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New post: AI, Access, and Acknowledgement https://introspectivedigitalarchaeology.com/2026/01/09/ai-access-and-acknowledgement/ A number of archaeological/humanities websites are reporting problems with the sheer volum #DisruptiveTechnology artificial intelligence writing

AI, Access, and Acknowledgement - Introspective Digital Archaeology

A number of archaeological/humanities websites are reporting problems with the sheer volume of traffic caused by web crawlers belonging to the various large language model (LLM) generative artificial intelligence systems like ChatGTP, Gemini, CoPilot, and Claude, for instance. Their impact can have the same effect as a Distributed Denial of Service attack, overwhelming the systems.

Introspective Digital Archaeology - Understanding the computational turn in archaeology

Open Context 6d ago

We're starting 2026 with an experimental implementation of "Really Simple Licensing" (RSL)(https://rslstandard.org/guide/what-is-rsl) to start making explicit expectations for #AI use of the #OpenData that we publish for #archaeology

This update isn't very visible to human users of Open Context, but Web Crawlers should see additional #metadata regarding AI uses.

At the same time, we updated the network security measures that help protect from abusive levels of AI bot traffic.

#digitalhumanities #openscience

What is RSL? | RSL: Really Simple Licensing

The open content licensing standard for the AI-first Internet

Open Context Dec 30

We wrote up a short end of 2025 recap of Open Context developments. It even references an obscure and totally bizarre 1970's era cartoon!

https://alexandriaarchive.org/2025/12/30/open-context-in-2025-and-the-evolving-ai-ecosystem/

Happy New Year everyone! We wish solidarity and hope to our colleagues and community in 2026!

#archaeology #digitalhumanities #opendata #openscience

Open Context Sep 30

Pleiades gazetteer Sep 30

Last Week in Pleiades (22-29 September 2025)

Last week the Pleiades editorial college published 7 new and 210 updated place resources, reflecting the work of Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott, Greta Hawes, Brady Kiesling, Eleftheria Konstantinidou, Gabriel Mckee, Rosemary Selth, and R. Scott Smith, as well as contributors to the World Historical Gazetteer, Wikidata, and Wikipedia.

View a list of all new and modified place resources, complete with titles, descriptions, credits, change summaries, and links to the individual gazetteer entries on the blog at https://pleiades.stoa.org/news/blog/last-week-in-pleiades-22-29-september-2025

Open Context Sep 25

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 way, so stay tuned!!

Open Context Sep 9

Archaeology News

Sep 9

Ancient Egyptian rock art reveals early kingship, divine claims, and violent power

Rock inscriptions recently studied in the desert east of Aswan are shedding new light on how Egypt’s earliest rulers exercised authority over 5,000 years ago. The inscriptions, carved into stone surfaces in the Wadi el Malik region and its side valleys, contain hieroglyphs, animal symbols, and scenes of violence...

More info: https://archaeologymag.com/2025/08/egyptian-rock-art-reveals-early-kingship/

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#archaeology #rockart #ancientegypt

Open Context Sep 4

Pleiades gazetteer Sep 4

Export Updates 2025-09-04:
Pleiades gazetteer of ancient places

10 new and 39 updated places.

1. Downloads: https://pleiades.stoa.org/downloads

2. pleiades.datasets: https://github.com/isawnyu/pleiades.datasets:

"main" branch:

7940ab62 - updated json
no change: rdf/ttl
ad8a0507 - updated gis package
b5d43fbf - updated data quality
5895f483 - updated bibliography
e5a9591b - updated indexes
2e926703 - updated sidebar

3. pleiades-geojson: https://github.com/ryanfb/pleiades-geojson:

e133d941 - updated geojson and names index

4. pleiades_wikidata: https://github.com/isawnyu/pleiades_wikidata/:

e738d925 - updated pleiades wikidata

Data for download

Get quarterly numbered releases, as well as regular shapshots of all Pleiades resources, available in multiple formats including JSON, CSV, KML, and RDF.

Pleiades: a gazetteer of past places

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Open Context 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.

https://opencontext.org/query/?cat=oc-gen-cat-c14-sample&proj=197-p3k14c&type=subjects&geodeep=9#tab=0/ovgrd=oc/zm=2/ov=sqr/bm=MapBox_Dark/aq=197-p3k14c/lat=25.2/lng=12.7

#archaeology

Open Context: Search (Query) Results

Open Context enables you to search within and between archaeological datasets contributed by researchers working across the world.

Open Context 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: https://opencontext.org/projects/cdd78c10-e6da-42ef-9829-e792ce55bdd6

We published this dataset in Open Context as #opendata, and cross-referenced these records with site records, gazetteer records, and other scientific data.

Open Context Aug 20

Pleiades gazetteer Aug 19

The Pleiades website is now back in operation.

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