Cultural Heritage Informatics Initiative

Author: watrall

  • Launching Six Degrees of Great Lakes Treaties

    Launching Six Degrees of Great Lakes Treaties

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    It is with great pleasure that I am finally able to announce the public launch of my digital cultural heritage project, Six Degrees of Great Lakes Treaties. The purpose of this project is to provide a dynamic visualization of the tangled Anishinaabe and American social networks weaved through treaty negotiations across the late-eighteenth and nineteenth-century…

  • Launching The Edo Provenance Project

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    The Edo Provenance Project maps the journey of 100 artifacts looted from the sacking of Benin City by the British in the 1897 punitive expedition and currently on display in various European and American Museums. The Benin bronzes have recently become a contested topic with some institutions planning to repatriate artifacts as soon as 2022.…

  • The Silenced Borders of Yemen

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    This blog is based on a paper I started for a class when COVID hit back in Spring 2020. I decided I would like to modify and use as a blog post to discuss my interest on political borders. Introduction Little attention has been given to Yemeni refugees and their crisis back in their home…

  • Call for 2021-2022 Cultural Heritage Informatics Graduate Fellowship Applications

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    The Cultural Heritage Informatics Initiative invites applications for its 2021-2022 Cultural Heritage Informatics Graduate Fellowship program. The Cultural Heritage Informatics Fellowships offer MSU graduate students the skills to creatively and thoughtfully apply digital methods and computational approaches to cultural heritage collections, materials, data, questions, and challenges.

  • Virtual Work and Social Living

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    (Disclaimer: this was posted a couple of months ago on the other platform) What will the future hold when it comes to the virtual world? Since March, much of the world has been living a virtual reality modifying our lives, workplaces, and homes into untouchable spaces through the internet and our screens. We have learned…

  • Creating a Website – The Art of a Computer’s Brain

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    https://images.app.goo.gl/8YABK8x44Tzcrx4h9 Remember the desktop application Paint? I always envisioned how I would want to create a website from the surface level of making demands and thinking I can enter some type of platform where it is like a paint canvas. What I have been learning is that creating a website is not only about how…

  • Digital Pedagogy | Disseminating Accessibility

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    One positive that may have come out of socially-distanced learning and research is creativity, the need for open-access, and collaboration. While COVID-19 has propelled and inspired innovative techniques in digital pedagogy, it has also illuminated the lack of data openly available for education. As a discipline, forensic anthropology is hands-on and highly visual, especially in…

  • Mapping Dionysian memories with Leaflet

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    [et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”4.6.2″ _module_preset=”default”][et_pb_row column_structure=”2_3,1_3″ _builder_version=”4.6.2″ _module_preset=”default”][et_pb_column type=”2_3″ _builder_version=”4.6.2″ _module_preset=”default”][et_pb_post_title _builder_version=”4.6.2″ _module_preset=”default” title_font_size=”52px” meta_text_color=”#000000″ background_color=”#e09900″ text_orientation=”center” title_text_shadow_style=”preset4″ meta_text_shadow_style=”preset3″][/et_pb_post_title][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.6.2″ _module_preset=”default”]   Mapping is not only about representing space. It is about representing space from humans’ perspectives, and therefore, it is about telling a story. Maps can be works of art, they can be instruments of…

  • The Mapping Challenge: “That’s one small step for mankind, one giant leap for me”*

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    2021 has literally begun, it looks like a continuation of its bloody sibling 2020, though. Spring 2021 has literally begun as well with our 3rd and final challenge as groups yet with more challenges. For our last challenge, basically, we created a map of the pre-Covid party/socialization scene of Ph.D. students in Lansing as a…

  • Building a CHI project

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    The CHI fellowship has two moments: introducing the use informatics have for cultural heritage and the development of an individual or a collective digital humanities’ project. The division of those moments is not absolute. The introduction to the use informatics has for social sciences and the humanities comes with instances of practice and learning while…