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CHI Fellow Introduction: Sara Bijani
I am a historian of the contemporary United States, with research interests in the areas of gender and political culture. This fellowship presents an exciting opportunity to learn methodological...
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A Quick Trick: How to view the HTML coding for any website
For this week, we had a challenge assigned to create a website. There were several stipulations, the website needed to contain a landing page, several subpages (one for each team member), and a way to...
View ArticleDon’t fear the database: SQL v. SPARQL
As I previously mentioned in my introduction blog, this year my CHI project is directly related to the project myself and Katy Meyers Emery are working on for the Digital Archaeology Institute....
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The New Philadelphia Augmented Reality Tour App
This past week I attended the Midwest Archaeological Conference in Milwaukee, WI. One of the talks I found very interesting and relevant to our CHI Fellowship was by Christopher Fennel of University of...
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Failing While Folding; Or, Let’s Hope this Project Works!
In starting the “building” phase of my project, I am reminded of Pearce Durst’s recent blog essay on “Inventing the Digital Humanities through Freirian Praxis.” In it, Durst uses the metaphor of...
View ArticleMapping Morton Village – A Digital Archaeological Experience
What is the Morton Village Site? Why did we choose to use it for our fellowship project? Our project will be focused around a single archaeological site, Morton Village. The Morton Village site is a...
View ArticlePolitics and Form : The Armed Services Editions
As a CHI Fellow, I’m undertaking a large-scale text analysis of the Armed Services Editions, a collection of novels sent to US Soldiers during WWII to “fight the war on ideas,” to consider issues of...
View ArticleChanging Directions – Introducing TOMB
As Katy mentioned in our recent Digital Archaeology Institute blog post, she and I have decided to take our project in a different direction. We originally proposed a project called ossuaryKB, a...
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This is my story: The beginning of reclaiming the past to look to the future
Detroit Rebellion 1967 Source Google Images This is my story: Detroit 1967 is in the infancy of development. So, what is it again? It is a multimedia archive and repository that serves to catalog...
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Mapping Morton Village: User Interaction
We have made some major progress since Nikki’s post last week! Not only have we figured out our toggling layer problem, we have placed the interactive map into our website! While we still have some...
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Mapping Morton Village: Lightbox Images and Captions
During the past few weeks, we’ve focused on getting some technical aspects of the site figured out. I focused on making our images more interactive by giving each one Lightbox attributes, which makes...
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Mapping Morton Village: Introduction Modal and User Navigation
As Nikki and I finish up the final touches on the Mapping Morton Village site, I focused on user interaction and navigation. One aspect of our site that we knew we wanted to include was an automatic...
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Mapping Morton Village: Finalizing the Site and Pushing to New URL
In the past few weeks Autumn and I allowed some of our friends and family, with varying levels of archaeological experience, to view the site to see if it is user friendly. With some of their...
View ArticleCall for 2016-2017 Cultural Heritage Informatics Graduate Fellowship...
The Cultural Heritage Informatics Initiative invites applications for its 2016-2017 Cultural Heritage Informatics Fellowship program. The Cultural Heritage Informatics Fellowships offer MSU graduate...
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The Launch of Mapping Morton Village
We are very pleased to announce the launch of the Mapping Morton Village interactive digital map, which provides information on archaeology in general, as well as information on the ongoing Morton...
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Cultural Heritage Informatics as Connected Learning? Modes, Meaning, and...
Last night, my collaborator and I were featured on the Google+ program Teachers Teaching Teachers to talk all things sound, community literacies, and connected learning. Across the larger broadcast we...
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Namibia Digital Repository: Official Launch!
This post officially declares the project launch of the Namibia Digital Repository! For the past year, I have been slowly digitizing and piecing together a Namibian Studies online digital library. Far...
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The Launch and (Re)Emergence of #HearMyHome
Originally conceived of as an “everyday” cultural heritage informatics project interrogating how contemporary youth write community through and with sound. #hearmyhome inquires how hearing difference...
View ArticleMorton Village Continued: Updating the main website
This summer, Nikki Silva and I are working on updating the main website for the Morton Village Research project: mortonvillage.anthropology.msu.edu. This website/blog was created in 2008 and is in need...
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Morton Village: Final Update
Over the summer, we have been working on making some major changes to the main Morton Village research page: mortonvillage.anthropology.msu.edu. While there are a few more things we would like to...
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