by swayampr | Apr 11, 2017 | CHI Fellowship Program, CHI Grad Fellow Post
As my website is coming together, I thought it was a good time to reflect on the things came to be. When I first thought of working on Norris, I had grandiose plans about how the website would come together. Beginning to work on the website however, quickly brought...
by Autumn Painter | Apr 5, 2017 | CHI Project Info
This past month has been very busy for the Capturing Campus Cuisine project! Susan Kooiman and myself have been working hard on writing up the information for each of the pages and working with the Campus Archaeology Program on planning the meal reconstruction event...
by Jessica Yann | Apr 3, 2017 | CHI Fellowship Program, CHI Grad Fellow Post
This past week I attended the Society for American Archaeology conference in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. This international conference highlights the newest archaeological research, and is always the highlight of my year. Visiting a new city, trying new...
by nelso663 | Mar 31, 2017 | CHI Grad Fellow Post
Last week I was able to attend the annual conference for the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) in Baltimore (proceedings here). One talk struck me as particularly relevant to cultural heritage informatics. The authors explored humanities scholarship...
by doyleras | Mar 31, 2017 | CHI Fellowship Program, CHI Grad Fellow Post, CHI Project Info
I have now created a database of tables about the production and consumption of hydroelectricity in the final decade of colonial rule in Uganda and Kenya, i.e. the years after the construction of the Owen Falls Dam for which I have been able to digitize data (I am...
by Erin Pevan | Mar 29, 2017 | CHI Fellowship Program, CHI Grad Fellow Post, CHI Project Info
News flash: sometimes your project doesn’t go the way you expect it to! This month’s blog will be more of a project update, focusing on the logistics of my project’s progress rather than the specifics of the content. In the last month, I’ve...
by Nikki Silva | Mar 24, 2017 | CHI Fellowship Program, CHI Grad Fellow Post, CHI Project Info
My last blog post addressed the criteria of inclusion I am using for the Directory of Oneota Scholars. As I was collecting names of scholars, I had to eventually stop and begin working through this corpus to gather information on their current research interests,...
by mahnkes1 | Mar 24, 2017 | CHI Grad Fellow Post
When working to persuade an audience, one assumes to mostly wrestle with whatever’s rendered on the other side of the code. The archaic mess of symbols tucked under the rug of GitHub files is kept cleanly from view—or especially interest—from the community I work...
by doyleras | Mar 20, 2017 | CHI Fellowship Program, CHI Grad Fellow Post, CHI Project Info
I have not updated the blog about my project in a while. Its scope has been pared down significantly – as Ethan has said from the start that it would. The main change is that in order to make the creation of a database manageable within the time parameters of the...
by doyleras | Mar 20, 2017 | CHI Fellowship Program, CHI Grad Fellow Post
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-38324045 I attended the event described in the article above. The general purpose of this series of events is to preserve scientific environmental knowledge that is supported by the US federal government and is therefore...
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