{"id":15086,"date":"2016-06-29T13:12:27","date_gmt":"2016-06-29T17:12:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/?p=15086"},"modified":"2024-07-03T19:53:13","modified_gmt":"2024-07-03T23:53:13","slug":"open-context-carleton-prize-archaeological-visualization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/2016\/open-context-carleton-prize-archaeological-visualization\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Context &#038; Carleton Prize for Archaeological Visualization"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Open Context &#038; Carleton Prize for Archaeological Visualization\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>Increasingly, archaeology data are being made available openly on the web. But what do these data show? How can we interrogate them? How can we visualize them? How can we re-use data visualizations?<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019d like to know. This is why we have created the Open Context and Carleton University Prize for Archaeological Visualization and we invite you to build, make, hack, the Open Context data and API for fun and prizes.<\/p>\n<p>Full details are listed below and on the <a href=\"http:\/\/ux.opencontext.org\/2016\/06\/20\/open-context-carleton-prize-for-archaeological-visualization\/\">Open Context website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3>Who Can Enter?<\/h3>\n<p>Anyone! Wherever you are in the world, we invite you to participate. <b>All entries will be publicly accessible and promoted via a context gallery on the Open Context website<\/b>.<\/p>\n<h3>Sponsors<\/h3>\n<p>The prize competition is sponsored by the following:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Alexandria Archive Institute (the nonprofit that runs Open Context)<\/li>\n<li>The Digital Archaeology at Carleton University Project, led by <a title=\"Shawn Graham's profile\" href=\"https:\/\/electricarchaeology.ca\/about\/\">Shawn Graham<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Categories<\/h3>\n<p>We have prizes for the following categories of entries:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Individual entry: project developed by a single individual<\/li>\n<li>Team entry: project developed by a collaborative group (2-3 people)<\/li>\n<li>Individual student entry: project developed by a single student<\/li>\n<li>Student team entry: project developed by a team of (2-3) students<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Prizes<\/h3>\n<p>All prizes are awarded in the form of cash awards or gift vouchers of equivalent value. Depending on the award type, please note currency:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Best individual entry: $US200<\/li>\n<li>Best team entry (teams of 2 or 3): $US300 (split accordingly)<\/li>\n<li>Best student entry: $C200<\/li>\n<li>Best student team entry (teams of 2 or 3): $C300 (split accordingly)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We will also note \u201cHonorable Mentions\u201d for each award category.<\/p>\n<h3>Entry Requirements<\/h3>\n<p>We want this prize competition to raise awareness of open data and reproducible research methods by highlighting some great examples of digital data in practice. To meet these goals, specific project entry requirements include the following:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The visualization should be publicly accessible\/viewable, live on the open Web<\/li>\n<li>The source code should be made available via <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/\">Github<\/a> or similar public software repository<\/li>\n<li>The project needs to incorporate and\/or create open source code, under licensing approved by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gnu.org\/licenses\/license-list.en.html\">Free Software Foundation<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>The source code must be well-commented and documented<\/li>\n<li>The visualization must make use of the Open Context API; other data sources may also be utilized in addition to Open Context<\/li>\n<li>A readme file should be provided (as .txt or .md or .rtf), which will include:\n<ul>\n<li>Instructions for reproducing the visualization from scratch must be included<\/li>\n<li>Interesting observations about the data that the visualization makes possible<\/li>\n<li>Documentation of your process and methods (that is to say, \u2018paradata\u2019 as per the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.londoncharter.org\/fileadmin\/templates\/main\/docs\/london_charter_2_1_en.pdf\">London Charter, section 4<\/a>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>All entries have to meet the minimum requirements described in \u2018Entry Requirements\u2019 to be considered.<\/p>\n<p>Entries are submitted by filling a Web form (<a href=\"http:\/\/goo.gl\/forms\/stmnS73qCznv1n4v1\">http:\/\/goo.gl\/forms\/stmnS73qCznv1n4v1<\/a>) that will ask you for your particulars and the URL to your \u2018live\u2019 entry and the URL to your code repository. You will also be required to attest that the entry is your own creation.<\/p>\n<h3>Important Dates<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Closing date for entry submissions: <b>December 16, 2016<\/b><\/li>\n<li>Winners announced: <b>January 16, 2017<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Criteria for Judging<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Potential archaeological insight provided by the visualization<\/li>\n<li>Reproducibility<\/li>\n<li>Aesthetic impact<\/li>\n<li>Rhetorical impact<\/li>\n<li>Appropriate recognition for\/of data stakeholders (creators and other publics)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Attention will be paid in particular to entries that explore novel ways of visualizing archaeological data, or innovative re-uses of data, or work that takes advantage of the linked nature of Open Context data, or work that enables features robust\/reproducible code for visualizations that could be easily\/widely applied to other datasets.<\/p>\n<h3>Judges<\/h3>\n<p>The judges for this competition are drawn from across the North America:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mun.ca\/geog\/people\/faculty\/ngupta.php\">Neha Gupta<\/a> \u2013 Memorial University<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/matthewdharris.com\/\">Matt Harris<\/a> \u2013 Cultural Resources Department at AECOM<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/harvardartmuseums.academia.edu\/TheresaHuntsman\">Theresa Huntsman<\/a> \u2013 Harvard Art Museums, Sardis Expedition<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/alexandriaarchive.org\/about\/people\/\">Sarah Kansa<\/a> \u2013 Alexandria Archive Institute<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/faculty.washington.edu\/bmarwick\/\">Ben Marwick<\/a> \u2013 University of Washington<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/meyersemery.wordpress.com\/\">Kathryn Meyers<\/a> \u2013 Michigan State University<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/liberalarts.utexas.edu\/classics\/faculty\/profile.php?id=atr253\">Adam Rabinowitz<\/a> \u2013 University of Texas at Austin<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.iusb.edu\/sociology-anth\/faculty\/wells.php\">Josh Wells<\/a> \u2013 Indiana University South Bend<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/sbsuny.academia.edu\/JesseWolfhagen\">Jesse Wolfhagen<\/a> \u2013 Stony Brook University<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Resources<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Programming Historian <a href=\"http:\/\/programminghistorian.org\/\">http:\/\/theprogramminghistorian.org<\/a><\/li>\n<li>A digital history workbook <a href=\"http:\/\/workbook.craftingdigitalhistory.ca\">http:\/\/workbook.craftingdigitalhistory.ca<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Digital History Methods with R \u2013 Lincoln Mullen <a href=\"http:\/\/lincolnmullen.com\/projects\/dh-r\/\">http:\/\/lincolnmullen.com\/projects\/dh-r\/<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Open Context API documentation <a href=\"http:\/\/opencontext.org\/about\/services\">http:\/\/opencontext.org\/about\/services<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Eric Kansa (Open Context\u2019s primary developer) will be happy to assist (and help troubleshoot! Email: <a href=\"mailto:kansaeric@gmail.com\">kansaeric@gmail.com<\/a> or Contact via <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/ekansa\/open-context-py\/issues\">GitHub<\/a>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Increasingly, archaeology data are being made available openly on the web. But what do these data show? How can we interrogate them? How can we visualize them? How can we re-use data visualizations? We\u2019d like to know. This is why we have created the Open Context and Carleton University Prize for Archaeological Visualization and we [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[43,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-news"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15086"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15086\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15146,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15086\/revisions\/15146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}