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 […]
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 […]
Of Mycenaean Men: The Public Archaeology Book Club
This exercise is best suited to those with an interest in defining data, understanding archaeological data, or discussing the impacts of archaeological data on modern society. Users should have some familiarity with group discussion or book clubs, but previous experience with data or archaeology is not required.
Recap of the AAI at the SAAs
Did you miss us at the 2025 Society for American Archaeology meeting (SAAs) in Denver? No worries! In this article, we recap all the cool things that the Alexandria Archive Institute (AAI), Open Context, and the Digital Index of North American Archaeology (DINAA) got up to at our booth and around the meetings.
