In October 2025, the Data Literacy Program ran the Archaeological Data Literacy Practicum (ADLP). Over five weeks scholars learned to read, work with, analyze, argue and communicate with data that they co-created through the activities of the Practicum. Here we recount a few highlights and share links to the syllabus, videos, and other materials to […]
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New articles by AAI staff
The end of June has been a great time for articles by Alexandria Archive Institute (AAI) staff, with new free to read and share publications in the open access journals Advances in Archaeological Practice and Internet Archaeology.
Turning Data into Narrative
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.
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 […]
A Glorious Mystery: Rosaries and Robbery
This exercise is best suited to those with an interest in the archaeology of Spanish Florida, stakeholders at archaeological sites, or using role-playing games for archaeological education. Users should know how to use the internet for research and interacting with digital documents like PDFs and be prepared to respectively represent the perspectives of others but […]
Pilot Applications Open for the Archaeological Data Literacy Practicum
The Data Literacy Program of the Alexandria Archive Institute / Open Context invites applications from anyone interested in archaeology for a one-month program to develop their data literacy skills during October 2025.
