Artifacts, belongings, contrivances, debris, effects, finds, garbage, habiliments, implements, junk, kit, luggage, materiel, necessities, objects, possessions, quarries, relics, stuff, things, utensils, vestiges, whatchamacallits, xeniums, you-name-its, and, sometimes, zilch. What do archaeologists even look at?
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Cow-culating your data with spreadsheets and R
This exercise is best suited to those with an interest in zooarchaeology, the Neolithic, or Central European archaeology. Users should have a basic understanding of what a spreadsheet is, but little previous experience is required.
Whose Heritage? Using material culture to celebrate AANHPI heritage month
Welcome to the Alexandria Archive Institute and Open Context‘s Data Story Shorts! In celebration of Asian and Pacific American (AAPI) Heritage Month (AAPIHM) or Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander (AANHPI) Heritage Month (AANHPIHM), in this short I’ll use one of Open Context’s projects to consider the complexity of celebrating this heritage month. Specifically, […]
Who writes popular science?
Previously, we’ve discussed our Aggregative series data stories. These curated lists will include book club guides, search tutorials, teaching resources, and more. However, as we assemble these ingredients, it seemed valuable to share one struggle with these data stories.
Partner Highlight: Dr. Tiffany Earley-Spadoni
Welcome to The Sustainability Sandbox blog series! The Alexandria Archive Institute and Open Context (AAI/OC) advocate for data sharing, data literacy, open access, and community collaborations. In this series, we share the story of our journey to identify and develop digital data management, public engagement, and data literacy projects with potential partner institutions. We want […]
The AAI Reads!
Welcome to a new blog series of the Data Literacy Program (DLP) called the Alexandria Archive Institute Reads (AAI Reads!). Previously, we introduced our new data story formats and one that we hope to share soon is our Aggregative series. This series will consist of curated lists and teaching materials of existing work that cultivate archaeological […]
