by Jessica Yann | Apr 3, 2017 | CHI Fellowship Program, CHI Grad Fellow Post
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 always the highlight of my year. Visiting a new city, trying new...
by nelso663 | Mar 31, 2017 | CHI Grad Fellow Post
Last week I was able to attend the annual conference for the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) in Baltimore (proceedings here). One talk struck me as particularly relevant to cultural heritage informatics. The authors explored humanities scholarship...
by doyleras | Mar 31, 2017 | CHI Fellowship Program, CHI Grad Fellow Post, CHI Project Info
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 Owen Falls Dam for which I have been able to digitize data (I am...
by Erin Pevan | Mar 29, 2017 | CHI Fellowship Program, CHI Grad Fellow Post, CHI Project Info
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 of the content. In the last month, I’ve...
by Nikki Silva | Mar 24, 2017 | CHI Fellowship Program, CHI Grad Fellow Post, CHI Project Info
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 corpus to gather information on their current research interests,...
by mahnkes1 | Mar 24, 2017 | CHI Grad Fellow Post
When working to persuade an audience, one assumes to mostly wrestle with whatever’s rendered on the other side of the code. The archaic mess of symbols tucked under the rug of GitHub files is kept cleanly from view—or especially interest—from the community I work...
by doyleras | Mar 20, 2017 | CHI Fellowship Program, CHI Grad Fellow Post, CHI Project Info
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 creation of a database manageable within the time parameters of the...
by doyleras | Mar 20, 2017 | CHI Fellowship Program, CHI Grad Fellow Post
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 that is supported by the US federal government and is therefore...
by Jack Biggs | Mar 17, 2017 | CHI Fellowship Program, CHI Grad Fellow Post, CHI Project Info
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 taken to another page corresponding to age estimation methods for that...
by Jessica Yann | Mar 16, 2017 | CHI Fellowship Program, CHI Grad Fellow Post, CHI Project Info
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 I could use help on. The first is coming up with a flashier...
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