by zaidshan | May 14, 2014 | Uncategorized
The Cuboriente website project is dedicated to a digital image mapping of Africa-inspired religio-cultural heritage in the eastern, Oriente region of Cuba. Motivated by the opportunities of the Cultural Heritage Informatics Initiative (CHI), Cuboriente developed from...
by zaidshan | Feb 6, 2014 | CHI Fellowship Program, CHI Project Info
My Cultural Heritage Informatics Initiative project is a digital mapping that focuses on contributions from Cuba’s African heritage to socio-cultural spaces and places in the island’s eastern, Oriente region. Oriente has had an historical African presence dating back...
by zaidshan | Dec 18, 2013 | CHI Articles & Discussions
One of the distinguishing, if not alarming qualities of our current historical moment is that cultural change occurs so rapidly and dramatically that one generation can scarcely recognize the next. Digital innovations of even the last twenty years have so forcefully...
by zaidshan | Oct 17, 2013 | CHI Fellowship Program
I’ve always been one of those students who had trouble taking notes from readings. I’ve tried a variety of strategies with varying degrees of success and most of these revolved around ways to write notes on paper, Word documents, or annotate hard copy texts...
by zaidshan | Sep 27, 2013 | CHI Fellowship Program
My name is Shanti Zaid and I am very happy to have been selected as one of this year’s Cultural Heritage Informatics fellows. Since I have little background in the digital world beyond a lay familiarity with the internet and a mild case of digitized article hoarding,...
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