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Research data curation, Python, Archaeology. Opinions shared here are my own, not of my employers or funders. Already burned by commercial social media. While nice now, I don't trust this place. I'll mainly be here on Mastodon: @ekansa@scholar.social

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ekansa.bsky.social @ekansa.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Chis Nicholson (Executive Director of Digital Antiquity / tDAR) and I wrote an article with a critique of the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation (ACHP) use of #AI for #culturalHeritage conservation policy. See: mydigitalpublication.com/publication/... #LLM #AIagents #Democracy #archaeology
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The SAA Archaeological Record • September 2026, Volume 26 Number 4 • Page 19
The SAA Archaeological Record
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ekansa.bsky.social @ekansa.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
#archaeology #openaccess
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Eric Kansa @ekansa.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/08/2026
Well shoot. Google Scholar isn't indexing my paper about #AI in #Archaeology -- more than one 1 month since publication (doi.org/10.11141/ia.71.15). If I was a paranoid, I'd wonder if Google was trying to inhibit the discoverability and circulation of a paper very critical of #LLMs. I […]
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Open Context @opencontext.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/03/2026
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 doi.org/10.11141/ia.71.3 #datacuration #openscience […]
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Internet Archaeology @internetarchaeology.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 17/03/2026
New in IA71: Kansa, E. and Kansa, S. Whitcher 'Open Context in a Changing Context: Data Publishing, Interoperability and Governance' doi.org/10.11141/ia.71.3 #Archaeology #datacuration #DataManagement #interoperability #FAIR #CARE #sustainability This paper describes the rationale and […]
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ekansa.bsky.social @ekansa.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Dealing with US federal funding for #research, #education, or anything else worth doing now feels like dealing with Darth Vadar.
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darth vader says " i am altering the deal pray i don t alter it any further "
Alt: darth vader says " i am altering the deal pray i don t alter it any further "
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Freddie_Rose🌹 🇨🇦 ⚕️ (Dr. F. Rogers) @freddierose.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
#Protest
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David Leavitt @davidleavitt.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
Happy Easter
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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 18/04/2025
I went to El Salvador hoping to meet with Kilmar and check on his well-being, and I had the chance to do that last night. Our courts have been clear: this was an ILLEGAL abduction. I’m speaking now about my meeting with Kilmar and our work to bring him home:
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Van Hollen Holds Media Availability at Dulles Upon Return from El Salvador
YouTube video by Senator Chris Van Hollen
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Van Hollen: And it's also important that people understand this case is not just about one man. It's about protecting the constitutional rights of everybody who resides in the United States of America.
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Jason Rhody @jasonrhody.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
"Last week we learned that six of our active NEH awards—totaling $789k in unspent funds—were immediately “terminated” by the so-called Department of Government Efficiency. Below you can read about the projects that were affected." -- Mullen
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Jason Rhody @jasonrhody.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
I think this is amazing, full stop. I do worry that backfilling cuts at the federal level will lead to *disingenuous* arguments that this demonstrates the we don’t need fed funding after all (& I know funders know this is a danger). We most be prepared to dismantle such arguments immediately.
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Jason Rhody @jasonrhody.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
We were at our local theatre last night & cheered when they announced the production was supported by the National Endowment for the Arts. NEA, NEH, IMLS & so many other sources of positive government support permeate our lives. The loss of these agencies is a travesty.
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Eric Kansa @ekansa.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/04/2025
We just received a heartbreaking email from a colleague at a Federal granting agency. It was full of professionalism, dignity, and devotion to mission despite the cruelty and illegality of the regime's destruction of their agency. Their patriotism and service must be recognized. We're going to […]
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Jason Rhody @jasonrhody.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
More important reporting. And thanks to Steve Kidd and the entire @humanitiesall.bsky.social team for their vocal advocacy.
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Jason Rhody @jasonrhody.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Can I just say (acknowledging I’m being petty here), the NEH termination letter reads exactly like some dipshit DOGE bro used a chatbot to finish an assignment they didn’t understand. I know the quality of our federal colleagues, and they sure as hell didn’t write it.
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ekansa.bsky.social @ekansa.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Given this rate of collapse, when do reach the era of spray-painting our mouths with chrome and throwing ourselves onto post-apocalyptic traffic in the name of Immortan Joe? 2 months?
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a man is wearing goggles and smoking a cigarette
Alt: mad-max warboy
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Jason Rhody @jasonrhody.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
A few tips for NEH grantees: 1) if you've spent money on an awarded grant but have not yet drawn down the funds, make sure to submit the paperwork to drawn down funds ASAP. 2) the NYTimes article suggests that "DOGE" might cancel awards. If you receive an email from DOGE cancelling your NEH award,
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Andrew D Thaler @drandrewthaler.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Breaking Thurmond's record while talking about the Civil Rights leaders being called home is an incredible moment in America. This is one for the history books.
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Cory Booker. That’s the post. 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
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ekansa.bsky.social @ekansa.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
I'm relieved the respected #journalist #JeffreyGoldberg handled this craziness with such professionalism. But I'm disappointed that #Buffy Summers wasn't invited into the #NationalSecurity #groupchat. She made it pretty clear that she expects to be in the loop about this kind of thing.
