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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How to find books about archaeological data literacy
Curious how we picked the books for Of Mycenaean Men? In this article, we explain the development of that open educational resource (OER) and how we found the books for it. We hope learning about our process helps folks who like popular science and nonfiction find more archaeological data literacy related works for themselves.
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 […]
How to use TASL attribution
Welcome to the Digital Data Stories of the Alexandria Archive Institute and Open Context! In this Data Story Short, we contextualize our use of the Title-Author-Source-License (TASL) attribution system that Creative Commons (CC) suggests people use with CC licensed works. As an extension of the Sourcing Series, in this short we summarize and use examples […]
