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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Solo, Steady, and Structured Data Literacy
For this Digital Data Stories (DDS) Series on Series entry, we’re exploring our Solo Series. While we generally practice archaeology as a group activity, there are times when we need to practice our archaeological data literacy skills solo. Alone in a museum basement pondering a potsherd, staring into the spreadsheet middle distance, or trekking a […]
AAI / Open Context Welcomes New Digital Humanities Program Associate
We are delighted to welcome Dr. Melissa Cradic to the AAI / Open Context team as Digital Humanities Program Associate. In this new role, Melissa will manage and lead digital humanities workshops and seminars related to our organization’s recently awarded NEH Institute for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities and NSF FAIR Open Science grants […]
Highlights from 2022
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Open Context Roadmap
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…
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 […]
