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 […]
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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 […]
New Article about the FAIR+CARE Cultural Heritage Network
The September 2025 issue of The SAA Archaeological Record (the magazine of the Society for American Archaeology) contains a short article about the IMLS-funded FAIR+CARE Cultural Heritage Network. Check it out here: “The FAIR+CARE Cultural Heritage Network: Advancing Practices to Support Ethical Data Management in Archaeology” (available open access).
Turning Data into Narrative
Welcome to the Digital Data Stories of the Alexandria Archive Institute and Open Context! In this Data Story Short, we’ll talk about what we do with all that data we’ve created, entered, and analyzed.
Going from Notes to Data
Welcome to the Digital Data Stories of the Alexandria Archive Institute and Open Context! In this Data Story Short, you’ll build your own data set, in a spreadsheet, using notes from archaeological recording forms. This will turn these organized notes into structured tabular data. Structured data are data that can be filtered and/or easily read […]
A Glorious Mystery: Rosaries and Robbery
This exercise is best suited to those with an interest in the archaeology of Spanish Florida, stakeholders at archaeological sites, or using role-playing games for archaeological education. Users should know how to use the internet for research and interacting with digital documents like PDFs, but previous experience with archaeology and role-play is not required.
