by Ryan Carty | May 6, 2020 | CHI Grad Fellow Post
My CHI project, Volta River Commodities, is built around a dataset that I created from West African colonial trade statistics. Officials from the Gold Coast (what is now Ghana) were stationed at preventative stations along the colony’s borders to control the...
by Jeff Painter | May 6, 2020 | CHI Grad Fellow Post
Autumn Painter and I are happy to announce the official launch of Archaeology 101 (archaeology101.com), a website designed to introduce elementary and middle school students to archaeology and the study of the past. In the website, we use written content and...
by Jeff Painter | Apr 16, 2020 | CHI Grad Fellow Post
In thinking about what we wanted to include in our Archaeology 101 website, Autumn and I wanted to touch on many of the key concepts that guide archaeological research. One of those key concepts is preservation, especially the idea that not everything preserves in the...
by Autumn Painter | Apr 15, 2020 | CHI Grad Fellow Post
As we are nearing the end of the CHI fellowship, Jeff and I are working on final touches to our Archaeology 101 website. Lately, I’ve been working on changing some of our text into ‘Dig Deeper’ popup modals. Instead of having all the information for...
by Ethan Watrall | Apr 6, 2020 | Uncategorized
The Cultural Heritage Informatics Initiative invites applications for its 2020-2021 Cultural Heritage Informatics Graduate Fellowship program. The Cultural Heritage Informatics Fellowships offer MSU graduate students the skills to creatively and thoughtfully apply...
by Jen Andrella | Mar 30, 2020 | CHI Grad Fellow Post
Initially, this project began as an inquiry into the way a digital construction of space can offer new ways on thinking about cultural landscape, spatial politics, and boundaries. Based upon the first chapter of my dissertation, this digital rendition titled,...
by Jeff Painter | Mar 19, 2020 | CHI Grad Fellow Post
As Autumn and I climb closer to a completed initial version of the Archaeology 101 Project website, we wanted to get some feedback from individuals in our target audience. Luckily, we spent our Spring Break with my 10-year-old niece, who was happy to take our...
by Autumn Painter | Mar 18, 2020 | CHI Grad Fellow Post
If you’re not familiar with this project, Archaeology 101 is a collaborative CHI project between myself and Jeffrey Painter. At the launch, this project will be an interactive website that can be used to introduce elementary and middle school students (and other...
by Ryan Carty | Mar 11, 2020 | CHI Grad Fellow Post
A major part of my CHI project is cleaning trade data that I collected from the Public Records and Archives Administration Department (PRAAD) in Accra and Tamale, Ghana that includes paper records of the goods carried by traders across the Volta River. The statistics,...
by Kyeesha M. Wilcox | Feb 29, 2020 | Uncategorized
I recently read an article by Dan Erickson that discussed his experiences being 10 years without a car. Erickson pointed out that not having a car can come with some baggage. In a few examples, Erickson noted that travelling with children and making long distance...
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