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a woman is holding a cupcake and saying if the apocalypse comes beep me
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
The TESLA (a/k/a "TESLER") TAKEDOWN is working... WORLDWIDE! Turns out people really resent an unelected weirdo running our Government & creating economic chaos. Hit Elmo where it really hurts: in his big, fat wallet. If we #TankTesla, It's Ex-X! (a/k/a Twitter) #WinWin Visit www.takedowntesla.com
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Governor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov · 03/02/2025
Elon Musk is a terrible president.
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Rachel Cohen Booth @rcobooth.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
this was successful “resistance” — the thing we’re being repeatedly told is done, over, can’t work, never to return
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Sen. Adam Schiff @schiff.senate.gov · 31/01/2025
The White House says: - 25% tariffs on Mexico and Canada What Americans feel: - Fewer options at the store - Higher prices for all of us, especially on food He promised to cut costs. Now he's implementing a Trump Tax on our families. The chaos continues.
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ekansa.bsky.social @ekansa.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
We traded liberty for cheap eggs, and now we have neither.
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ekansa.bsky.social @ekansa.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Since conspiratorial tropes seem so important in effective propaganda, how about some counter-propaganda? "What's Trump trying to hide by muzzling the #CDC? Is he trying to cover-up the #H5N1 situation?"
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Open Context @opencontext.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/01/2025
Just making sure we have updated a full copy of the data we publish. Internationally. Just in case. doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14728229 #OpenData #archaeology
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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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ekansa.bsky.social @ekansa.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
Now with the #archaeology, #opendata, #research tags truncated from the original #Mastodon post.
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ekansa.bsky.social @ekansa.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
Feeling more and more like December of 2019, though the pace and severity of things will no doubt differ. History never exactly repeats. #h5n1
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Eric Kansa @ekansa.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/12/2024
California seems to be the epicenter of #h5n1 evolution in mammals. Yikes. I hope the state commits to vaccine development ASAP, since I bet the incoming federal administration won't be too helpful.
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 13/12/2024
PLEASE do not feed raw milk to your cats. Or your kids. Or yourself. #H5N1
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Tom Elliott @paregorios.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
hcommons.social/@paregorios/... #archaeology
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So, the new Santa Maria del Focallo shipwreck is dated to "5th and 6th centuries B.C." but among the "trove of anchors several feet from the wreckage" were two "made from iron and likely originated in...
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Francis Deblauwe 𒉺𒊏𒀭𒋛𒄑 𒊌𒉡 @fdeblauwe.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
I attended the Digital Ancient Near Eastern Studies Conference online today! Great initiative! Thanks for organizing. digitalpasts.github.io/DANES2024/ Lots of stuff you guys would like probably: @ekansa.bsky.social @paregorios.bsky.social #digitalhumanities #openaccess #ANE
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ekansa.bsky.social @ekansa.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Well let's see, 500+ cattle herds in California have #h5n1, we just had a major #earthquake, and there's a #tsunami warning. And it isn't even noon yet.
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Open Context @opencontext.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/12/2024
Here's an example of one of those figurines from Tall al-Umaryri: opencontext.org/media/4cf7a39a-d360… #archaeology
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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 · 05/12/2024
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. #archaeology
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Open Context @opencontext.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/12/2024
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 · 05/12/2024
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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Kathleen Fitzpatrick @kfitz.info · 05/12/2024
Or in a non-scammy, truly non-profit repository like KC Works! works.hcommons.org
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KC Works
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Eric Kansa @ekansa.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/12/2024
Watching #H5N1 news like it's late December of 2019. If you know what I mean.
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Open Context @opencontext.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/12/2024
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 · 04/12/2024
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? opencontext.org/media/6eed2231-a6c1… #archaeology
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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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Arches Project @archesproject.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
A new Arches demo experience is now available! Built on Arches v7.5, this demo is based on the Arches for HERs application, with sample data from Historic England's GLHER Online database, and includes an example of Arches customizable step-by-step Workflows for all to explore.
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Open Context @opencontext.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/12/2024
OK. Open Context is now also on BlueSky thanks to the Bridgy Fed for BlueSky. bsky.app/profile/opencontext.hcommo… #archaeology #opendata #scholarlycoms
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Tom Elliott @paregorios.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Hey yinz, @opencontext.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy has bridged its social media account in the Fediverse into Bluesky. Let the #FollowFrenzy begin.
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petersuber @petersuber.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 25/11/2024
I'm talking with a colleague who gave the usual reasons for staying on #X / #Twitter while I gave the usual reasons for moving to #Mastodon. I found myself making this argument too: I want #SocialMedia to live on #OpenInfrastructure, just as I want research to live on open infrastructure […]
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Eric Kansa @ekansa.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/11/2024
We seem to be living in the timeline of William Gibson's novel "The Peripheral".
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Eric Kansa @ekansa.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/11/2024
Is there any downside in having a public resource like Open Context register data to the NSF's "National AI Research Resource" (NAIRR) program? I know from our server logs we're already massively crawled by commercial bots (including bots explicitly for AI). We also get referring links from […]
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