Archives for July 2025| The Alexandria Archive Institute
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, but previous experience with archaeology and role-play is not required. This […] The post A Glorious Mystery: Rosaries and Robbery appeared first on The Alexandria Archive Institute.| The Alexandria Archive Institute
In this Data Story Short, "Learn to Conduct a Basic Archaeological Survey", you'll conduct an archaeological-style survey of your neighborhood and use those observations to cultivate your data literacy.| The Alexandria Archive Institute
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 […] The post How to use TASL attribution appeared first on The Alexandria Archive Institute.| The Alexandria Archive Institute
The Data Literacy Program of the Alexandria Archive Institute / Open Context invites applications from anyone interested in archaeology for a one-month program to develop their data literacy skills during October 2025. This pilot version of the Archaeological Data Literacy Practicum will focus on developing cohort members’ data literacy skills and receiving feedback on the […] The post Pilot Applications Open for the Archaeological Data Literacy Practicum appeared first on The Alexandria ...| The Alexandria Archive Institute
Check out our tips on accurately using and attributing images from Wikimedia Commons by exploring their metadata!| The Alexandria Archive Institute
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. Vetting and assembling lists is hard work! We take time to digest and marinate about each […]| The Alexandria Archive Institute
Hello July! We’re about six months into the Digital Data Stories (DDS) project here at the Alexandria Archive Institute (AAI). So, it’s time to update y’all on our program. This quarter, our efforts centered on three goals. These were: to continue developing the publications we started, to have a possible sustainability partner evaluate the data […]| The Alexandria Archive Institute
Welcome to another Sourcing Series segment presented by the Data Literacy Program (DLP) of the Alexandria Archive Institute. In this how-to article, we discuss how we’ve used the New York Public Library’s Digital Collections as a source for images to add to our Digital Data Stories and other materials. This is another follow-up article to […] The post How to use the Digital Collections of the NYPL appeared first on The Alexandria Archive Institute.| The Alexandria Archive Institute
Learn about how we've used subscription-based sources for (re)usable images in the work of the Data Literacy Program.| The Alexandria Archive Institute
This exercise is best suited to those with an interest in defining data, understanding archaeological data, or discussing the impacts of archaeological data in modern society. Users should have some familiarity with group discussion or book clubs, but previous experience with data or archaeology is not required.| The Alexandria Archive Institute
If you missed the us at the 2025 SAAs check out this article recapping the cool things we noticed at the meetings.| The Alexandria Archive Institute
Check out the DLP’s Spring 2025 Reference Guide, which introduces you to all our Digital Data Stories and Data Story Shorts!| The Alexandria Archive Institute
Learn about some places to find reusable images online and that we'll provide more detailed information on each source in the future.| The Alexandria Archive Institute
We’ll explain how these guides cultivate data literacy in the future (when we test Of Mycenaean Men) and for today, we’re focusing on a couple issues we had when assembling A Pun Goes Here. The first was that The Alexandria Archive Institute staff love science fiction and fantasy. While this is not the worst problem, it meant that we almost created a “fiction” book club that was just a Sci-Fi/Fantasy one.| The Alexandria Archive Institute
Learn how the DLP found the books we recommend in our book club Data Story, "A Pun Goes Here: The AAI Read Fiction Book Club"| The Alexandria Archive Institute
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded the Alexandria Archive Institute a grant for the project Open Context: Sustaining a Collaborative Data Infrastructure for Archaeology. The award from the NSF’s Archaeometry competition provides $270,834 over five years to develop and expand the critical technological infrastructure and editorial processes that support Open Context’s data publishing services. […]| The Alexandria Archive Institute
In this Sourcing Series segment we introduce our readers to the concept of licenses and copyright for creative materials.| The Alexandria Archive Institute
Here about the Data Literacy Program's time at TAG Santa Fe chatting about Digital Data Stories, making connections, and pedagogy!| The Alexandria Archive Institute
In this quarterly report, the Data Literacy Program discusses sharing "Stop and Smell...the Material Culture", other Data Stories, & more!| The Alexandria Archive Institute
