Slowly
I wrote this in January and never published it, so here goes anotha try 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...
View ArticleGetting Back to the Basics: Reducing the Content of My Site
My original vision for this project was to make a website showcasing the work I have been doing in collaboration with my colleagues in the Sociolinguistics Lab at MSU. We’ve been documenting speech in...
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Project Update!
Greetings all! I don’t have many exciting new developments to report on my CHI project, so instead I thought I would share with you some screen shots of where I am at right now, and some of the pieces...
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Making headway…finally
The past few months have been incredibly frustrating as I made little headway in creating my clickable SVG of a juvenile skeleton using Raphaël.js. By clicking on a certain bone, the user would be...
View ArticleDirectory of Oneota Scholars: Tracking Them Down
My last blog post addressed the criteria of inclusion I am using for the Directory of Oneota Scholars. As I was collecting names of scholars, I had to eventually stop and begin working through this...
View ArticleArchivaton
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-38324045 I attended the event described in the article above. The general purpose of this series of events is to preserve scientific environmental knowledge...
View ArticleSQL
I have not updated the blog about my project in a while. Its scope has been pared down significantly – as Ethan has said from the start that it would. The main change is that in order to make the...
View ArticleSnags and setbacks won’t slow me down
News flash: sometimes your project doesn’t go the way you expect it to! This month’s blog will be more of a project update, focusing on the logistics of my project’s progress rather than the specifics...
View ArticleConnecting SQL and PHP
I have now created a database of tables about the production and consumption of hydroelectricity in the final decade of colonial rule in Uganda and Kenya, i.e. the years after the construction of the...
View ArticleDigital Heritage from Vancouver
This past week I attended the Society for American Archaeology conference in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. This international conference highlights the newest archaeological research, and is...
View ArticleChallenging times…
As my website is coming together, I thought it was a good time to reflect on the things came to be. When I first thought of working on Norris, I had grandiose plans about how the website would come...
View ArticleWhat makes an archaeological site significant?
The semester is winding down, and my project is beginning to take on its final form. I’ve been finalizing text, references, and glossary terms, and basically making sure the content is what I want...
View ArticleCreating your project’s identity: What’s in a name?
For my last CHI blog pre-project launch post for April, I want to include a short discussion of the thought process and decision making that goes into creating a title for a digital project. It has...
View ArticleMy MySQL table
Using WampServer, I produced an SQL database of information regarding the production and consumption of hydroelectricity in several towns in Uganda and Kenya from 1954-63. I chose this dataset because...
View ArticleReflections on Earle Draper and the Making of Company Towns
In working on the website and uploading materials, it struck me that the houses primarily material authored by Earle Draper. Most of that was not by design but primarily due to the fact that most of...
View ArticleLaunch of Immigrant Imprints!
I’m happy to announce the launch of my project, Immigrant Imprints: Filipinx Spaces in Michigan. The site serves as a response to and exploration of the diminishment of cultural spaces amidst urban...
View ArticlePartial connections in ways of knowing: Technocrats vs. The Database
In some of my earlier blogging in CHI, I reflected on the extent to which a digital database would reflect the ways of thinking and knowing that were used by the people who produced the data points...
View ArticleMapping?
In this post, I reflect on the possibility of building a spatial map of the information that is contained in the database. The initial challenge is to learn how to build such a map using HTML and Java....
View ArticleLaunching the database
Before embarking on this project, Dr. Watrall said that making a database in SQL and taking online with PHP would involve too steep a learning curve to climb within the context of my participation in...
View ArticleLaunch Post – Camping, Landlig, Mjølner, Saklig: A Project Exploring Norway’s...
Greetings to all digital cultural heritage enthusiasts! Today I formally announce the launch of my 2017 Cultural Heritage Informatics Fellowship project: Camping, Landlig, Mjølner, Saklig: A Project...
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