by Bernard C. Moore | Mar 4, 2016 | CHI Grad Fellow Post
March 2013, Helsinki: I had the privilege to interview Martti Ahtisaari, former President of Finland and Nobel Prize Laureate, for my documentary film From Windhoek to Washington. From 1977 through 1981, Ahtisaari was the United Nations Special Representative for...
by Autumn Painter | Mar 3, 2016 | CHI Fellowship Program, CHI Grad Fellow Post, CHI Project Info
We have made some major progress since Nikki’s post last week! Not only have we figured out our toggling layer problem, we have placed the interactive map into our website! While we still have some little things to keep working on and adding to the website, our...
by Sara Bijani | Feb 26, 2016 | CHI Grad Fellow Post
I’ll start with a story. This project began with the very broad objective of constructing a recyclable content management interface with OHMS incorporation, to be reused at a later stage in my dissertation project. I stumbled into the Finally Got the News content I’ve...
by Nikki Silva | Feb 26, 2016 | CHI Grad Fellow Post, CHI Project Info
The past few weeks have been eventful for the Mapping Morton Village project, since Autumn’s blog post on 2/11, we have completed all of the content for the website, and continued working on the interactive map. Mapbox has been a bit of a struggle for us, as we could...
by farleyj7 | Feb 21, 2016 | CHI Grad Fellow Post
Big, ambitious projects require energy and huge sets of data that isn’t easily accessible. No surprise there! But, why? Why is archival research a maddening, mind-numbing, stress-inducing and life-reducing process? At the crux of this heated debate are signed over...
by Lisa Bright | Feb 18, 2016 | CHI Grad Fellow Post, CHI Project Info
As Katy mentioned over on the Digital Archaeology Institute blog, we’re focusing on two major steps in the development of our project: 1) creating the framework, and 2) developing the content. For more details about the content development, head on over to Katy’s...
by wargojon | Feb 18, 2016 | CHI Grad Fellow Post, CHI Project Info
Crank.Spin.Putter-Putter-Putter. Click. Swipe. Type. These are the sounds that circulate in my mind as I architect the #hearmyhome project. Most days, it feels like I am building the plane while flying it. Working to circulate and collaborate with participants, I...
by Autumn Painter | Feb 11, 2016 | CHI Grad Fellow Post, CHI Project Info
In this post, I would like to discuss what will be included within the Mapping Morton Village interactive map. For the past several weeks, Nikki Silva and myself have been working on the written content of Mapping Morton Village. We decided to write the content of the...
by jfelipe195 | Feb 10, 2016 | CHI Grad Fellow Post
It is time to show the fields we are using in our database on Baptismal Records for Slave Societies (BARDSS). In previous posts, we pointed out that this database was possible thanks to a project hosted at Vanderbilt University and led by professor Jane Landers....
by jfelipe195 | Feb 9, 2016 | CHI Grad Fellow Post
We discussed in previous posts about the importance of selecting representative fields when we are creating a database based on historical records. It is critical to go back again to this point due to the importance it has while designing a functional...
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