The People Behind Open Context
Open Context is maintained and administered by a dedicated staff with the Alexandria Archive Institute, a not-for-profit organization. Primary field datasets are, by their nature, less heavily "polished" than monographs or journal publications. Nevertheless, we believe editorial and review processes are needed to provide at least a minimum level of vetting for contributions. The AAI staff, led by Dr. Sarah Whitcher Kansa (Executive Director), has editorial control over Open Context and performs this function to make sure that Open Context only publishes datasets from credentialed researchers working on properly permitted projects or professionally curated collections.
In addition, Open Context is under ongoing active software development. The AAI staff coordinates collaboration with the Information and Service Design (ISD) Program at the UC Berkeley School of Information. The ISD Program, directed by Eric Kansa (ISD Executive Director, I-School Adjunct Professor), is responsible for continued software development.
Open Context Editorial Staff:
- Sarah Kansa, Executive Editor
- Francis Deblauwe, Assistant Editor
Open Context Editorial Board:
Under the chairmanship of the Executive Editor, the Editorial Board assists the Executive Editor in developing editorial policies and procedures, in soliciting datasets to be considered for publication in Open Context, and in recommending reviewers for projects that request peer review. The Editorial Board also assists with the annual review of the Editorial Policies and the performance of the editorial staff.
- Levent Atici, Department of Anthropology, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
- Harrison Eiteljorg, II, Center for the Study of Architecture, Bryn Mawr College
- Catherine P. Foster, MicroCommons and Bade Museum
- Sebastian Heath, American Numismatic Society and Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, New York University
- Lori Jahnke, Medical Heritage Library, The College of Physicians of Philadelphia and the University of Pennsylvania
- Eric Kansa, Open Context and UC Berkeley
- Morag Kersel, DePaul University
- Sannie Osborn, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
- Benjamin Porter, University of California, Berkeley
- Yorke Rowan, University of Chicago
- Alexia Smith, University of Connecticut
- Joshua Wells, Indiana University, South Bend
Open Context Developers (Active):
- Eric Kansa, Project Lead
- Jeremy Whitaker, Technology Consultant, New Product Development.
Research and modeling of future service systems - John Ward, Consulting Developer
Open Context Developers (Alumni):
- John Ward, Lead Developer (May - December 2008)
- Sarah van Wart, Penelope Developer, I-School MIMS student
- Mohit Gupta, Omeka plugin Developer, I-School MIMS student
- Noah Kersey, User-Experience, widgets Developer, I-School MIMS student
- Gopal Vaswani, Web-services, database Developer, I-School MIMS student