"[A] free, open access resource for the electronic publication of primary field research from archaeology and related disciplines. Open Context provides an integrated framework for users to search, explore, analyze, compare and tag items from diverse field projects and collections."
While data can be expressed in XML formats and downloaded in bulk, Open Context lacks clear documentation on how to retrieve bulk datasets in an automatable manner.
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