I was pleased to find the following note in my email Thursday last from the AIA….

Previous winners of the award may be found here. Speaking for everyone on the ODATE team, we are honoured to join their company! Earlier projects that have been honoured are becoming part of the entire ecosystem of digital archaeology infrastructure, and I’m pleased that our part aimed at the teaching side of that balance has been recognized. Part of our digital pedagogy uses reproducible computational notebooks that integrate data, code, and analysis. My ambition is that through ODATE we normalize and regularize this kind of reproducible research in archaeology more generally.

I’d also like to thank my collaborators and co-writers on this project who have put up with me these past two years – Neha Gupta, Michael Carter, and Beth Compton. When the going got rough, other folks jumped in to help us complete the work – Jolene Smith, Andreas Angourakis, Andrew Reinhard, Lorna Richardson, Kate Ellenberger, Zack Batist, Joel Rivard, Ben Marwick, and Rob Blades. These folks come from all walks of archaeological life, from the library to the lecture hall, from grad school to professional archaeology. They are all wonderful scholars!

So this award is shared across a community of practice: thank you all.

I should note that this project was funded by eCampusOntario, ‘the online hub for learners and educators across Ontario’, and I’m grateful to them, and the EDC at Carleton, for supporting this somewhat different approach to what an online textbook could be.

…oh, and ODATE itself? Well, the url for it is out there, in the aether; we’re still trying to sand off some of the rougher corners, fill in some of the bits and pieces. You can find it easily enough (ah well, here it is), but know that the official ‘ta da!’ is coming.  But here are all of the computational notebooks that you can run in your browser, right now.

Thank you everyone at ODATE for coming along on this adventure, and thank you AIA!