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.
Data Story Short
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 […]
Learn to Conduct a Basic Archaeological Survey
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 […]
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 […]
How to Make Your Own (Archaeological) Book Club
Welcome to the Alexandria Archive Institute and Open Context‘s Data Story Shorts! Here in How to Make Your Own (Archaeological) Book Club we explain how we selected and created our Aggregative Series book club Data Stories. Reading and discussion—which we consider ways to read, work with, and communicate data—are essential for all archaeology learners.
Introducing Data Story Shorts
We’re proud to introduce a new series of open educational resources (OERs) from the Data Literacy Program (DLP) of the Alexandria Archive Institute (AAI). These are our Data Story Shorts. The Shorts are smaller, bite-sized Data Stories about specific topics, skills, or data. In this article, we’ll explain some of the differences between our Shorts […]
