Did you miss us at the 2025 Society for American Archaeology meeting (SAAs) in Denver? No worries! In this article, we recap all the cool things that the Alexandria Archive Institute (AAI), Open Context, and the Digital Index of North American Archaeology (DINAA) got up to at our booth and around the meetings.
Perspectives
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.
Creative Commons Basics
Welcome back to the Sourcing Series! In this segment, we’re introducing readers to Creative Commons licenses. These are online and easy-to-use licenses that clearly outline the possible uses of a material based on rightsholders’ preferences.
Basics of Public Domain
Welcome back to the Sourcing Series. Today we’re introducing readers to the basics of public domain. Public domain is one property rights status that clearly outlines the possible uses of a material.
