Welcome to Open Context
Publishing research data on the Web
Because data are for discovery and inspiration, not just management
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Publish
Make your field documentation and data discoverable and searchable on the Web.
What can you publish?
- Documents, field notes, diaries
- Images and maps
- Vocabularies and typologies
- Artifact and ecofact data
- Stable identifiers for online and offline citation
Explore
Find artifact images for comparison, data for analysis. Learn how others describe their research.
What can you do?
- Use faceted search for informed exploration
- See map-based visualization of data
- Browse pictures and comparative collections
- Download data tables to your desktop
- Discover links and related resources across the web
How it works
- Open Context editors clean your data and organize your content
- Every item receives a unique identifier that allows citation of individual items
- Your data publication receives a DOI
- Linked Open Data approaches tie your content to museum collections and other research data
- Creative Commons licenses facilitate reuse
- All Open Context data publications are preserved with the California Digital Library
Why Open Context
Your research data reflect your expertise and intellectual interests. Treating data only as files to archive can limit the impact of your ideas. Open Context goes beyond the archive by richly integrating the totality of your analyses, maps, media, and journals together so they can support your interpretations. This unlocks and highlights meaningful information and relationships in your data and links your data to the wider world.
Pricing
Open Context charges a one-time fee for data publishing services, including archiving with the California Digital Library.
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Small project
$350Example: a short term-faunal contract
- 1 year project
- 1 author or specialist
- 1 table
- 1-10 document files
- 1-100 images
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Medium project
$1000Example: a ceramics database
- 3 year project
- 1 author or specialist
- 2 tables
- 1-10 document files
- 100-1000 images
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Large project
$5000Example: a multi-year excavation
- 5 year project
- 8 authors or specialists
- 20 tables
- 1-12 document files
- 1000-5000 images
- 1-25 audio or video files
- 5-10 GIS layers
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Custom project
TBDExample: Custom API integration
- We provide consulting and customization for research data management and digital library initiatives. Past projects include NASA, the NSF, the IMLS, and the NEH sponsored initiatives.
