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The Alexandria Archive Institute is a non-profit technology company that preserves and shares world heritage on the Web, free of charge. Through advocacy, education, research, and technology programs like Open Context, we pioneer ways to open up archaeology and related fields for all. Opening the Past, Inspiring the Future WHAT WE DO: OPEN TECHNOLOGIES, ADVOCACY, […]

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AAI welcomes new board member, Leigh Lieberman
Sep 29, 2026 · original
The Alexandria Archive Institute is delighted to welcome Dr. Leigh Lieberman to our Board of Directors . Leigh brings a deep understanding of the AAI’s work, having served as our Director of Professional Development since 2021. In her work with the AAI and Open Context, Leigh launched the Digging Up Data program ; directed Networking Archaeological Data and Communities , an Institute for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities ; and directed Disciplinary Improvements for Past Global Change Research: Connecting Data Systems and Practitioners , a Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable Open Science Research Coordination Network funded by the National Science Foundation . Leigh is currently the Digital Project Specialist in the Department of Art & Archaeology at Princeton University. A Roman archaeologist, she designs programs arou
Archaeological Data Literacy Practicum 2025 Recap
Sep 15, 2026 · original
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 help you run your own version or incorporate its activities into your own course! The ADLP was a great chance to teach archaeological data literacy using a mixed media approach. While you can read the details for each week in the syllabus, archived here , an important feature was that the practicum alternated synchronous weeks with asynchronous weeks to demonstrate data literacy through the content and structure of the course. Here’s a sample of the archived version of the syllabus on Zenodo. For our synchronous weeks one, three, and five, sch
How to find books about archaeological data literacy
Aug 25, 2026 · original
Learn more about how we developed Of Mycenaean Men 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. Reading articles, books, and blogs is a great way to learn and was key to developing the Data Literacy Program . It helped us clarify the values for the program, learn about current research, and demonstrated just how many books about data literacy there are out there. As we began keeping a list of the most important ones, the idea for a book club Digital Data Story stuck in our minds. That original list eventually became Of Mycenaean Men . Some of the first books that we decided would be part of the club were Wea
How to find awesome archaeological data literacy related comics
Aug 4, 2026 · original
Have you ever wanted to use comics to learn about archaeology but weren’t sure how? Here, we explain where to start by describing the development of Tome Reader , an open educational resource (OER) that uses comics to cultivate archaeological data literacy. Highlighting comics through Tome Reader , was a great chance for the Data Literacy Program (DLP) team to celebrate the awesome work comics creators do to portray archaeological concepts and the past in different ways. Whether the art and plot are fantastical or realistic, comics are a great literacy tool and, when combined with archaeological material, they offer an opportunity to develop your archaeological data literacy. Comics combine layout, text, and images to create structured observations about the world. Sometimes creators work hard to portray real places accurately, while others use their imaginations to illustrate entirely f
New articles by AAI staff
Jun 26, 2026 · original
Check out both of these open access (free to read and share) journals for new articles by AAI staff. The end of June has been a great time for articles by Alexandria Archive Institute (AAI) staff, with new free to read and share publications in the open access journals Advances in Archaeological Practice and Internet Archaeology . The May 2026 (Volume 14 – Issue 2) edition of Advances in Archaeological Practice (an open access publication of the Society for American Archaeology) includes a Digital Review about archaeological data literacy. Postdoctoral Researcher Paulina Przystupa used data collected by the Data Literacy Program , a Mellon Foundation and National Endowment for the Humanities project of the AAI, to examine expectations for archaeology education. Check it out here: “ Data Literacy in Archaeological Education ” (available open access for free reading and sharing). In additi
AAI & Open Context – Highlights from 2025
Dec 31, 2025 · original
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Open Context in 2025 and the Evolving AI Ecosystem
Dec 30, 2025 · original
Open Context has grown into one of the world’s largest open access databases of archaeological data. It now houses nearly 2.4 million records from over 200 data publications, including 215,000 images, maps, documents, 3D models, and GIS layers. This growth has required us to make important performance improvements so that the user interface has acceptable speed and responsiveness. Backend database updates enable Open Context to continue to grow and respond to searches and other queries quickly and efficiently. Needless to say, the growth of AI has led to profound changes in the information ecosystem of the Web. Many users now discover content from Open Context through using ChatGPT and other AI services. In that sense, AIs sometimes act like search engines by directing users to relevant and unique information in Open Context. The Greedy from the 1977 film Raggedy Ann & Andy: A Musical Ad
Four-week Pilot Practicum Distills Lessons from AAI’s Data Literacy Program
Dec 29, 2025 · original
The AAI’s Data Literacy Program (DLP) had a busy year! Check out this data set that lists all the Digital Data Stories , invited workshops, videos , and other works that the program developed since its establishment in 2020. In 2025, we shared more educational resources in our Data Story Shorts collection, released an interview Eric Kansa in which we discussed data citation in archaeology , and presented the resources from program at the Society for American Archaeology conference, the World Archaeological Congress, and the Second Conference on Public Archaeology. The year wrapped up with a crowning achievement of the program –the Archaeological Data Literacy Practicum (ADLP) — a pilot program that distills the best of the DLP’s resources into a short course that can be tailored by others to teach data literacy skills into the future. Postdoctoral researcher Paulina created and taught th
Ctrl + Alt + Digital Humanities: Digging Up Data at ASOR 2025
Dec 23, 2025 · original
By Brigid Clark and Lauren McCormick The beginning of the Digging Up Data session at the 2025 annual meeting of the American Society of Overseas Research (ASOR) looked a bit different than other sessions. Participants, who had gathered to present their work (in a session aptly called Digging Up Data: A Showcase of Ongoing Digital Scholarship Projects ), weren’t sitting silently, reviewing notes and sipping coffee, as is typical at the 8AM sessions. Instead, members stood, greeting each other, and were excitedly chatting– a testament to the community and mentorship built over the past year. The session was the cumulation of a year of meetings, where participants developed personal projects and gained skills in digital literacy. Members had joined the 2025 cohort of Digging Up Data with different motivations. Some wanted to become more familiar with new digital tools, others wanted to beco
FAIR+CARE Cultural Heritage Network Workshop #2
Dec 20, 2025 · original
The FAIR+CARE Cultural Heritage Network held their second all-hands workshop in October 2025 with 42 participants from various sectors including CRM, universities, state archaeologists, Tribal archaeologists, museums, libraries, data publishers, and repositories. Since 2023, the IMLS-funded Network has been working online and through in-person workshops to develop, disseminate, and promote ethical good practice guidance and digital data governance models to reconcile the apparent social and technical contradictions in the data life cycle. That this workshop took place at all was worth celebrating! In April of 2025, the project suffered a major blow with the abrupt and unfounded termination of all IMLS projects and the shuttering of the IMLS itself. We are grateful to all the project participants for their flexibility as we explored what the future of the project would look like with no f

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