by doyleras | May 5, 2017 | CHI Fellowship Program, CHI Grad Fellow Post, CHI Project Info
In some of my earlier blogging in CHI, I reflected on the extent to which a digital database would reflect the ways of thinking and knowing that were used by the people who produced the data points from which the database is built. Here, I try to collect those...
by mahnkes1 | May 5, 2017 | CHI Fellowship Program, CHI Grad Fellow Post
I’m happy to announce the launch of my project, Immigrant Imprints: Filipinx Spaces in Michigan. The site serves as a response to and exploration of the diminishment of cultural spaces amidst urban development. By following one culture’s narrative, the site tracks...
by Autumn Painter | May 4, 2017 | CHI Grad Fellow Post, CHI Project Info
I am very pleased to announce the launch of Capturing Campus Cuisine (http://earlyfood.campusarch.msu.edu/index.html)! This website showcases a research project co-created by Autumn Beyer and Susan Kooiman as Campus Archaeology Fellows. This project uses food remains...
by swayampr | May 2, 2017 | CHI Fellowship Program, CHI Fieldschool, CHI Grad Fellow Post
In working on the website and uploading materials, it struck me that the houses primarily material authored by Earle Draper. Most of that was not by design but primarily due to the fact that most of the material easily accessible (both at the National Archives in...
by Nikki Silva | May 1, 2017 | CHI Grad Fellow Post, CHI Project Info
In the next week, we will be launching our CHI projects that we have all been working on throughout the year. I defended my dissertation proposal last week so was not as focused on my CHI project, but I had some time to finally complete the addition of all scholars...
by doyleras | Apr 28, 2017 | CHI Fellowship Program, CHI Grad Fellow Post, CHI Project Info
Using WampServer, I produced an SQL database of information regarding the production and consumption of hydroelectricity in several towns in Uganda and Kenya from 1954-63. I chose this dataset because these years saw the largest increase in hydroelectric power in the...
by Erin Pevan | Apr 27, 2017 | CHI Fellowship Program, CHI Grad Fellow Post, CHI Project Info
For my last CHI blog pre-project launch post for April, I want to include a short discussion of the thought process and decision making that goes into creating a title for a digital project. It has been the part of my project that I’ve been sitting on for the...
by nelso663 | Apr 22, 2017 | CHI Grad Fellow Post
The application that has taken shape since the beginning of the CHI fellowship executes queries against the British Museum’s (BM) SPARQL endpoint. The BM system returns results serialized as XML- or JSON-LD. The application updates its data store (Redux) and...
by Jessica Yann | Apr 21, 2017 | CHI Fellowship Program, CHI Grad Fellow Post, CHI Project Info
The semester is winding down, and my project is beginning to take on its final form. I’ve been finalizing text, references, and glossary terms, and basically making sure the content is what I want prior to playing with the formatting. As I’ve been...
by mahnkes1 | Apr 12, 2017 | CHI Grad Fellow Post, CHI Project Info
When working with communities, the design process for a website is purposefully ongoing. Some days I find myself doing more deleting than generating, and on others, I’m reenergized by the newer possibilities proposed by the community. Beyond the natural ebb and flow...
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