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...
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