In October 2025, the Data Literacy Program ran the Archaeological Data Literacy Practicum (ADLP). Over five weeks scholars learned to read, work with, analyze, argue and communicate with data that they co-created through the activities of the Practicum. Here we recount a few highlights and share links to the syllabus, videos, and other materials to […]
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New articles by AAI staff
The end of June has been a great time for articles by Alexandria Archive Institute (AAI) staff, with new free to read and share publications in the open access journals Advances in Archaeological Practice and Internet Archaeology.
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 […]
Four-week Pilot Practicum Distills Lessons from AAI’s Data Literacy Program
The AAI’s Data Literacy Program (DLP) had a busy year! Check out this data set that lists all the Digital Data Stories, invited workshops, videos, and other works that the program developed since its establishment in 2020. In 2025, we shared more educational resources in our Data Story Shorts collection, released an interview Eric Kansa […]
Ctrl + Alt + Digital Humanities: Digging Up Data at ASOR 2025
By Brigid Clark and Lauren McCormick The beginning of the Digging Up Data session at the 2025 annual meeting of the American Society of Overseas Research (ASOR) looked a bit different than other sessions. Participants, who had gathered to present their work (in a session aptly called Digging Up Data: A Showcase of Ongoing Digital […]
FAIR+CARE Cultural Heritage Network Workshop #2
The FAIR+CARE Cultural Heritage Network held their second all-hands workshop in October 2025 with 42 participants from various sectors including CRM, universities, state archaeologists, Tribal archaeologists, museums, libraries, data publishers, and repositories. Since 2023, the IMLS-funded Network has been working online and through in-person workshops to develop, disseminate, and promote ethical good practice guidance and […]
