Curious how we picked the books for Of Mycenaean Men? In this article, we explain the development of that open educational resource (OER) and how we found the books for it. We hope learning about our process helps folks who like popular science and nonfiction find more archaeological data literacy related works for themselves.
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How to find awesome archaeological data literacy related comics
Have you ever wanted to use comics to learn about archaeology but weren’t sure how? Here, we explain where to start by describing the development of Tome Reader, an open educational resource (OER) that uses comics to cultivate archaeological data literacy.
Open Context in 2025 and the Evolving AI Ecosystem
Open Context has grown into one of the world’s largest open access databases of archaeological data. It now houses nearly 2.4 million records from over 200 data publications, including 215,000 images, maps, documents, 3D models, and GIS layers. This growth has required us to make important performance improvements so that the user interface has acceptable […]
Tips on using images from Wikimedia Commons
Welcome to another Sourcing Series segment presented by the Data Literacy Program (DLP) of the Alexandria Archive Institute. In this how-to article, we discuss how we’ve used Wikimedia Commons as a source for cool and relevant images for our Digital Data Stories. This is a follow-up article to our introduction to online sources of reusable […]
How to use the Digital Collections of the NYPL
Welcome to another Sourcing Series segment presented by the Data Literacy Program (DLP) of the Alexandria Archive Institute. In this how-to article, we discuss how we’ve used the New York Public Library’s Digital Collections as a source for images to add to our Digital Data Stories and other materials. This is another follow-up article to […]
Handy image subscription services for archaeology
Welcome to another Sourcing Series segment presented by the Data Literacy Program (DLP) of the Alexandria Archive Institute. In this article, we introduce a couple of subscription-based sources for (re)usable images. This is a follow-up to our introduction to online sources for reusable images.
