Alexandria Archive Institute

Alexandria Archive Institute 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

nderstanding about the human past is locked in the Ivory Tower, behind expensive pay-walls. The public’s access is mostly limited to commercially and politically distorted and sensationalized fragments. These barriers impoverish learning and public understanding, and stifle discovery and progress. Our work aims to free this knowledge from academic, technological, and commercial silos. Open access to scientific literature and data powers learning. It improves our understanding of who we are, and can inspire us to shape better futures as global citizens. Eliminating access barriers to research creates more collaboration toward the greater goal of discovery. We connect with researchers on global initiatives such as sharing standards, technology, data, good practices, as well as ideas. In fact, we often fund other open access initiatives with our grant funding. We’ve been fortunate to receive funding from private donors as well as organizations including the U.S. National Endowment for the Humanities, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, Google, and the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation. With the goal of expanding our efforts even further in 2017, we invite you to share in our mission by making a 100% tax-deductible contribution of any amount. Thank you for your interest in our organization. Please visit our website alexandriaarchive.org to learn more about our work.

FAIR+CARE Cultural Heritage Network Workshop #2The FAIR+CARE Cultural Heritage Network held their second all-hands work...
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....

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....

New Article about the FAIR+CARE Cultural Heritage NetworkThe September 2025 issue of The SAA Archaeological Record (the ...
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).

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...

Check our page at: https://www.youtube.com/-thealexandriaa8713There you can learn more about about getting to know you...
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

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...

If you enjoyed our posts and during you should check out of "It’s All in the Wrist (Bones): Archaeological Dat...
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

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.

As an optional extension of the Archaeological Data Literacy Practicum (ADLP) pilot, on Saturday 22 November 2025 9am - ...
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.

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.

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 o...
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

It's Day 1 of the our celebration!Searching for today’s prompt , we found this jaw bone"unninDSC00686 from Euro...
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.
Find more inspiration at https://doi.org/10.6078/M7N877XP

This image depicts a horse mandible aka jaw bone from an archaeological context with a scale.

It's Day 28 of the our celebration and we have a today's image. Using today's prompt hashtag we found these ph...
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.

Find more inspiration at https://doi.org/10.6078/M7N877XP

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