Welcome to the Alexandria Archive Institute and Open Context‘s Data Story Shorts! Here in Learn to Conduct a Basic Archaeological Survey, you’ll conduct an archaeological-style survey of your neighborhood and use those observations to cultivate your data literacy. We based this short on practices from the “slow” movement and if you’d like to learn more […]
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How to use TASL attribution
Welcome to the Digital Data Stories of the Alexandria Archive Institute and Open Context! In this Data Story Short, we contextualize our use of the Title-Author-Source-License (TASL) attribution system that Creative Commons (CC) suggests people use with CC licensed works. As an extension of the Sourcing Series, in this short we summarize and use examples […]
Pilot Applications Open for the Archaeological Data Literacy Practicum
The Data Literacy Program of the Alexandria Archive Institute / Open Context invites applications from anyone interested in archaeology for a one-month program to develop their data literacy skills during October 2025.
Tips on using images from Wikimedia Commons
Welcome to another Sourcing Series segment presented by the Data Literacy Program (DLP) of the Alexandria Archive Institute. In this how-to article, we discuss how we’ve used Wikimedia Commons as a source for cool and relevant images for our Digital Data Stories. This is a follow-up article to our introduction to online sources of reusable […]
How to use the Digital Collections of the NYPL
Welcome to another Sourcing Series segment presented by the Data Literacy Program (DLP) of the Alexandria Archive Institute. In this how-to article, we discuss how we’ve used the New York Public Library’s Digital Collections as a source for images to add to our Digital Data Stories and other materials. This is another follow-up article to […]
Handy image subscription services for archaeology
Welcome to another Sourcing Series segment presented by the Data Literacy Program (DLP) of the Alexandria Archive Institute. In this article, we introduce a couple of subscription-based sources for (re)usable images. This is a follow-up to our introduction to online sources for reusable images.
