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What are NaNoWriMo, AcWriMo, and ArchWriMo?

October 27, 2022 by Paulina Przystupa

Similar to other thematic months, like National Arts & Humanities Month, or artistic creative endeavors, such as the 100 Days project, NaNoWriMo is a limited-duration writing project. For archaeologists, we have ArchWriMo and this year the AAI will be posting inspirational prompts in celebration!

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The image is on a dark blue background. in the upper left is a a book that looks like a neural network with many connecting lines and nodes; with a rainbow coloring in the lines and a dark blue to black fade in the background. This is the AAI Reads Logo. Next to htat in light blue reads AAI reads in capital letters. Below that in a darker blue or indigo reads booktitle in capital letters and below that in similar colors is Author. Below that are two images of people with long hair in different settings. on the left under the name Paulina is a mixed race person with long dark hair and bear shoulders with a tank top that has a piece of blue and white visible they sit in frotn of wood paneling. The person on the right is in front of a red office background and is white with red hair and in a green top.

AAI Reads – Data Feminism

June 23, 2022 by Paulina Przystupa

Welcome to AAI Reads!. This week, the book that we’re highlighting is Data Feminism. Written by Catherine D’Ignazio and Lauren F. Klein in 2020, it’s a great introduction to how we can incorporate feminist practices into data literacy.

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Artifacts, Belongings, and Finds Oh my!

June 16, 2022 by Paulina Przystupa

Artifacts, belongings, contrivances, debris, effects, finds, garbage, habiliments, implements, junk, kit, luggage, materiel, necessities, objects, possessions, quarries, relics, stuff, things, utensils, vestiges, whatchamacallits, xeniums, you-name-its, and, sometimes, zilch. What do archaeologists even look at?

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Whose Heritage? Using material culture to celebrate AANHPI heritage month

May 13, 2022 by Paulina Przystupa

In celebration of Asian and Pacific American (AAPI) Heritage month (AAPIHM) or Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander (AANHPI) Heritage Month (AANHPIHM), I’ll be using one of Open Context’s projects to consider the complexity of celebrating this month. Specifically, I’ll use data from the Asian stoneware jars project, contributed by Dr. Peter Grave.

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The image is on a dark blue background. in the upper left is a a book that looks like a neural network with many connecting lines and nodes; with a rainbow coloring in the lines and a dark blue to black fade in the background. This is the AAI Reads Logo. Next to htat in light blue reads AAI reads in capital letters. Below that in a darker blue or indigo reads booktitle in capital letters and below that in similar colors is Author. Below that are two images of people with long hair in different settings. on the left under the name Paulina is a mixed race person with long dark hair and bear shoulders with a tank top that has a piece of blue and white visible they sit in frotn of wood paneling. The person on the right is in front of a red office background and is white with red hair and in a green top.

AAI Reads – Weapons of Math Destruction

April 28, 2022 by Paulina Przystupa

Welcome to our first The Alexandria Archives Reads! (AAI Reads!). The book that we’re highlighting is Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality And Threatens Democracy. Written by Cathy O’Neil in 2016, it’s a great introduction to the way that algorithms impact humanity. Specifically, it redefines the “m” in WMD from “mass” to […]

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Making CAREfully FAIR Archaeological Data

April 18, 2022 by Sarah Kansa

Last month, Open Context participated in a forum at the annual Society for American Archaeology conference in Chicago. The forum was called “Completing the data lifecycle: Using DINAA’s, Open Context’s, and tDAR’s online data management tools” but the real focus of the session turned out to be FAIR and CARE data practices. Forum participants, which […]

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