Cultural Heritage Informatics Initiative

Author: watrall

  • Eric Rodriguez- New CHI Fellow

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    Hello! My name is Eric Manuel Rodriguez and I am a fourth-year Ph.D. student with Writing, Rhetoric, and American Cultures Department. I am interested in the decolonial possibility of indigenous frameworks in the instruction of writing. Broadly, I’m attuned to some of the concerns of under-served, low-income communities because I come from these communities. This…

  • Digital Project Presentation

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    This past weekend I attended NAVSA to present the little bit I have built on QGIS. I map nonhuman animals across Victorian fiction, along with their human companions. I incorporate various attributes into my database such as race, class, breed, gender, ability, etc., to explore why we write about nonhuman animals. Why do they appear…

  • Food Mapping in Digital Historical Research

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    I am a visual person. I thrive off of color and aesthetics. For me, writing words is just one part of how I want to share my research. Graphs, maps, photographs, and hand-written recipes or notes provide tangible information that I think is necessary for expressing ideas or sharing information to a wider audience. Not…

  • Cultural Heritage and Popular Culture

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    This year my project in CHI is aimed towards allowing me to try and think through questions of cultural heritage and popular culture, while creating a project that attempts to interpret a series of dramatic changes within a set spatial boundary over time. Much of this thinking has been informed by the ideas I am…

  • Some Thoughts on the GitHub Challenge

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    I resorted to GitHub many a time when I took a geography class and learned how to use some python modules to facilitate geospatial data processing. Great contents and programming resources organized and shared by some GitHub users impressed me. I, however, used GitHub the same way as I used Stack Overflow then: merely passively…

  • Digital Tools and Presentation Narratives

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    This summer, I attended the Tensions of Europe (ToE) conference focused on histories of technology in Europe and the impact of the digital age on contemporary scholarship. The conference was most interesting in encouraging presentations that considered technologies as both research subjects and tools. The different types of technology appeared in presentations primarily concerned with…

  • Re-learning/Un-learning

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    Coming back to CHI, I realize how enjoyable the fellowship is, especially as a space where we break and un-break things together. During my first time as a CHI fellow, I was especially afraid of breaking things. This time around, I am enjoying breaking things and un-breaking them with my peers. As part of our…

  • Git & GitHub related Notes

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    When I first attended the digital humanities summer institute in 2018, I noticed that many people put a half-cat/half-octopus sticker on their laptops. I didn’t think too much about it since I was constantly overwhelmed by all the new terms, conversations, technologies that happened around me (I was also amazed by the beauty of Victoria).…

  • Building a Vision

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    The fellowship this year has been very eventful and a lot of fun. So far, I worked with James and Kyeesha to come up with a vision document for incorporating virtual reality (VR) into the Canadian Museum for Human Rights. Though I believe none of us are experts in the field of VR, it was…

  • Hi from Elise Dixon — Senior CHI Fellow

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    Hi all! My name is Elise Dixon. I’m a 5th year PhD candidate in Writing, Rhetoric, and American Cultures, and a second-year returning fellow at CHI. I’m thrilled to be back at CHI– it has been one of my favorite experiences as a graduate student at MSU. My favorite part about CHI was developing some…