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Språklivet: Using Digital Humanities to explore connections between language,...
Since my last blog post, the foundations of digital project planning have been arranged, and the next steps have been taken towards creating the framework for my CHI project. From learning the...
View ArticleMaking Archaeology Accessible
These past few weeks I’ve been pondering what to do for my CHI fellowship project. This has prompted a lot of introspection on what I think is important about digital cultural heritage, along with many...
View ArticleWrestling with The Digital Dissertation in Anthropology
Academia is changing. The old standard 500+ page, written dissertation may become obsolete as new technologies develop and academia starts accepting new models of the dissertation. One model is...
View ArticleProject Musings
As the semester rolls on and we are tasked with trying to visualize our CHI projects, I am feeling a little stressed and inspired, all at the same time! As I’ve said before, my project is going to...
View ArticleTimeline of Michigan Archaeology
I’ve been thinking a lot these last few weeks about my project for my CHI fellowship. As I have mentioned before, I strongly believe in making archaeology accessible to a broad range of people. In my...
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Easy Doesn’t Mean Right
Is the easy way always the best way? During the 1st semester of the fellowship, fellows are responsible for completing a series of tasks focused on certain topics such as project management, web...
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Workshopping: How to Model Variation
As a variationist sociolinguist, my research focuses on the way language varies and changes in communities of speakers and concentrates in particular on the interaction of social factors (such as a...
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Naughty Norris
While my project has changed, I am still trying to figure what the UI of my website will be. City plans tend to be static and insipid unless you are a city planner/architect/urban designer in which you...
View ArticleGliding through time!
Last time I described my idea for my CHI fellowship project, an interactive timeline on Michigan’s Archaeological history. I have had plenty of time to play with this idea and test out several...
View ArticleProject Introduction: Directory of Oneota Scholars
Project Description: My dissertation research focuses on Oneota populations living in Illinois. Artifacts attributed to the Oneota have been found primarily in Iowa, Wisconsin, and Minnesota. Because...
View ArticleRifling through a stack of books: Examining expressions of Norwegian national...
In my last CHI blog post of 2016, I’ll discuss the next steps of my project, expanding from my last post regarding the visualization of cultural heritage and ethnographic topics to the overall scheme...
View ArticlePhase I: Developing my Timeline
Now that the new semester is here, I have finally begin to build my archaeological timeline of Michigan. While not much has changed on the project website, I have been working steadily on collecting...
View ArticleCircumnavigating the choppy waters of evidence gathering in Norwegian...
Recently, as I’ve begun to build my project and begin the first explorations of constructing the corpus of textual evidence through which I will examine national identity in Norway, I’ve been vexed...
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How to Build the Directory of Oneota Scholars
In the past few weeks I have struggled to decide how I will build my database into my github pages site, without learning how to code SQL (structured query language), which would be difficult given the...
View ArticleMaking maps talk…
When I look at a map, I want to know how it relates to the reality of the terrain. One of the things I learned during my Master’s in Urban Design was to use AutoCAD. I enjoyed being able to created...
View ArticleResponsive Rhetoric
This week has been a hard one and the year has had a rocky start for me: I have been sick, and I am concerned about the recent news that overlaps with my community and research. President Trump is...
View ArticleSlowly Building My Website
I’ve done away with Bootstrap and am giving it a go with HTML and CSS. Everything is coming along… slowly but surely. I wish I could globally change my sub-pages, but am not savvy enough to know how....
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Timeglider JS: moving right along
Construction of my timeline project is moving right along. I have almost completely entered in all of the basic events, and have formatted the website into what it will basically look like. It is...
View ArticleAn organized chaos of Ngrams, corpora, and theory
At this point in my project exploring Norwegian national identity in literature over time, there is not much to report other than my continued progress knee-deep into the different pieces of my...
View ArticleWorking out NorrisTown!
In the last month, I have begun putting the innards of my website together. Unsurprisingly it was difficult. But I am happy to report some progress! At this point, I am working towards making a page...
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