Celebrating a Year of Open Data
2013 has been a really big year for open data. In February, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy announced a new mandate for open access to peer-reviewed outcomes of federally-funded...
View ArticlePublish or Perish 2014, Resurrected Online
On February 13-14, the IFHA Project at UC Davis hosted the first Innovating Communication in Scholarship (ICIS) conference. The theme this year was Publish or Perish – the Future of Academic Publishing...
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Workshop Recap: State Site Files, DINAA, and Archaeology
We recently concluded a workshop for the DINAA project, held at the University of Tennessee (UT), Knoxville Office of Research on March 19th and 20th. The workshop brought together more than 30...
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DINAA Poster Symposium Sneak Peek
Here’s the first of several posters about the DINAA project that will be presented at the SAAs this week in Austin. About the Poster: Yes, this poster is printed on fabric. With a tip from a colleague...
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DINAA @ SAA
The DINAA project had a very successful reception at the 79th Annual Society for American Archaeology conference in Austin, TX last month. With several presentations spanning traditional conference...
View ArticleZooarchaeology of Neolithic Anatolia: Research Outcomes from Large-Scale Data...
We are happy to report the publication of a paper synthesizing several integrated datasets documenting zooarchaeological specimens from Neolithic Anatolia. The open access journal PLOS ONE published...
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Upgrading Open Context
With summer wrapping up and a new fellowship about to begin, it’s time to share some updates about Open Context. Warning! Much of this post is pretty geeky. So if you don’t enjoy geeking out on the...
View ArticleResearch outcomes of multi-author collaboration using open data
Q: What do you get when you mix a room full of zooarchaeologists with 200,000 records from seventeen archaeological sites? A. An exercise in herding cats B. A research paper in PLoS ONE C. Both of the...
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3 reasons to visit the Open Context booth at the SAA meeting
At this year’s SAA meeting in San Francisco, Open Context will have it’s first-ever exhibit hall booth! Swing by booth #603 to say hello! If you need a reason to visit, here are three: “I have...
View ArticleOpen Context Upgrade Progress
Last summer, we launched a major programming effort to upgrade Open Context. The upgrade involves completely rewriting all of Open Context’s software so as to more efficiently scale Open Context and...
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Open Context Wins Award for Outstanding Work in Digital Archaeology
The Archaeological Institute of America (AIA) has selected Open Context as the 2016 recipient of its Award for Outstanding Work in Digital Archaeology. The award recognizes “projects, groups, and...
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IMLS Grant Supports Expansion of DINAA
The Institute of Museum and Library Services has awarded the AAI a National Leadership Grant for a project that will expand the Digital Index of North American Archaeology (DINAA). Under the direction...
View ArticleOpen Context & Carleton Prize for Archaeological Visualization
Increasingly, archaeology data are being made available openly on the web. But what do these data show? How can we interrogate them? How can we visualize them? How can we re-use data visualizations?...
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New NSF Awards for DINAA!!
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Archaeology program awarded funds to expand the Digital Index of North American Archaeology (DINAA), under the direction of David G. Anderson (University of...
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DINAA and the Federal Register
Thanks to recent grants, we have started on the next phase of development for the IMLS and NSF funded Digital Index of North American Archaeology (DINAA) project. DINAA aims to aggregate datasets...
View ArticleNEH – Mellon Grant to Federico Buccellati
The Alexandria Archive Institute, the nonprofit organization behind Open Context, is very pleased to announce that Dr. Federico Buccellati will join us in 2017 as a Research Fellow, thanks to the...
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Announcing the Winner of the OpenContext & Carleton Prize for Archaeological...
We are pleased to announce that the 1st OpenContext & Carleton University Data Visualization Prize has been awarded to the ‘Poggio Civitate VR Data Viewer’, created by the team led by Russell...
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Love Your Data Week: Data Rescue
This week is “Love Your Data Week“. The event organizers hope it will raise awareness for the need to better curate research data in order to encourage more collaboration, transparency, and...
View ArticleNew Digital Edition of Pyla-Koutsopetria 1 Links to Data Published in Open...
Just in time for Love Your Data Week, the American Schools of Oriental Research (ASOR) announced today the publication of the provisional digital version of Pyla-Koutsopetria I: Archaeological Survey...
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Project Spotlight: Oracle Bones in East Asia
Open Context Project Spotlight by Hannah Lau Our first project spotlight is the Oracle Bones in East Asia project, by Katherine Brunson, Zhipeng Li and Rowan Flad. The project is a collaboration...
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