A non-profit technology company that preserves and shares scientific research data. We pioneer ways to open up access to archaeology and related fields.
The Alexandria Archive Institute is a non-profit technology company that preserves and shares archaeological and related data on the web, free of charge. Through advocacy, education, research and technology programs like Open Context, we pioneer ways to make primary research open to everyone. Archaeological findings play a pivotal role in our development as a society but the vast majority of our u
12/31/2025
AAI & Open Context – Highlights from 2025
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12/20/2025
FAIR+CARE Cultural Heritage Network Workshop #2
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....
FAIR+CARE Cultural Heritage Network Workshop #2 - The Alexandria Archive Institute 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....
12/18/2025
New Article about the FAIR+CARE Cultural Heritage Network
The September 2025 issue of The SAA Archaeological Record (the magazine of the Society for American Archaeology) contains a short article about the IMLS-funded FAIR+CARE Cultural Heritage Network. Check it out here: "The FAIR+CARE Cultural Heritage Network: Advancing Practices to Support Ethical Data Management in Archaeology" (available open access).
New Article about the FAIR+CARE Cultural Heritage Network - The Alexandria Archive Institute The September 2025 issue of The SAA Archaeological Record (the magazine of the Society for American Archaeology) contains a short article about the IMLS-funded FAIR+CARE Cultural Heritage Network. Check it out here: “The FAIR+CARE Cultural Heritage Network: Advancing Practices to Support Ethical D...
12/11/2025
Check our page at: https://www.youtube.com/-thealexandriaa8713
There you can learn more about about getting to know your when writing interpretation, the basics of , or how to find and online . My favorite is "What do you mean 'I don't have a question'?" where I explain how to formulate short, answerable, questions based on existing data sets. Watch it now at: https://youtu.be/DGSEaefeTIw?si=9ghbtJAwpVDzbKP2
What do you mean "I don't have a question" ? This video discusses the fundamentals of creating an answerable question based on an existing data set, was produced for week four of the Archaeological Data...
12/04/2025
If you enjoyed our posts and during you should check out of "It’s All in the Wrist (Bones): Archaeological Data as Artistic Inspiration" one of our
Grab your , creative prompt , and Open Context project search at: https://doi.org/10.6078/M7N877XP
It's All in the Wrist (Bones): Archaeological Data as Artistic Inspiration - The Alexandria Archive Institute This exercise is best suited to those with an interest in public archaeology, the dynamics of ritual behavior, or the archaeology of central China. Users should have a basic understanding of archaeological data types, but little previous experience with archaeology is required.
11/19/2025
As an optional extension of the Archaeological Data Literacy Practicum (ADLP) pilot, on Saturday 22 November 2025 9am - 11am US Mountain Time I'll be hosting a mini-conference for a couple of the ADLP's scholars.
At this , pilot scholars will share their final projects and get to practice their presentation skills so please sign up at:
https://forms.gle/Egyd3jmhm21wRUAHA
to join us and the Practicum pilot's scholars.
Archaeological Data Literacy Practicum pilot Mini Conference Join us for a mini-conference where the pilot cohort of the Archaeological Data Literacy Practicum will present their final projects. The conference will be on 22 November 2025 from 9:00 am - 11:00 am United States Mountain Time.
11/03/2025
Thank you so much for joining us this October as we posted all our for the month. If you'd like to see them all in one place, check out our with all the sticky notes and the full . Or check out the full Digital Data Story over at: https://doi.org/10.6078/M7N877XP
11/03/2025
It's Day 1 of the our celebration!
Searching for today’s prompt , we found this jaw bone
"unninDSC00686 from Europe/Iceland/Vatnsvik, Þingvallavatn/2018-84-003"
by Albína Hulda Pálsdóttir in The animal bones found in Vatnsvik, lake Þingvallavatn, Iceland published on (https://opencontext.org/.../e4a2e33e-9eb1-4b2a-a292...) / CC BY.
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This image depicts a horse mandible aka jaw bone from an archaeological context with a scale.
10/31/2025
It's Day 31 of the our celebration!
Searching for today’s prompt , we found
"Image: 200 from Asia/Iraq/Nimrud/North-West Palace/Room B/Panel 23" by Global Heritage Fund in Iraq Heritage Program published on Open Context (https://opencontext.org/media/a22ceb4d-2f98-ec4c-b3e5-e7072dc927dc)/ CC BY.
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10/30/2025
It's Day 30 of the our celebration!
Searching for today’s prompt , we found
"19313 from Europe/Italy/Gabii/Area B/Unit 1327" by Rachel Opitz, Marcello Mogetta, and Nicola Terrenato in The Gabii Project published on Open Context (https://opencontext.org/media/cd191118-d5ec-4fd2-b127-6641fccd2a86) / CC BY.
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10/29/2025
It's Day 29 of the our celebration!
Searching for today’s prompt or , we found
"1747_2 from Europe/Greece/Corinthia/EKAS Region/Gonia/DU 1747" by David K. Pettegrew, Timothy E. Gregory, Daniel J. Pullen, Richard Rothaus, and Thomas F. Tartaron in The Eastern Korinthia Archaeological Survey published on Open Context (https://opencontext.org/media/372a942d-fe3b-4b5f-9438-a70c3a985d5d)/ CCBY.
Find more inspiration at https://doi.org/10.6078/M7N877XP
10/28/2025
It's Day 28 of the our celebration and we have a today's image. Using today's prompt hashtag we found these photographs of necklaces that, based on their provenience, are grave goods.
They were recovered from around the neck of someone who lived around 2500 BC – 2050 BC in Ancient Kerma "13-5776-id1080-1089.png from Africa/Sudan/Kerma/Item 1080" by Museum of Fine Arts, Boston in The Amulets of the Kerma Culture published on Open Context (https://lnkd.in/gwKwr-KD) / CC BY-NC Photograph © Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
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