MSU Online Archaeological Collections

Project Launch Post As a returning CHI fellow, I am hoping to build upon my last years CHI project. Last year I built a digital repository in Kora and the metadata scheme organizing the data within it. This year, I hope to take the data that I have deposited into that...

Mapping Nonhumans

Originally I planned on using Brian McBride’s Bootleaf to launch this project of mapping nonhuman presence across a Victorian landscape. His template conveniently conjoins the benefits of Leaflet and Bootstrap, but its convenience is also its pitfall, at least...

Digitizing Culinary History

My project will be a digital representation of my larger research project, How to Read a Cookbook: Deciphering the Life of Malinda Russell. Malinda Russell was a nineteenth century culinary entrepreneur whose 1866, A Domestic Cook Book: Containing a Careful Selection...

Project ideas

In my last post I posed a bunch of questions about digital pedagogy. My long attempt at an answer is going to be my project. I am planning a website that will be a pedagogical tool to help teach an undergraduate course on the American Revolution. ...

Commodities on the Volta River

For my CHI project, I plan to publish a clean dataset composed of information about trade goods carried across the Volta River in West Africa. An important nexus of trade from the nineteenth to the twentieth century, the Volta River was traversed by traders moving...

An Annotated Video Guide on Mapbox

Table of Contents: Introduction Tutorials Project Examples About the Author Photo source: https://gfycat.com/gifs/search/mapbox Introduction Whether you are a student or instructor interested in using Mapbox, this guide offers a quick overview of videos related to the...