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On the right is blue text on a white background listing: The Tutorial Series The Creative Series (which is in a light blue rounded box);; The Dialogues Series; The Aggregative Series; The Solo Series; The Interactive Series; The Publication Series with each series on its own row; to the left is a grey box with text primarily in black. The text reads “Reading data involves understanding what data is, and what aspects of the world it represents. Working with data involves acquiring, cleaning, and managing it. Analyzing data involves filtering, sorting, aggregating, comparing, and performing other such analytic operations on it. Arguing with data involves using data to support a larger narrative intended to communicate a message to a particular audience. Bhargava, Rahul, et al. “Data murals: Using the arts to build data literacy.” The Journal of Community Informatics 12.3 (2016). Throughout this document, data stories are aligned to show how they can be used to reinforce Reading, Working, Analyzing, and Arguing with data.” Reading is in dark blue matching a circular book spine icon to the left of the text that is in white lines on the blue background; Working is in light blue matching a tabbed planner-style circular icon in white lines on the same light blue; Analyzing is in lavender corresponding to a circular computer icon in white lines on the same lavender; and Arguing is in pink corresponding to a circular text books icon in white lines

Keep it Creative: The Creative Series and data literacy

February 2, 2023 by Paulina Przystupa

For this Digital Data Stories (DDS) Series on Series entry, we’re exploring our Creative Series. Creative endeavors rarely enter into discussions of archaeological data literacy. And yet, the complex skills required to create art make them perfect for the palimpsest of narrative that is archaeology. Due to this, we thought leveraging creativity would be a […]

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Open Context Roadmap

December 14, 2022 by Eric Kansa

While many steps in archaeological data publishing can be automated to speed up the publishing process, the complexity and diversity and messiness of archaeological data makes it really difficult to develop tools that in other systems might be simple…

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On a dark blue banner in white reads "A Digital Data Story" followed by in light blue coloring reads "30 days to an article: archaeological inspiration for your writing". Below that is the open context logo of a blue rombus with long edge oriented up and down on the left and light blue rhombus in the same orientation to form a book next the the words "Open context". This is above words that say "The Alexandria Archive Institute". In the center is a large photo of a broken disk tinted dark blue with some pieces missing and etchings on it. Along the edge of the disc in the bottom right is the word orientation in pink.

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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On a dark blue banner in white reads "A Digital Data Story" followed by in light blue coloring reads "It’s All in the Wrist (Bones): Archaeological Data as Artistic Inspiration" under the dark blue bar is a thin light blue bar. Below that is a large pound (#) sign in light blue. This relates to the smaller pound (#) sign below that reads "This Data Story contains no images of human remains." Between the two tags centered is a piece of animal bone tinted blue digitally. Below that is a 0 to 10 bar measure indicating hte piece is 10cm in length

Archaeological Art for a Data-Driven #ArchInk

October 1, 2022 by Paulina Przystupa

Have you been itching to illustrate? Craving some cooking? Or daring to dance? Are you wondering how you could make these inclinations archaeological? Well, have we got some inspiration for you!

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On the right is blue text on a white background listing: The Tutorial Series (which is in a light blue rounded box); The Creative Series; The Dialogues Series; The Aggregative Series; The Solo Series; The Interactive Series; The Publication Series with each series on its own row; to the left is a grey box with text primarily in black. The text reads “Reading data involves understanding what data is, and what aspects of the world it represents. Working with data involves acquiring, cleaning, and managing it. Analyzing data involves filtering, sorting, aggregating, comparing, and performing other such analytic operations on it. Arguing with data involves using data to support a larger narrative intended to communicate a message to a particular audience. Bhargava, Rahul, et al. “Data murals: Using the arts to build data literacy.” The Journal of Community Informatics 12.3 (2016). Throughout this document, data stories are aligned to show how they can be used to reinforce Reading, Working, Analyzing, and Arguing with data.” Reading is in dark blue matching a circular book spine icon to the left of the text that is in white lines on the blue background; Working is in light blue matching a tabbed planner-style circular icon in white lines on the same light blue; Analyzing is in lavender corresponding to a circular computer icon in white lines on the same lavender; and Arguing is in pink corresponding to a circular text books icon in white lines

Tapping away at our Tutorial Series

September 15, 2022 by Paulina Przystupa

For this entry into our Digital Data Stories (DDS) series on series, we’ll explore our Tutorial Series. In many ways, tutorials are what most people think of when they consider improving their data literacy. Due to this, we thought tutorials would be a great place for us to start creating data stories.

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Call for a Sensitivity reader!

August 23, 2022 by Paulina Przystupa

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. […]

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