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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 #FAIRdata #CAREdata

Open Context in a Changing Context: Data Publishing, Interoperability and Governance

This paper describes the rationale and strategies behind Open Context, an online data publishing service for archaeology. Launched in 2006, Open Context has published over 2 million records from 191 projects and sub-projects, representing the work of more than 1,600 scholars working across the world. As described in this paper, the current shape of Open Context’s data dissemination and curation efforts reflect our attempts to navigate a landscape filled with diverse and evolving challenges. Responses to professional, institutional, and sustainability issues, some of a global character and some of a United States specific character, have helped shape Open Context’s technological and semantic choices. Though focused on United States specific experiences, we hope that this in-depth discussion of how Open Context responded to these multifaceted concerns will help advance international community wide conversations about information architectures, governance, and social factors in archaeological informatics.

Internet Archaeology 5d ago

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

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This paper describes the rationale and strategies behind Open Context, an online data publishing service for archaeology. Launched in 2006, Open Context has published nearly 2.4 million records from 200 projects and sub-projects, representing the work of more than 1,600 scholars working across the world. Open Context's current data dissemination and curation efforts reflect our attempts to navigate a landscape filled with diverse and evolving challenges. Responses to professional, institutional, and sustainability issues, some of a global character and some of a United States specific character, have helped shape Open Context's technological and semantic choices. Though focused on United States specific experiences, we hope that this in-depth discussion of how Open Context responded to these multifaceted concerns will help advance international community wide conversations about information architectures, governance, and social factors in archaeological informatics.

Open Context in a Changing Context: Data Publishing, Interoperability and Governance

This paper describes the rationale and strategies behind Open Context, an online data publishing service for archaeology. Launched in 2006, Open Context has published over 2 million records from 191 projects and sub-projects, representing the work of more than 1,600 scholars working across the world. As described in this paper, the current shape of Open Context’s data dissemination and curation efforts reflect our attempts to navigate a landscape filled with diverse and evolving challenges. Responses to professional, institutional, and sustainability issues, some of a global character and some of a United States specific character, have helped shape Open Context’s technological and semantic choices. Though focused on United States specific experiences, we hope that this in-depth discussion of how Open Context responded to these multifaceted concerns will help advance international community wide conversations about information architectures, governance, and social factors in archaeological informatics.

Dryad Jan 22

Come work at Dryad! We're seeking a full-time remote data curator to join our team.

https://blog.datadryad.org/2026/01/13/data-curator-full-time-remote-u-s/

#opendata #datacuration #datascience #openaccess #openscience

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DamonHD Jan 8

And here is the #data glitch fixing:

https://www.earth.org.uk/note-on-site-technicals-104.html#2026-01-08

#dataCorrection #dataCuration

On Website Technicals (2026-01)

Tech updates: mail chatter but little bufferbloat, new energy series, SSES peak tweak, Zenodo archives, data correction, grid dither, parallelisation...

Dryad Dec 3

Researchers choose Dryad for all kinds of reasons. One of the biggest is our curatorial team.

Expert data curators screen each submission and work with researchers to ensure high-quality, FAIR-compliant data publications.

https://blog.datadryad.org/2025/07/15/dryad-data-curators/

#opendata #openscience #openaccess #datasharing #datacuration #openresearch

Dryad Oct 29

Read the Dryad community update for the latest advances in Dryad data curation, publication, and preservation.

https://blog.datadryad.org/2025/10/29/dryad-community-update-october-2025-highlights/

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#opendata #openacces #openscience #data #datapublishing #datacuration #science #scholcomm #scholcomms

Dryad Oct 9

Why do researchers trust Dryad with their data?

Dryad is more than a repository. It's a best-in-class data curation, publication and preservation service known for its discoverability, ease, and hands-on researcher support by our experienced data curators.

#opendata #openaccess #openscience #biology #data #dataset #datacuration #dryad #opendata

GESIS Sep 3, 2025

#DataCuration #DataQuality
Out now: Insa Bechert, Kerstin Beck, and Ivet Solanes Ros: Caring for Data’s Soul –The Development of a Curation Impact Factor to Pinpoint the Effects of Data Curation Activities on Data Quality, in: International Journal of Digital Curation2025, Vol. 19, Iss.1, pp.21, DOI: https://ijdc.net/index.php/ijdc/article/view/1030/75310.2218/ijdc.v19i1.1030.

Curation matters for data quality! Hardly any survey data user would disagree with this statement. But how much of a difference it makes is difficult to count.