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 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....
by Jeff Painter | Jan 23, 2020 | CHI Grad Fellow Post
As introduced yesterday by Autumn, the Archaeology 101 project will generate an interactive website with the main goal of introducing elementary and middle school students, as well as other interested individuals, to archaeology. The website will include basic...
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