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Launching the Oak Bluffs Historic Highlands Map

by Jeffrey Burnett | May 6, 2022 | CHI Fellowship Program, CHI Grad Fellow Post, CHI Project Info

Today is launch day and I am sharing completed my mapping project for the CHI 2021 – 2022 fellowship. For my Oak Bluffs Historic Highlands project, I have built the framework for a map that uses publicly available deed documents to represent the history of...

Memory Mapping

by Jeffrey Burnett | Apr 4, 2022 | CHI Fellowship Program, CHI Grad Fellow Post, CHI Project Info

As the work progresses on the framework for my map of property ownership in the Highlands area of Oak Bluffs, I can now start focusing the ways in which additional types of data will be added to the map. While the structure of the map will be the spatialized deed and...

Good code cannot save bad planning: Working with leafletjs plugins

by Jeffrey Burnett | Feb 18, 2022 | Uncategorized

In a previous post I discussed my experiences learning to code for my Oak Bluff’s Mapping Project on leafleft.js and the issue of finding examples that help fix specific problems. In this post I want to share a bit more on the topic of learning to code,...

Project: The Oak Bluffs Highlands History Map and the Issue of Too Many Coding “Solutions”

by Jeffrey Burnett | Jan 22, 2022 | CHI Grad Fellow Post, CHI Project Info

For my fellowship project, I will be creating an interactive, web-based map showing the history of property ownership in the Highlands area of Oak Bluffs, Massachusetts, on the island of Martha’s Vineyard. Oak Bluffs was and still is a summer resort community...

Contemplating Crowdsourcing in Digital Cultural Heritage

by Jeffrey Burnett | Dec 10, 2021 | Uncategorized

In this blog post I will explore some of the views on the use of crowdsourcing for digital projects in the humanities. I am interested this this literature because for my future dissertation project I am considering crowdsourcing data from the local community. In...
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