by Nikki Silva | Apr 22, 2016 | CHI Fellowship Program, CHI Grad Fellow Post, CHI Project Info
In the past few weeks Autumn and I allowed some of our friends and family, with varying levels of archaeological experience, to view the site to see if it is user friendly. With some of their constructive comments, we first added some language to the intro pop-up to...
by Autumn Painter | Apr 12, 2016 | CHI Fellowship Program, CHI Grad Fellow Post, CHI Project Info
As Nikki and I finish up the final touches on the Mapping Morton Village site, I focused on user interaction and navigation. One aspect of our site that we knew we wanted to include was an automatic (on page-load) popup modal to give an introduction to our site, see...
by Nikki Silva | Mar 30, 2016 | CHI Fellowship Program, CHI Grad Fellow Post, CHI Project Info
During the past few weeks, we’ve focused on getting some technical aspects of the site figured out. I focused on making our images more interactive by giving each one Lightbox attributes, which makes the images/captions larger and ‘pop-out’ from the page. We also gave...
by Autumn Painter | Mar 3, 2016 | CHI Fellowship Program, CHI Grad Fellow Post, CHI Project Info
We have made some major progress since Nikki’s post last week! Not only have we figured out our toggling layer problem, we have placed the interactive map into our website! While we still have some little things to keep working on and adding to the website, our...
by farleyj7 | Feb 5, 2016 | CHI Fellowship Program, CHI Grad Fellow Post
This is my story: Detroit 1967 is in the infancy of development. So, what is it again? It is a multimedia archive and repository that serves to catalog and historicize this canonical and significant time in the 20th century with oral histories from eyewitnesses and...
by Lisa Bright | Jan 28, 2016 | CHI Fellowship Program, CHI Grad Fellow Post
As Katy mentioned in our recent Digital Archaeology Institute blog post, she and I have decided to take our project in a different direction. We originally proposed a project called ossuaryKB, a mortuary method knowledge base. However, as we’ve been working toward the...
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