Recently, the Data Literacy Program’s (DLP’s) Paulina Przystupa gave a guest lecture on historical maps. While the DLP talks a lot about archaeological data, we often default to data tables as their main format. We allude to other kinds of structured data (such as sentences and citations) but an important type of structured data that […]
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Calling all Of Mycenaean Men
Do you love reading? Do you love book clubs or recommendation lists? Do you have an interest in archaeology? If you said “yes” to at least one of these, we’d love your feedback on the first theme of our upcoming data story, Of Mycenaean Men: Public Archaeology Book Club!
Archaeology and Comics: Pop and material culture – An ARF brownbag
For the University of California Berkeley’s Archaeological Research Facility (or, the ARF), Paulina F. Przystupa a member of The Alexandria Archive team (AAI), recently gave a talk discussing archaeology and comic books.
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).
Defining a data story
If you keep up with our news here at The Alexandria Archive Institute (AAI) you may have noticed that we talk about archaeology…a lot. But we also talk about teaching and literacy. And stories. And also sometimes data. And, recently, we’ve been talking a lot about data stories. However, one thing we haven’t discussed is […]
Defining Data Literacy
If you’ve been following the Alexandria Archive Institute (AAI) you may have noticed we use some academic jargon. We try not to, but it’s unavoidable considering what we do.
