by Jeff Painter | Mar 19, 2020 | CHI Grad Fellow Post
As Autumn and I climb closer to a completed initial version of the Archaeology 101 Project website, we wanted to get some feedback from individuals in our target audience. Luckily, we spent our Spring Break with my 10-year-old niece, who was happy to take our...
by Autumn Painter | Mar 18, 2020 | CHI Grad Fellow Post
If you’re not familiar with this project, Archaeology 101 is a collaborative CHI project between myself and Jeffrey Painter. At the launch, this project will be an interactive website that can be used to introduce elementary and middle school students (and other...
by Ryan Carty | Mar 11, 2020 | CHI Grad Fellow Post
A major part of my CHI project is cleaning trade data that I collected from the Public Records and Archives Administration Department (PRAAD) in Accra and Tamale, Ghana that includes paper records of the goods carried by traders across the Volta River. The statistics,...
by Kyeesha M. Wilcox | Feb 29, 2020 | Uncategorized
I recently read an article by Dan Erickson that discussed his experiences being 10 years without a car. Erickson pointed out that not having a car can come with some baggage. In a few examples, Erickson noted that travelling with children and making long distance...
by Sandy Burnley | Feb 28, 2020 | Uncategorized
For the most part, adapting Lead’s Bootleaf coding to suit my needs has been fairly flawless. I have been able to incorporate three maps, including Sherlock Holmes The Hound of Baskerville, Ouida’s Puck, and Virginia Woolf’s Flush. Somehow the...
by franc230 | Feb 27, 2020 | Uncategorized
What You Think You Know You know how to use a computer, right? Obviously that’s true since you’re reading this, but that doesn’t mean you know how a computer works. You probably have some idea that electricity, circuits, binary and other computer...
by Jeff Painter | Feb 20, 2020 | CHI Grad Fellow Post
As a Ph.D. candidate, most of my writing is geared toward an audience composed of fellow grad students, professional archaeologists, university professors, and avocational archaeologists. In many ways, we write in a language that only other archaeologists, those...
by Autumn Painter | Feb 19, 2020 | CHI Grad Fellow Post, CHI Project Info
A main component of the Archaeology 101 project will be interactive games created through different JavaScript libraries to teach visitors about different archaeological concepts. If you aren’t familiar with the project, please check out the project introduction...
by Ryan Carty | Feb 15, 2020 | CHI Grad Fellow Post
As a returning CHI fellow, I was tasked with organizing a workshop on a digital humanities tool of my choice. I knew I wanted to do something related to data analysis and visualization and eventually decided on the computing language R, which I used last year to clean...
by Jen Andrella | Feb 5, 2020 | CHI Grad Fellow Post
Earlier this week I read an article titled “Why Don’t Archivists Digitize Everything” by Samantha Thompson from the Peel Art Gallery Museum and Archives. Thompson thoughtfully provided both positive and critical reflection regarding archival digitization initiatives....
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