Did you miss us at the 2025 Society for American Archaeology meeting (SAAs) in Denver? No worries! In this article, we recap all the cool things that the Alexandria Archive Institute (AAI), Open Context, and the Digital Index of North American Archaeology (DINAA) got up to at our booth and around the meetings.
public engagement
The Spring 2025 Reference Guide
We’re happy to announce the Data Literacy Program’s (DLP’s) Spring 2025 Reference Guide. Formerly known as the Table of Contents, this Version 3.0 of that document provides short introductions for all our Digital Data Stories.
See us at the 2025 Denver SAAs!
Catch the Alexandria Archive Institute at the 90th annual Society for American Archaeology meeting (aka the SAAs)! If you’ll be attending in Denver, CO April 23-27, we hope you can listen to one of our papers, bring questions to our forum and poster, or stop by our booth to say hi!
Tome Reader: The AAI Reads Comics Book Club
This exercise is best suited to those with an interest in reading archaeology-related comics, exploring how to use visuals in archaeology, or discussing the impacts of archaeological data on current comic books. Users should have some familiarity with group discussion or book clubs, but previous experience with data, archaeology, or comics is not required.
To Disrupt and Delight: Teaching Archaeology Through Narrative
This exercise is best suited to those with an interest in teaching with narrative, archaeological data literacy, and critically engaging with published articles. Users should have some familiarity with academic language and an interest in teaching and learning, but previous experience with data literacy and archaeology is not required.
Pubs, no drinks included – Publications that cultivate data literacy
For this Digital Data Stories (DDS) Series on Series entry, we’re exploring our Publication Series where we use the format of the publication to highlight important aspects of data literacy. We do this because reading and writing language are foundational to data literacy. That’s because they help us understand “what aspects of the world” (Bhargava […]
