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.
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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 […]
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?
Call for a Sensitivity reader!
The Alexandria Archive Institute/Open Context is looking for a sensitivity reader for an upcoming Data Story that draws from an archaeological data set about oracle bones from East Asia. Specifically, we are looking for a sensitivity reader of East-Asian heritage with some familiarity with the history and use of oracle bones either historically or archaeologically. […]
Act 5: Where were we in our story
While it feels like we just finished March 2020, take three, it’s amazing to realize that we survived March 2022. Along with that, it’s the first anniversary of the Data Literacy Program’s (DLP’s) quarterly reports. So, what have we been doing in the last few months?
Act 4: Revising our story
Hello, January 2022! It’s hard to believe, and yet here we are. Of course more important than the new year, is that we’ve had another three months of cultivating the Data Literacy Program (DLP) here at the Alexandria Archive Institute (AAI).
