by Titi Kou | Mar 25, 2019 | CHI Grad Fellow Post
As a second-year PhD student, I have been trying to balance myself between three roles: a student, a teaching assistant, and a researcher. Frankly speaking, it has not been easy for me. Attending courses and teaching everyday have taken the majority of my time....
by plemonsa | Mar 20, 2019 | CHI Fellowship Program, CHI Grad Fellow Post
I think there is a point in time that every novice reaches in technical projects when they wonder..will I actually successfully complete this project? This is my current mental state in my CHI project....
by Ryan Carty | Mar 16, 2019 | Uncategorized
On March 8th and 9th, Michigan State University hosted a conference titled Enslaved: Peoples of the Historic Slave Trade. The conference brought together scholars using databases to research the lives of individuals connected to slavery and the slave trade. The list...
by TaylorPanczak | Mar 1, 2019 | CHI Grad Fellow Post
For this month’s blog post, I am going to provide a quick update on my project. I have updated the artifact pages and created markers for the highland sites on my map. Also the front-end framework for loading my 3D models onto an HTML page is fully functional...
by franc230 | Feb 26, 2019 | Uncategorized
My project entails the creation of a digital library for the management and public outreach of archaeological cultural heritage. The initial work towards this goal has entailed the building a metadata scheme. That is, finding the right data to describe data. There are...
by dglovsky | Feb 19, 2019 | CHI Grad Fellow Post
By any normal standard, I am a relatively tech-savvy person. When it comes to programming, my experience is…minimal. My HTML skills are relatively new and underdeveloped, although growing which each attempt to do something new. My project for CHI focuses on oral...
by Ryan Carty | Feb 13, 2019 | Uncategorized
A central component of my CHI project is working with historical data. The creation of a database from historical documents is a long and tedious process, so I have decided to use one already available online. A group of economic historians published the African...
by TaylorPanczak | Feb 11, 2019 | CHI Grad Fellow Post, CHI Project Info
Introducing my project for the 2018/2019 CHI fellowship: Peruvian Origins Informatics Project. With this project I want to build an interactive, multi-component website that will be accessible to non-academics and will be valuable to future researchers. I want to make...
by Ryan Carty | Jan 31, 2019 | Uncategorized
Europe’s exploitation of Africa is a common narrative in African history. Scholars continue to use archival records to investigate the movement of enslaved persons and commodities from Africa to the Americas and Europe. In the past ten years, scholars have also...
by franc230 | Jan 30, 2019 | Uncategorized
The baffling amount of data in archaeological collections makes their management a daunting task. Subsequently, material culture can sit on shelves for years, collecting dust long after removing the original dirt of excavation. My project for the Cultural Heritage...
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