Welcome to the Digital Data Stories blog series! The Alexandria Archive Institute and Open Context advocate for data sharing, data literacy, open access, and community collaborations. In this series, we discuss our ongoing digital data literacy project, the goal of which is to promote easier use of digital open data by students, researchers, and the […]
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Acronyms Galore: AAI/OC at the IHSHG (Oof!)
We’re all about the digital here at the Alexandria Archive. In this time of COVID that means we’re all about the digital talk! On February 3, the International History Students and Historians Group invited our team to discuss digital data, museums, history, heritage, archaeology, and what all of these things have in common. We also […]
Digital Cultural Heritage at the Alexandria Archive Institute and Open Context
Increasingly, archaeological projects and museums are adapting their data into the digital realm. What are the benefits and challenges related to this change? How can we make better use of digital data? What are our responsibilities in creating, using, and maintaining digital data? In this conversation, the Alexandria Archive and Open Context teams will present […]
M is for Museums: Teaching with Online Museum Collections
Welcome to the Digging Digital Museum Collections blog series! The Alexandria Archive Institute and Open Context advocate for data sharing, data literacy, open access, and community collaborations. In this series, we explore user experiences with online museum collections and question what we can do to use museum collections data in more accessible, inclusive, and efficient […]
Who are online museum collections for?
Part 1: Who are online museum collections for? by Pınar DURGUN It has been a year since Bette Midler tried to shame three teenage girls on her Twitter for looking at their phones in an art museum (Fig. 1). How the world has changed since then! Now that most museums worldwide are in lockdown, only […]
AAI / Open Context welcomes two new postdoctoral researchers
We are delighted to introduce two individuals who are joining the AAI / Open Context team to lead our Data Literacy Program, a new undertaking supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities. The Data Literacy Program aims to widen and diversify uses of cultural heritage data by crafting […]
