RE: https://scholar.social/@ekansa/116811273528024594 This essay discusses some of the costs of #LLM #AI driven mass web-scraping and how it impacts #nonprofit #opendata services like Open Context. #datacuration #rdm #datamanagement

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Yay! My essay on the impacts of Large Language Model (#LLM) #AI in #archaeology was just published: https://doi.org/10.11141/ia.71.15 It looks at #bots and mass scraping on the infrastructure supporting #opendata and #openaccess. It also looks at the incentives that encourage the […]

Bill Caraher wrote an interesting blog reaction to our recent paper https://doi.org/10.11141/ia.71.3 about Open Context. He looks at the precarity of so many of our universities and libraries, and looks for alternative, more distributed models for the curation of research data in #archaeology […]

New in IA71: Kansa, E. and Kansa, S. Whitcher 'Open Context in a Changing Context: Data Publishing, Interoperability and Governance' https://doi.org/10.11141/ia.71.3 #Archaeology #datacuration #DataManagement #interoperability #FAIR #CARE #sustainability This paper describes the rationale and […]

Open Context turns 20 this year! To mark the occasion, we finally wrote up a long article that provides details about how we organize and publish data, and how we relate to the broader landscape of data repositories in #archaeology https://doi.org/10.11141/ia.71.3 #datacuration #openscience […]

We're starting 2026 with an experimental implementation of "Really Simple Licensing" (RSL)(https://rslstandard.org/guide/what-is-rsl) to start making explicit expectations for #AI use of the #OpenData that we publish for #archaeology This update isn't very visible to human users of Open Context […]

We wrote up a short end of 2025 recap of Open Context developments. It even references an obscure and totally bizarre 1970's era cartoon! https://alexandriaarchive.org/2025/12/30/open-context-in-2025-and-the-evolving-ai-ecosystem/ Happy New Year everyone! We wish solidarity and hope to our […]

Paulina Przystupa is bringing #archaeology #dataLiteracy instructional materials to the #OER commons! Here's an example of free teaching materials for you to adapt and reuse: https://oercommons.org/courses/cow-culating-your-data-with-spreadsheets-and-r Many more such resources are on their […]

Researchers in #archaeology have worked for many decades to analyze large numbers of #radiocarbon dates from sites across the world. The P3K14C dataset developed by Darcy Bird and colleagues has aggregated and organized over a 166,000 of these dates. See […]

Here's a recent publication in the Journal of Field Archaeology that uses "Ivan Illich’s concept of conviviality to highlight the enriching character of collaborative work". https://doi.org/10.1080/00934690.2025.2528471 Caraher and Pettegrew apply the concept of conviviality to #opendata […]

Do you care about #context? Have you ever wanted to geek out about why #persistent #identifiers (#PIDs) matter in #archaeology ? Look no further than this video where our postdoctoral fellow Dr. Paulina Przystupa leads an interview exploring naming, identity, provenance, and contextual […]

Want to join a learning community for professional development in #data skills for #archaeology? Check out this opportunity led by our postdoctoral fellow Dr. Paulina Przystupa: https://alexandriaarchive.org/2025/07/18/pilot-applications-open-for-the-archaeological-data-literacy-practicum/

Pilot Applications Open for the Archaeological Data Literacy Practicum - The Alexandria Archive Institute

The Data Literacy Program invites anyone interested in archaeology to apply to attend the Archaeological Data Literacy Practicum pilot.

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#Archaeology #DataReuse is in the air! Here's another example of a paper, authored by James Newhard and colleagues, that cites and reuses shared #opendata: https://doi.org/10.3390/heritage8080298 Their paper reuses data from "The Eastern Korinthia Archaeological Survey" (Pettegrew et al 2021): […]

We just saw this paper by Néhémie Strupler that cites #opendata about surveys in #archaeology, including the "Pyla-Koutsopetria Archaeological Project I: Pedestrian Survey" that we published back in 2013. It's a great example of reusing older data for new research! https://doi.org/10.1002/arp.1964

We had a few hours of downtime today because we needed to fix a third-party user interface component that suddenly lost hosting. The updates we made hopefully resolves the issue. Sorry for the interruption in service! #archaeology #opendata

Paulina Przystupa wrote up a quick guide to finding images resources you can reuse for instruction in #archaeology and #culturalheritage. Go take a look! https://alexandriaarchive.org/2025/02/06/where-to-find-reusable-images/ #dataLiteracy #OpenData

Where to find reusable images - 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.

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A quick update. We had a brief downtime because of some server-side software updates and new SSL certificate installation. We're backup with lots of #opendata in #archaeology to use for research and learning!

Interested in teaching #archaeology and some #dataLiteracy ? Need something short and too the point? Check out these recent updates from Paulina Przystupa! https://alexandriaarchive.org/2025/01/24/introducing-data-story-shorts/

Introducing Data Story Shorts - The Alexandria Archive Institute

We're introducing our Data Story Shorts, a new series of smaller, succinct open archaeology educational resources

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Just making sure we have updated a full copy of the data we publish. Internationally. Just in case. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14728229 #OpenData #archaeology

Here's our 2024 overview, with a focus just on our #datacuration efforts. We'll share 2024 retrospectives about our work in professional development and #dataethics shortly. It's been another active year, and we're grateful to our data contributors and our funders for their support and […]

We're busy working on publishing data documenting decades of excavations at Tall al-Umayri (Jordan). It's a multi-period site with most excavated contexts documenting Late Bronze Age through Islamic periods. This link shows figurines […]

Made a small update, publishing excavation data and associated documentation from the 2024 field season at Poggio Civitate (south of Siena, Italy). Here's a map of the new records (and click on the "Item Records" tab to see individual excavation contexts and artifacts) […]

A quick test of this "bridge" to BlueSky set up. Does this #Etruscan ivory (or bone) plaque show up over on that other social media platform? https://opencontext.org/media/6eed2231-a6c1-447e-75b4-2ae2e10452b6 #archaeology

19710101ast.jpg from Europe/Italy/Poggio Civitate/Tesoro Rectangle/Tesoro Rectangle 7/1971, ID:283/PC 19710101

An Open Context "media" record documented by the project: "Murlo"

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OK. Open Context is now also on BlueSky thanks to the Bridgy Fed for BlueSky. https://bsky.app/profile/opencontext.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy #archaeology #opendata #scholarlycoms