The Alexandria Archive Institute

OPENING THE PAST, INSPIRING THE FUTURE

Publications

The following is a list of publications related to our past and current projects. Updates on our work can also be found in the AAI News and on Heritage Bytes, the Open Context blog.

  • Kansa, Eric C. and Sarah Whitcher Kansa. 2022. Promoting data quality and reuse in archaeology through collaborative identifier practices. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 119(43): e2109313118. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2109313118
  • Kansa, Eric C. 2022. “On Infrastructure, Accountability, and Governance in Digital Archaeology.” In Critical Archaeology in the Digital Age, Proceedings of the 12th IEMA Visiting Scholar’s Conference, Buffalo, NY, USA, 6–7 April 2019, edited by Kevin Garstki. Los Angeles: UCLA Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press, pp 141-152. [Open Access version]
  • Faniel, Ixchel, Anne Austin, Sarah Whitcher Kansa, Eric Kansa, Jennifer Jacobs, and Phoebe France. 2021. Identifying Opportunities for Collective Curation During Archaeological Excavations. International Journal of Digital Curation 16(1). https://doi.org/10.2218%2Fijdc.v16i1.742
  • Kansa, Eric and Sarah W. Kansa. 2021. Digital Data and Data Literacy in Archaeology Now and in the New Decade. Advances in Archaeological Practice 9(1): 81-85. https://doi.org/10.1017/aap.2020.55
  • Kansa, S., Atici, L., Kansa, E., & Meadow, R. (2020). Archaeological Analysis in the Information Age: Guidelines for Maximizing the Reach, Comprehensiveness, and Longevity of Data. Advances in Archaeological Practice, 8(1), 40-52. [Published Version] [Version of Record (Open Access)]
  • Sarah W. Kansa and Eric C. Kansa. (2018). Data Beyond the Archive in Digital Archaeology. Advances in Archaeological Practice 6(2): 89-92. [Published Version] [Version of Record (Open Access)] Also check out this podcast for more discussion on this topic.
  • Eric C. Kansa, Sarah W. Kansa, Josh J. Wells, Stephen J. Yerka, Kelsey N. Myers, Robert C. DeMuth, Thaddeus G. Bissett and David G. Anderson. (2018). The Digital Index of North American Archaeology: networking government data to navigate an uncertain future for the past. Antiquity 92(362): 490-506. [Published Version] [< href=”https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3xb6k0hf”>Author Preprint (Open Access)]
  • Anderson DG, Bissett TG, Yerka SJ, Wells JJ, Kansa EC, Kansa SW, Myers KNM, DeMuth RC, and White DA. Sea-level rise and archaeological site destruction: An example from the southeastern United States using DINAA (Digital Index of North American Archaeology). PLOS ONE 12(11): e0188142 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0188142
  • “Click Here to Save the Past” by Eric C. Kansa. In Mobilizing the Past for a Digital Future: The Potential of Digital Archaeology, edited by Erin Walcek Averett, Jody Michael Gordon, and Derek B. Counts, 443-472. Grand Forks, ND: The Digital Press at the University of North Dakota. (2016) [Published Version (Open Access)]
  • “Reflections on a Road Less Traveled: Alt-Ac Archaeology” by Sarah Whitcher Kansa and Eric C. Kansa. Journal of Eastern Mediterranean Archaeology & Heritage Studies 3(3): 293-298. (2015) [Article] [Open Access Preprint]
  • “Contextualizing Digital Data as Scholarship in Eastern Mediterranean Archaeology” by Eric Kansa. CHS Research Bulletin 3(2). (2015) [Article (Open Access)]
  • “Data Sharing Reveals Complexity in the Westward Spread of Domestic Animals across Neolithic Turkey” by Arbuckle BS, Kansa SW, Kansa E, Orton D, Çakırlar C, Gourichon L, Atici L, Galik A, Marciniak A, Mulville J, Buitenhuis H, Carruthers D, De Cupere B, Demirergi A, Frame S, Helmer D, Martin L, Peters J, Pöllath N, Pawłowska K, Russell N, Twiss K and Würtenberger D. PLoS ONE 9(6): e99845. (2014) [Article (Open Access)]
  • “Web-based discovery and integration of archaeological historic properties inventory data: The Digital Index of North American Archaeology (DINAA)” by JJ Wells, EC Kansa, SW Kansa, SJ Yerka, DG Anderson DG, TG Bissett, KN Myers and RC DeMuth. Literary and Linguist Computing fqu028. (2014) [Article] [Open Access Preprint]
  • “Publishing and Pushing: Mixing Models for Communicating Research Data in Archaeology” by Eric Kansa, Sarah Whitcher Kansa, and Benjamin Arbuckle. International Journal of Digital Curation 9(1): 57–70. (2014) Note: Winner of the “Best Paper” prize at the 2014 International Digital Curation Conference (San Francisco, CA) View Open Access Postprint.
  • “On Ethics, Sustainability, and Open Access in Archaeology” by Eric C. Kansa, Sarah Whitcher Kansa, and Lynne Goldstein. The SAA Archaeological Record 13 (4):15-22. (2013) Available Open Access from SAA.
  • “The Challenges of Digging Data: A Study of Context in Archaeological Data Reuse” by Ixchel Faniel, Eric Kansa, Sarah Whitcher Kansa, Julianna Barrera-Gomez, and Elizabeth Yakel. JCDL 2013 Proceedings of the 13th ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, 295-304. New York, NY: ACM. (2013) http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2467696.2467712. Open Access Preprint.
  • “We All Know That a 14 Is a Sheep: Data Publication and Professionalism in Archaeological Communication” by Eric C. Kansa and Sarah Whitcher Kansa. Journal of Eastern Mediterranean Archaeology and Heritage Studies 1(1):88-98. (2013) Open Access Preprint in eScholarship.
