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On the right is blue text on a white background listing: The Tutorial Series; The Creative Series; The Dialogues Series; The Aggregative Series; The Solo Series (which is in a light blue rounded box); The Interactive Series; The Publication Series with each series on its own row; to the left is a grey box with text primarily in black. The text reads “Reading data involves understanding what data is, and what aspects of the world it represents. Working with data involves acquiring, cleaning, and managing it. Analyzing data involves filtering, sorting, aggregating, comparing, and performing other such analytic operations on it. Arguing with data involves using data to support a larger narrative intended to communicate a message to a particular audience. Bhargava, Rahul, et al. “Data murals: Using the arts to build data literacy.” The Journal of Community Informatics 12.3 (2016). Throughout this document, data stories are aligned to show how they can be used to reinforce Reading, Working, Analyzing, and Arguing with data.” Reading is in dark blue matching a circular book spine icon to the left of the text that is in white lines on the blue background; Working is in light blue matching a tabbed planner-style circular icon in white lines on the same light blue; Analyzing is in lavender corresponding to a circular computer icon in white lines on the same lavender; and Arguing is in pink corresponding to a circular text books icon in white lines

Solo, Steady, and Structured Data Literacy

May 25, 2023 by Paulina Przystupa

For this Digital Data Stories (DDS) Series on Series entry, we’re exploring our Solo Series. While we generally practice archaeology as a group activity, there are times when we need to practice our archaeological data literacy skills solo. Alone in a museum basement pondering a potsherd, staring into the spreadsheet middle distance, or trekking a […]

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There and Back Again

April 28, 2023 by Melissa Cradic

April’s Networking Archaeological Data and Communities (NADAC) workshop, the fourth such session of spring 2023, brought to a close the NADAC Institute’s Data Management Lifecycle series. The Data Management Lifecycle is the first of four main segments of the NADAC Institute, which runs through Fall 2024. It has been an exciting start to the program’s […]

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On a dark blue banner on the left side in white reads "Creative Series" oriented vertically. In light blue, perpendicular to the banner on a white background says "30 days to an article: archaeological inspiration for your writing". Below that is a photo of a broken disk tinted dark blue with some pieces missing and etchings on it. Along the edge of the disc in the bottom right is the word orientation in pink. Below that is a piece of animal bone tinted blue digitally. Next to the bone is a large pound (#) sign in light blue. This relates to the smaller pound (#) sign below that reads "This Data Story contains no images of human remains." Below these images reads in light blue coloring reads "It’s All in the Wrist (Bones): Archaeological Data as Artistic Inspiration".

The Creativity Clarion Call

April 27, 2023 by Paulina Przystupa

Do you love making things? Do you love building good writing habits or exercising your painting skills based on a theme? And do you have an interest in archaeology? If you said “yes” to at least the first question, we’d love to have you test our Creative Series Data Stories!

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Three light blue boats with words over them with their bows pointing to the right (port). The farthest left boat reads "What is a data story?" Below that in a paragraph it reads "It’s a narrative given to a particular set of archaeological data, arranged to highlight an event or particular purpose". The center boat reads "What are archaeological data?". Below that in a paragraph reads "They’re a series of observations generated from archaeological inquiry that underpin a particular interpretation of the past". The farthest right boat reads "Why use this format?" Below that in a paragraph reads "Humans use stories to make sense of the world and stories contribute to a re-humanizing approach to archaeological data". The boats have dashed linse leaving them going off the image and they sit on a blue tinged version of a map of the San Francisco Bay.

The Voyage of the Data Story

April 13, 2023 by Paulina Przystupa

You may have heard that the Alexandria Archive Institute / Open Context (AAI/OC) team sailed into the San Francisco Bay to attend the Society for California Archaeology meetings. What ye mateys may not have heard is what stories our sailors spun once they were on dry land.

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How Do You Solve A Problem Like Old Data?

March 24, 2023 by Melissa Cradic

This past Saturday, March 18th, Networking Archaeological Data and Communities (NADAC), our Institute for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), hosted its third workshop in its Data Management Lifecycle series. Led by faculty Anne Chen and Leigh Anne Lieberman, this month’s workshop addressed the myriad challenges […]

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Text on a white background with two rhombuses, the one on the left in dark blue and the one on the right in light blue next to one another to make a book like image. The First line text reads Open Context, the next reads a service of the Alexandria Archive institute the next, those are both in black letters, the title beneath that reads Archaeological Data Literacy and Comics in light blue matching the light blue in the book image, the words below that are "Bringing a passion project to a postdoctoral position" also in light blue. Beneath that in black it reads "Paulina F. Przystupa (@punuckish)" and then on a new line "ciszka@opencontext.org | ciszka@unm.edu" which are hyperlinked. And then on a new line "2 March 2023 - 8am PST". and then on a new line "California State University - Chico".

Archaeological Data Literacy and Comics

March 9, 2023 by Paulina Przystupa

Paulina F. Przystupa, a member of The Alexandria Archive Institute (AAI) team recently talked about the overlap between archaeological data literacy and comic books. Specifically, the talk focused on how Paulina brought a love of comics to the Data Literacy Program (DLP). 

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