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Writing with Archaeological Inspiration

November 1, 2022 by Paulina Przystupa

Mayhaps you’ve had a manuscript marinating? Potentially you’ve been pondering potsherd patterning? Or digging around in your data? Are you wondering how to turn these tidbits into some archaeological writing? Well, have we got some inspiration for you!

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Act 6: Publishing our stories

June 30, 2022 by Paulina Przystupa

We had a busy spring here at the Data Literacy Program (DLP). Between publishing more articles, here on The Alexandria Archive’s News, and getting two data stories published for public use, we’ve done a lot in this second quarter of 2022. But beyond what we write about, what have we done recently?

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The heading image for our new data story Gabbing about Gabii: Goin from notes to data to narrative; an archaeological depictions of a harpy as a statue or cut relief is on a white background with a Digital Data STory running along the side

Gabbing about Gabii: Going from Notes to Data to Narrative

June 10, 2022 by Paulina Przystupa

This exercise is best suited to those with an interest in ceramics, the Roman Republic, or the archaeology of the Italian Peninsula. Users should have a basic understanding of archaeological data types, but little previous experience is required.

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Whose Heritage? Using material culture to celebrate AANHPI heritage month

May 13, 2022 by Paulina Przystupa

In celebration of Asian and Pacific American (AAPI) Heritage month (AAPIHM) or Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander (AANHPI) Heritage Month (AANHPIHM), I’ll be using one of Open Context’s projects to consider the complexity of celebrating this month. Specifically, I’ll use data from the Asian stoneware jars project, contributed by Dr. Peter Grave.

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The image is on a dark blue background. in the upper left is a a book that looks like a neural network with many connecting lines and nodes; with a rainbow coloring in the lines and a dark blue to black fade in the background. This is the AAI Reads Logo. Next to htat in light blue reads AAI reads in capital letters. Below that in a darker blue or indigo reads booktitle in capital letters and below that in similar colors is Author. Below that are two images of people with long hair in different settings. on the left under the name Paulina is a mixed race person with long dark hair and bear shoulders with a tank top that has a piece of blue and white visible they sit in frotn of wood paneling. The person on the right is in front of a red office background and is white with red hair and in a green top.

AAI Reads – Weapons of Math Destruction

April 28, 2022 by Paulina Przystupa

Welcome to our first The Alexandria Archives Reads! (AAI Reads!). The book that we’re highlighting is Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality And Threatens Democracy. Written by Cathy O’Neil in 2016, it’s a great introduction to the way that algorithms impact humanity. Specifically, it redefines the “m” in WMD from “mass” to […]

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On the Road Again with Best Practices for Digital Scholarship

November 5, 2021 by Sarah Kansa

Two weeks from now, I will board a plane and venture out into the big, wide world for the first time in nearly two years. The last place I flew back in February of 2020 was to Tempe to chat about FAIR data in archaeology with the folks at Digital Antiquity.

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