Paulina F. Przystupa, a member of The Alexandria Archive Institute (AAI) team recently talked about the overlap between archaeological data literacy and comic books. Specifically, the talk focused on how Paulina brought a love of comics to the Data Literacy Program (DLP).
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Listicles and Literacy – The Aggregative Series to promote data literacy
For this Digital Data Stories (DDS) Series on Series entry, we’re introducing our Aggregative Series. While you may have misread that as our aggressive series, this series aggregates existing resources that teach archaeological data literacy. Currently, these will act as both recommendations for existing work from our staff and a Data Story, guiding groups through […]
Keep it Creative: The Creative Series and data literacy
For this Digital Data Stories (DDS) Series on Series entry, we (the Data Literacy Program) are introducing our Creative Series. One might assume that creativity rarely enters discussions of archaeological data literacy. However, the complex skills required to create art and story are perfect for the palimpsest that is archaeology. Knowing this, we thought it […]
Call for Applicants for Digging Up Data: Turning an Idea into Digital Scholarship is live!
In 2021, the Alexandria Archive Institute / Open Context, launched Digging up Data, a collaborative initiative in partnership with the American Society of Overseas Research Early Career Scholars Committee (ASOR ECS). The overwhelming interest in our pilot program encouraged us to team up again to promote data literacy and public scholarship among early career scholars. Under the […]
Act 8: Editing our Stories
Fall and early winter have been a whirlwind here at the Data Literacy Program (DLP). Between testing two Creative Series Data Stories and our other work, we did not post as much via AAI News. So what were we working on behind the scenes?
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…
