahul, et al. “Data murals: Using the arts to build data literacy.” The Journal of Community Informatics 12.3 (2016). Throughout this document, data stories are aligned to show how they can be used to reinforce Reading, Working, Analyzing, Arguing, and communciating with data. These make up the key components of archaeological data literacy for the program and these resource aim to reinforce” Reading is in dark blue matching a circular book spine icon to the left of the text that is in white lines on the blue background; Working is in light blue matching a tabbed planner-style circular icon in white lines on the same light blue; Analyzing is in lavender corresponding to a circular computer icon in white lines on the same lavender; Arguing is in pink corresponding to a circular text books icon in white lines; and Commucicating is in black corressponding to a circular laptop icon with waves going out in white lines

Intersecting Interactive Ideas for Data Literacy

February 15, 2024 by Paulina Przystupa

For this Digital Data Stories (DDS) Series on Series entry, we’re exploring our Interactive Series. Play is an integral part of human creativity, and interacting with others during play is an important way that we learn. Beyond that, places, materials, buildings, people, and belongings start to have meaning to us through interaction. With that in […]

Table of Contents in large purple letters is in the upper left, the next line down reads How to Use this in blue with the number 3 next to in indicating the page to find that information; Document Project Aims, Definitions, and Terms is on the next line down with the number 4 next to it for that page; the next line has Tutorial Series with the number 5 next new it; the next line has Cow-culating Your Data with Spreadsheets and R in light blue with 6 next to it; the next line has Gabbing about Gabii: Going from Notes to Data to Narrative in light blue on the next line with the number 7 by it; the next line has Aggregativer series with a ; The Creative Series in larger letters again with an 8 by it; the next three lines in light blue read Of Mycenaen Men: Public Archaeology Book club on page 9. Next is A Pun Goes here: A Fiction Book Club on Pge 10. Next is Tome Reader: A Comic Book club on page 11. After that is, in a larger font, Creative series. The Next line reads "It's all in the wrist (bones): archaeological data as artistic inspiration on page 13. The last line reading It’s All in the Wrist (Bones): Archaeological Data as Artistic Inspiration in light blue on page 14

Winter 2024 Table of Contents

January 25, 2024 by Paulina Przystupa

We’re happy to announce the Data Literacy Program’s (DLP’s) Winter 2024 Table of Contents! AKA Version 2.0! Just like its predecessor, it provides a preview of our published and planned Data Stories to help you pick Data Stories that fit your needs.

On a dark blue banner in white reads "A Digital Data Story". Perpendicular to that in light blue across the top reads "Stop and Smell…the Material Culture?: An Object-Oriented Observation Guide". Below that is the Open Context logo of a blue rhombus with long edge oriented up and down on the left and light blue rhombus in the same orientation to form a book next the the words "Open context". This is above words that say "The Alexandria Archive Institute". In the center is one grey trowel with flowers growing or etched onto it in Dark blue. This is meant to illustrate that this data story focuses on taking the time to mindfully observe a single belonging.

Stop and Smell the…Material Culture?: An Object-Oriented Observation Guide

November 9, 2023 by Paulina Przystupa

This exercise is best suited to those with an interest in belonging or material culture analysis, archaeological data collection, or using mindful observation skills for archaeology and daily life. Users should have a basic understanding of observation and recording methods, such as handwritten, audio, or video recording, but little previous experience with archaeology or data […]

On a dark blue banner in white reads "A Digital Data Story". Perpendicular to that in light blue across the top reads "The Road Most Traveled: An Archaeological Survey Guide". Below that is the Open Context logo of a blue rhombus with long edge oriented up and down on the left and light blue rhombus in the same orientation to form a door next to the words "Open Context". This is above words that say "The Alexandria Archive Institute". In the center is a series of trowels in dark blue, pink, light blue, and purple that are connected via swirling dashed lines to location tear drops farther down the page. This is meant to illustrate that this data story focuses on survey.

The Road Most Traveled: An Archaeological Survey Guide

November 2, 2023 by Paulina Przystupa

This exercise is best suited to those with an interest in archaeological survey, archaeological data collection, or using mindful observation skills for archaeology and daily life. Users should have a basic understanding of observation and recording methods, such as handwritten, audio, or video recording, but previous experience with archaeology or data creation is not required.

The heading image for "It’s All in the Wrist (Bones): Archaeological Data as Artistic Inspiration". It includes the title in light blue across the top, the words "A Digital Data Story" in white on a dark blue background on the left edge. The center area has five sticky notes with a pushpin in them information about the Data Story. The first light blue outlined sticky note on the upper left reads "How to get started using data creatively", next to a it an indigo one reads "A 31-Day calendar of writing prompts". The one on the farthest right is also in light blue and reads "searching open context for project data". The bottom line has another indigo outlined one that reads "narrative examples from open data" next to a pink outlined one that reads "how to take part in collaborative creativity projects". These sit on a white background and have the Open Context logo (two rhombii on their sides to form a door opening with one dark blue side--left--and one light blue side--right) Underneath that reads "The Alexandria Archive Institute". These sit together underneath the Digital Data Story' title.

It’s All in the Wrist (Bones): Archaeological Data as Artistic Inspiration

July 20, 2023 by Paulina Przystupa

This exercise is best suited to those with an interest in public archaeology, the dynamics of ritual behavior, or the archaeology of central China. Users should have a basic understanding of archaeological data types, but little previous experience with archaeology is required.

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