About Open Context
Open Context publishes data contributed by researchers through a process that reviews, edits, and aligns data to standards
Researchers submit data for Open Context publication that document excavations, surveys, and the analyses of collections
Publishing with Open Context organizes and integrates data, media, documents, geospatial data with authorship
Every record in Open Context has its own stable URL, making it easy to reference and cite very specific items of data
Open Context links data to other resesearch collections on the Web, making data easier to discover, integrate and use
Open Context's particiption in Linked Open Data enables sophisticated, cross-disciplinary informatics based research
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To preserve irreplaceable data, Open Context archives data with the University of California, California Digital Library
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Data Sharing as Publication
The research community increasingly expects access to high-quality data. Open Context specializes in the review, documentation, and publication of research data contributed by scholars. Open Context data publications can complement and enhance conventional publications through comprehensive dissemination and preservation of rich digital data and media. Major aspects of publishing with Open Contexct include:
- Excavation, survey and collections data published in a citable venue
- Data safeguarded and preserved though archiving with the University of California's California Digital Library
- Expert editorial and peer review of your project's data
- Tools to track citations of your data along with your other publications
- All data published free and open access for barrier-free search, discovery and analysis
- Data aligned to key "Linked Open Data" standards to facilitate future analyses, data integration, visualization, and understanding
