Open Context

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Open Context (archaeology / cultural heritage data publisher) Storage

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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
Price	none stated
Per-object cap	not stated
Retention	not stated
Egress	Free and open: content is published under CC-BY or CC0 with no paywall and no metering, and is archived with leading digital libraries.
Identity	institution (placeholder) inferred from the category 'academic'; the source record states no identity cost, so this is a class assumption, not evidence
Binding	none no constraint of a named kind was recorded; the verdict rests on the quota sentence rather than on a named limit
Interface	rest rest
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.
Composes with	Unlimited projects, but each is editorially co-produced, so throughput is bounded by the editorial team, not by quota.
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.
Notes	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.
Evidence rung	reported One page read moves it to documented.
Checked	2026-10-21 (inherited); stale on 2026-11-04

Evidence (2)

date	source	what it proved
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)

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  "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"
 }
}

Unknown or withheld values (7)

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$.free_tier.notes process
$.identity_cost.kind identity-defaulted
$.per_object_cap.notes not-extracted
$.per_object_cap.stated not-extracted
$.retention.notes not-extracted
$.retention.stated not-extracted