Open Context (archaeology / cultural heritage data publisher)
opencontext.orgAcademicstorage/open-contextJSONcomparereport an errorprovider JSON
- Free allowance
- No published byte cap — 'Essentially, we provide publication services for the vast bulk of media that typically cannot fit into a conventional book or article publication.' Volume is negotiated with editors, not metered.
- Verdict
- fails: quotathe free allowance is too small to matter
- Cost
- free tier
- Identity
- institution?placeholder, not evidence; card unknown, phone unknown
- Binding limit
- noneno named constraint binds
- Evidence
- reported2 sources; a third party said so
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-11-05checked 2026-10-21 (inherited); stale on 2026-11-05
| Free tier | No published byte cap — 'Essentially, we provide publication services for the vast bulk of media that typically cannot fit into a conventional book or article publication.' Volume is negotiated with editors, not metered. unit mixed; metered on unstated |
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| Price | none stated |
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| Identity | institution (placeholder) inferred from the category 'academic'; the source record states no identity cost, so this is a class assumption, not evidence |
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| Egress | Free and open: content is published with no paywall and no metering, and is archived with leading digital libraries. |
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| Per-object cap | not stated |
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| Retention | not stated |
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| Interface | rest rest |
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| Tooling | Read side is a real API plus OAI-PMH and DOI resolution; the WRITE side is deliberately not programmatic — 'The first step is to contact the Open Context editorial team... we think it's important to start with a personal contact rather than an impersonal upload button.' No upload endpoint. |
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| Composes with | Unlimited projects, but each is editorially co-produced, so throughput is bounded by the editorial team, not by quota. |
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| Reliability | Genuinely open door ('Anyone can publish their research with Open Context — from individuals to teams') but human-in-the-loop by design, so it is an archive of last resort, not storage. |
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Evidence 2
| date | source | what it proved |
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| 2026-10-21 | www.opencontext.org/about/publishing | 'Anyone can publish their research with Open Context — from individuals to teams'; 'The first step is to contact the Open Context editorial team' |
| 2026-10-21 | opencontext.org/about/ | publishing and preservation service description |
More fields 1
| dead end | {"failure_class": "egress","why": "No published byte cap — 'Essentially, we provide publication services for the vast bulk of media that typically cannot fit into a conventional book or article publication.' Volume is negotiated with editors, not metered.","retry_when": null,"first_recorded": "2026-10-21"} |
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Unknown values 4
- per object cap notes: the field may be stated in a source that was not read
- per object cap stated: the field may be stated in a source that was not read
- retention notes: the field may be stated in a source that was not read
- retention stated: the field may be stated in a source that was not read