by jfelipe195 | May 20, 2016 | CHI Grad Fellow Post
Introducing BARDSS is a website developed as part of the Cultural Heritage Informatics Initiative, to explains and promote another digital project called BARDSS, the Baptismal Records Database for Slave Societies. BARDSS is intended to be a user-friendly and...
by jfelipe195 | Apr 14, 2016 | CHI Grad Fellow Post
BARDSS will allow scholars of Atlantic slavery to access data on hundreds of thousands of individual African slaves and their descendants who lived and died in Latin American slave societies. The quantity of data in BARDSS means that historians and social...
by jfelipe195 | Mar 22, 2016 | Uncategorized
This post explores the structure of BARDSS and, in particular, how we envision the user interface which might be launched by the end of April, 2016. BARDSS is divided into two main domains: the data entry/administrator interface and the user, search, and visualization...
by jfelipe195 | Feb 10, 2016 | CHI Grad Fellow Post
It is time to show the fields we are using in our database on Baptismal Records for Slave Societies (BARDSS). In previous posts, we pointed out that this database was possible thanks to a project hosted at Vanderbilt University and led by professor Jane Landers....
by jfelipe195 | Feb 9, 2016 | CHI Grad Fellow Post
We discussed in previous posts about the importance of selecting representative fields when we are creating a database based on historical records. It is critical to go back again to this point due to the importance it has while designing a functional...
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