The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded the Alexandria Archive Institute a grant for the project Open Context: Sustaining a Collaborative Data Infrastructure for Archaeology. The award from the NSF’s Archaeometry competition provides $270,834 over five years to develop and expand the critical technological infrastructure and editorial processes that support Open Context’s data publishing services. […]
Sustainability
Open Context Roadmap
While many steps in archaeological data publishing can be automated to speed up the publishing process, the complexity and diversity and messiness of archaeological data makes it really difficult to develop tools that in other systems might be simple…
Partner Highlight: Dr. Tiffany Earley-Spadoni
Welcome to The Sustainability Sandbox blog series! The Alexandria Archive Institute and Open Context (AAI/OC) advocate for data sharing, data literacy, open access, and community collaborations. In this series, we share the story of our journey to identify and develop digital data management, public engagement, and data literacy projects with potential partner institutions. We want […]
Assessing Our Work
Welcome to The Sustainability Sandbox blog series! The Alexandria Archive Institute and Open Context advocate for data sharing, data literacy, open access, and community collaborations. In this series, we share the story of our journey to identify and develop digital data management, public engagement, and data literacy projects with potential partner institutions. If you’ve been […]
The Untold Potential of Open Data: Pedagogical Outcomes
Welcome to The Sustainability Sandbox blog series! The Alexandria Archive Institute and Open Context advocate for data sharing, data literacy, open access, and community collaborations. In this series, we share the story of our journey to identify and develop digital data management, public engagement, and data literacy projects with potential partner institutions. The Archaeological Institute […]
(Future) Partner Highlight: You!
Welcome to The Sustainability Sandbox blog series! The Alexandria Archive Institute and Open Context advocate for data sharing, data literacy, open access, and community collaborations. In this series, we share the story of our journey to identify and develop digital data management, public engagement, and data literacy projects with potential partner institutions. We set out […]



