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Open Context @opencontext.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy · 13d

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 […]

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Open Context @opencontext.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy · Sep 2

Here's a visualization of the #OpenData radiocarobon records from this dataset. You can filter and explore these records by geography, sample materials, biological taxonomy, and more […]

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Open Context @opencontext.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy · Sep 2

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 […]

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Open Context @opencontext.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy · Aug 14

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 […]

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Open Context @opencontext.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy · Jul 31

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 […]

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Open Context @opencontext.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy · Jul 31

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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Open Context @opencontext.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy · Jul 31

#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): […]

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Open Context @opencontext.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy · Jul 25

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

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Open Context @opencontext.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy · Apr 1

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

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Open Context @opencontext.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy · Feb 7

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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Open Context @opencontext.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy · Feb 5

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!

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Open Context @opencontext.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy · Jan 24

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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Open Context @opencontext.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy · Jan 23

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

Open Context Database SQL Dump

Open Context (https://opencontext.org) publishes free and open access research data for archaeology and related disciplines. An open source (but bespoke) Django (Python) application supports these data publishing services. The software repository is here: https://github.com/ekansa/open-context-py The Open Context team runs ETL (extract, transform, load) workflows to import data contributed by researchers from various source relational databases and spreadsheets. Open Context uses PostgreSQL (https://www.postgresql.org) relational database to manage these imported data in a graph style schema. The Open Context Python application interacts with the PostgreSQL database via the Django Object-Relational-Model (ORM). This database dump includes all published structured data organized used by Open Context (table names that start with 'oc_all_'). The binary media files referenced by these structured data records are stored elsewhere. Binary media files for some projects, still in preparation, are not yet archived with long term digital repositories. These data comprehensively reflect the structured data currently published and publicly available on Open Context. Other data (such as user and group information) used to run the Website are not included. IMPORTANT This database dump contains data from roughly 190+ different projects. Each project dataset has its own metadata and citation expectations. If you use these data, you must cite each data contributor appropriately, not just this Zenodo archived database dump.

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Open Context @opencontext.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy · Dec 19

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 […]

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Open Context @opencontext.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy · Dec 5

It's mind boggling to consider that every archaeological site has such complexity. And we rarely have this level of access to the detailed documentation that describes these sites.

It will be a huge long-term challenge to effectively make (re)use of this detailed documentation too.

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Open Context @opencontext.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy · Dec 5

We just finished uploading scans of the forms used to document stratigraphic units (called "loci" at this site).

Each stratigraphic unit links to other stratigraphic units. All together, this adds up to a vast and complex history of deposition at this "tell" site […]

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Open Context @opencontext.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy · Dec 5

Here's an example of one of those figurines from Tall al-Umaryri:

https://opencontext.org/media/4cf7a39a-d360-4c22-9225-2e1c1b9e7f4e

#archaeology

B160014E - 66013 from Asia/Jordan/Tall al-Umayri/Field J/Square 6K56/Locus J-6K56-000/B160014

An Open Context "media" record documented by the project: "Madaba Plains Project-`Umayri"

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Open Context @opencontext.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy · Dec 5

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 […]

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Open Context @opencontext.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy · Dec 4

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) […]

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Open Context @opencontext.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy · Dec 4

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

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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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Open Context @opencontext.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy · Dec 4

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

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