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 […]
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AAI / Open Context Welcomes Director of Strategic Partnerships
We are very happy to welcome Dr. Leigh Anne Lieberman to the AAI / Open Context team as Director of Strategic Partnerships! This is a new position created with a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and matching funds from the AAI’s ongoing NEH Challenge Grant. In her role with the AAI / Open […]
Highlights from 2020
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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 […]
Introducing AAI / Open Context’s Curator for Digital Collections Interpretation and Public Engagement
We are happy to announce a new member of the AAI / Open Context team. Dr. Pınar Durgun joins us today in a new position as Curator for Digital Collections Interpretation and Public Engagement. Pınar is an archaeologist with a background in art history, anthropology, and cultural heritage. She received her PhD from Brown University and […]
AAI welcomes new board member, Dr. Christine Szuter
The Alexandria Archive Institute team is delighted to welcome Dr. Christine Szuter to its Board of Directors. Christine received her BA (sociology and psychology) from Bowling Green State University, her MA (anthropology) from Loyola-Chicago, and her PhD (anthropology) from the University of Arizona. Dr. Szuter served as President & CEO of the Amerind Foundation in […]