by Jessica Yann | May 12, 2017 | CHI Fellowship Program, CHI Grad Fellow Post, CHI Project Info
The Timeline of Michigan Archaeology has officially launched! You can find it at timemarch.matrix.msu.edu. Overall, I’m pretty happy with how it turned out, and I hope you are too. You can scroll through time, click on individual events (archaeological sites),...
by Jack Biggs | May 12, 2017 | CHI Fellowship Program, CHI Grad Fellow Post, CHI Project Info
I am very proud to announce the launch of J-Skel: The Digital Ages Estimator of Subadult Skeletons at j-skel.matrix.msu.edu! I designed this website with the goal of]-o0 acquainting upper-level undergraduate students and early graduate students of physical...
by Erin Pevan | May 12, 2017 | CHI Fellowship Program, CHI Grad Fellow Post, CHI Project Info
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 Exploring Norway’s National Identity. Project title: Camping,...
by Nikki Silva | May 8, 2017 | CHI Grad Fellow Post, CHI Project Info
I am excited to announce the launch of my 2017 Cultural Heritage Informatics Fellowship project, the Directory of Oneota Scholars. Project URL: dos.matrix.msu.edu Project Overview: Upper Mississippian Oneota sites date from circa AD 1000 to the mid-1700s and are known...
by doyleras | May 5, 2017 | CHI Fellowship Program, CHI Grad Fellow Post, CHI Project Info
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 CHI this year. He was right. Ultimately, we decided that the most...
by doyleras | May 5, 2017 | CHI Fellowship Program, CHI Grad Fellow Post, CHI Project Info
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. HILT and CHI introduced me to the basics of this work, but I would...
by doyleras | May 5, 2017 | CHI Fellowship Program, CHI Grad Fellow Post, CHI Project Info
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 from which the database is built. Here, I try to collect those...
by mahnkes1 | May 5, 2017 | CHI Fellowship Program, CHI Grad Fellow Post
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 development. By following one culture’s narrative, the site tracks...
by Autumn Painter | May 4, 2017 | CHI Grad Fellow Post, CHI Project Info
I am very pleased to announce the launch of Capturing Campus Cuisine (http://earlyfood.campusarch.msu.edu/index.html)! This website showcases a research project co-created by Autumn Beyer and Susan Kooiman as Campus Archaeology Fellows. This project uses food remains...
by swayampr | May 2, 2017 | CHI Fellowship Program, CHI Fieldschool, CHI Grad Fellow Post
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 the material easily accessible (both at the National Archives in...
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