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 […]
Navigating Field Data Collection
Networking Archaeological Data and Communities (NADAC), our Institute for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), held its second workshop on the topic of Data in the Field. Building on the lessons of cleaning messy data, February’s workshop focused on the earliest stage of the data lifecycle: […]
Birds, Mastodons, and Ethical Choices
The past few months…even the past week, has been a LOT in the world of social media. The acquisition of Twitter resulted in a digital mass migration to Mastodon and other online places, disrupting online communities that were years in the making. Projects using Twitter for outreach (like us!) or data collection are having to […]
Keep it Creative: The Creative Series and data literacy
For this Digital Data Stories (DDS) Series on Series entry, we’re exploring our Creative Series. Creative endeavors rarely enter into discussions of archaeological data literacy. And yet, the complex skills required to create art make them perfect for the palimpsest of narrative that is archaeology. Due to this, we thought leveraging creativity would be a […]
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 […]
