by Nikki Silva | Jan 31, 2017 | CHI Fellowship Program, CHI Grad Fellow Post, CHI Project Info
In the past few weeks I have struggled to decide how I will build my database into my github pages site, without learning how to code SQL (structured query language), which would be difficult given the amount of time I have to complete this project. I was struggling...
by Jack Biggs | Jan 30, 2017 | Uncategorized
Apologies for my tardiness in posting! It’s been an incredibly hectic semester so far and time keeps on slipping away! Since my project is focused on subadult skeletal age estimation, I’ve really started going through the literature and publications over the...
by nelso663 | Jan 29, 2017 | CHI Grad Fellow Post
My project involves working with some of the technologies of the semantic web. The main idea of the semantic web (or web 3.0, and in Berners-Lee’s language the “read+write+execute” phase that will supersede the “read-only” phase of web...
by mahnkes1 | Jan 29, 2017 | CHI Grad Fellow Post
During the break, I started gathering data for Filipino-American settlement and representation in Michigan, and my first stop was the city of Detroit. Michigan is already a difficult state for this type of search because many of the first wave immigrants came through...
by Erin Pevan | Jan 28, 2017 | CHI Fellowship Program, CHI Grad Fellow Post, CHI Project Info
Recently, as I’ve begun to build my project and begin the first explorations of constructing the corpus of textual evidence through which I will examine national identity in Norway, I’ve been vexed with an epistemological challenge of using such evidence in my corpus...
by Jessica Yann | Jan 27, 2017 | CHI Fellowship Program, CHI Grad Fellow Post, CHI Project Info
Now that the new semester is here, I have finally begin to build my archaeological timeline of Michigan. While not much has changed on the project website, I have been working steadily on collecting the necessary data to include. You are welcome to view/keep tabs on...
by Autumn Painter | Jan 25, 2017 | CHI Grad Fellow Post, CHI Project Info
Over the Winter break and into the beginning of this semester I have been working on building and editing the framework for the Capturing Campus Cuisine website on the early food practices at Michigan State University. Following discussions with Susan Kooiman, my...
by Erin Pevan | Dec 27, 2016 | CHI Fellowship Program, CHI Grad Fellow Post, CHI Project Info
In my last CHI blog post of 2016, I’ll discuss the next steps of my project, expanding from my last post regarding the visualization of cultural heritage and ethnographic topics to the overall scheme and vision of my own project on Norwegian national identity. As with...
by Nikki Silva | Dec 16, 2016 | CHI Fellowship Program, CHI Grad Fellow Post, CHI Project Info
Project Description: My dissertation research focuses on Oneota populations living in Illinois. Artifacts attributed to the Oneota have been found primarily in Iowa, Wisconsin, and Minnesota. Because of the variety of Oneota sites and the different geographic areas...
by nelso663 | Dec 10, 2016 | CHI Grad Fellow Post
My project will consist of a deep dive into the representation of heritage objects in CIDOC-CRM and will result in an interactive presentation of case analyses of CIDOC-CRM object descriptions. I’m interested in exploring the operations through which an object...
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