  • “Other People’s Data: A Demonstration of the Imperative of Publishing Primary Data” by Levent Atici, Sarah Whitcher Kansa, Justin Lev-Tov and Eric C. Kansa. Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory 20(4):663-681. (2013)
  • “Openness and archaeology’s information ecosystem” by Eric Kansa (2012) World Archaeology 44(4): 498-520. Article. Open Access Preprint.
  • “The Visible Past / Open Context Loosely Coupled Model for Digital Humanities Ubiquitous Collaboration and Publishing: Collaborating Across Print, Mobile, and Online Media” by Sorin Adam Matei, Eric Kansa, and Nicholas Rauh (2011) Spaces and Flows: An International Journal of Urban and ExtraUrban Studies 1(3): 33-48. Article.
  • “Towards a Do-it-yourself Cyberinfrastructure: Open Data, Incentives, and Reducing Costs and Complexities of Data Sharing” by Eric C. Kansa and Sarah Whitcher Kansa (2011) In Archaeology 2.0: New Approaches to Communication and Collaboration, pp. 57-91, edited by E.C. Kansa, S.W. Kansa, and E. Watrall. Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press: Los Angeles, CA. Available Open Access.
  • “User-Generated Content in Zooarchaeology: Exploring the “Middle Space” of Scholarly Communication” by Sarah Whitcher Kansa and Francis Deblauwe. In Archaeology 2.0 and Beyond: New Tools for Collaboration and Communication, edited by E.C. Kansa, S.W. Kansa and E. Watrall. Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press: Los Angeles, CA. Pp. 185-206. Available Open Access.
  • “Beyond BoneCommons: Recent Developments in Zooarchaeological Data Sharing” by Sarah Whitcher Kansa and Eric C. Kansa. (2011) The SAA Archaeological Record 11(1): 26-29. [Issue]
  • “Open Context in Context: Cyberinfrastructure and Distributed Approaches to Publish and Preserve Archaeological Data” by Eric C. Kansa (2010) The SAA Archaeological Record 10(5):12-16. [Issue]
  • “Publishing Data in Open Context: Methods and Perspectives” by Eric C. Kansa and Sarah Whitcher Kansa. CSA Newsletter, Vol. XXIII, No. 2. (September 2010) (click here to view at CSA web site)
  • “Googling the Grey: Open Data, Web Services,and Semantics” by Eric C. Kansa, Sarah Whitcher Kansa, Margie M. Burton and Cindy Stankowski. Archaeologies 6(2). (2010) (click here to view open access at Springer)
  • “Web Syndication Approaches for Sharing Primary Data in “Small Science” Domains” by Eric C. Kansa and Ahrash Bissell. Data Science Journal 9, 42-53. (2010) (click here to view)
  • “Yes, it is all about you: User Needs, Archaeology and Digital Data” by Sarah Whitcher Kansa and Eric C. Kansa. CSA Newsletter, Vol. XXII, No. 1. (April 2009) (click here to view at CSA web site)
  • “Open Context: Developing Common Solutions for Data Sharing” by Eric Kansa and Sarah Whitcher Kansa. CSA Newsletter, Vol. XXI, No. 3. (January 2009) (click here to view at CSA web site)
  • “An Open Context for Near Eastern Archaeology” (click here to download a self-archived version). The December 2007 issue of Near Eastern Archaeology (Vol. 70 No. 4) features a Forum piece (co-authored by Sarah Whitcher Kansa, Eric Kansa and Jason Schultz) on electronic publication of field research data with Open Context, including responses to issues around copyright and professional incentives.
  • “Open Content in Open Context” (click here to download a pdf). The Nov-Dec 2007 issue of Educational Technology magazine is an entire special issue dedicated to “Opening Educational Resources.” A series of articles in this issue highlight open educational models, including OpenCourseWare, Connexions and this piece on Open Context, co-authored by Sarah Whitcher Kansa and Eric Kansa.
  • “Open Data on the World Wide Web: Opencontext.org and Data Integration as a Community Process ” (click here to download a pdf). This paper discusses Open Context’s approach to data sharing and data integration. It was presented at the 2007 International Association of Technological University Libraries (IATUL) Conference held in Stockholm, Sweden.
  • “Evaluating AnthroCommons ” (click here to download a pdf). This paper discusses AnthroCommons and the potential importance of digital open access systems for professional conferences.
  • “A community approach to data integration” (Geosphere Vol. 1, Num. 2). This paper discusses the ArchaeoML data structure, its application, and theoretical value.
  • “Publishing Primary Data on the World Wide Web: Opencontext.org and an Open Future for the Past” (Technical Briefs in Historical Archaeology 2(1):1-11). This paper discusses Open Context as an open access system for publishing primary archaeological data and museum collections.
  • “Protecting Traditional Knowledge and Expanding Access to Scientific Data” in the International Journal of Cultural Property, Vol. 12, Num. 3. (Click here to download a self-archived version). This paper, coauthored with Jason Schultz (EFF) and Ahrash Bissell (Duke), discusses incentive issues for sharing field research as well as potential licensing strategies to better recognize the interests of cultural heritage stakeholders.
  • Storing and Sharing Central Asian GIS: The Alexandria Archive. Short article in the Silk Road Foundation newsletter “The Silk Road”. (Click here to view)