Author: watrall
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How to Build the Directory of Oneota Scholars
In the past few weeks I have struggled to decide how I will build my database into my github pages site, without learning how to code SQL (structured query language), which would be difficult given the amount of time I have to complete this project. I was struggling with using Airtable as a front end…
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Wading Through Skeletal Aging Literature and Raphael.js
Apologies for my tardiness in posting! It’s been an incredibly hectic semester so far and time keeps on slipping away! Since my project is focused on subadult skeletal age estimation, I’ve really started going through the literature and publications over the subject. On one hand, this is a great way for me to conduct in-depth…
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Learning About Web 3.0
My project involves working with some of the technologies of the semantic web. The main idea of the semantic web (or web 3.0, and in Berners-Lee’s language the “read+write+execute” phase that will supersede the “read-only” phase of web 1.0 and the “read+write” phase of web 2.0) is for web services to reason automatically about resources. Robust descriptions…
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Gathering Data of Immigrant Movement in Detroit
During the break, I started gathering data for Filipino-American settlement and representation in Michigan, and my first stop was the city of Detroit. Michigan is already a difficult state for this type of search because many of the first wave immigrants came through Hawaii, the West Coast, and Illinois. I believed Detroit would be a…
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Circumnavigating the choppy waters of evidence gathering in Norwegian national literature
Recently, as I’ve begun to build my project and begin the first explorations of constructing the corpus of textual evidence through which I will examine national identity in Norway, I’ve been vexed with an epistemological challenge of using such evidence in my corpus that includes examples of literature, folklore, folk songs, and the like. Can…
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Phase I: Developing my Timeline
Now that the new semester is here, I have finally begin to build my archaeological timeline of Michigan. While not much has changed on the project website, I have been working steadily on collecting the necessary data to include. You are welcome to view/keep tabs on my project development by going to my project development…
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Capturing Campus Cuisine: Choosing a MSU Theme
Over the Winter break and into the beginning of this semester I have been working on building and editing the framework for the Capturing Campus Cuisine website on the early food practices at Michigan State University. Following discussions with Susan Kooiman, my fellow Campus Archaeology fellow on this project and Dr. Goldstein, we wanted to…
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Rifling through a stack of books: Examining expressions of Norwegian national identity
In my last CHI blog post of 2016, I’ll discuss the next steps of my project, expanding from my last post regarding the visualization of cultural heritage and ethnographic topics to the overall scheme and vision of my own project on Norwegian national identity. As with most large scale and content heavy projects, mine has…
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Project Introduction: Directory of Oneota Scholars
Project Description: My dissertation research focuses on Oneota populations living in Illinois. Artifacts attributed to the Oneota have been found primarily in Iowa, Wisconsin, and Minnesota. Because of the variety of Oneota sites and the different geographic areas where artifacts have been found, it is difficult to parse out who is currently studying or has previously studied…
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Clarifying My Project’s Topic
My project will consist of a deep dive into the representation of heritage objects in CIDOC-CRM and will result in an interactive presentation of case analyses of CIDOC-CRM object descriptions. I’m interested in exploring the operations through which an object comes to be recognized as a heritage object. In documenting the why of the project, I’ve dabbled…