Author: watrall
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Then and Now: Revisiting the Rapid Development Projects as a Senior Fellow
During October, we completed our first Rapid Development Challenge of the year. This first project consists of developing a two page project vision document and then transforming that document into a website. Brainstorming a new project with new collaborators was exciting–despite having the same options of heritage institutions to choose from as last year, my…
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Fishing for Fun in Building a Pitch Website
Over the past couple of weeks, the fellows in the CHI lab have been working through the process of taking an idea for a digital heritage project from vision, to vision document, and then to the creation of a pitch website. As part of the group developing an idea for the Reykjavik Maritime Museum, I…
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Troubleshooting DH Projects
In discussing DH pedagogy, it feels inevitable that whatever project you’re working on will “break” – technically speaking – during the semester. Although some DH scholars have made compelling arguments about the utility of failure when employing DH tools in the classroom, if the course is not designed to be DH at its core, I…
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Vision Document to Website
Hello CHI Community! It’s been a crazy last month in Chi, as we learned more about planning and implementing digital heritage projects through small rapid development projects. First, we were asked to create a Vision Documents (or a two-page snippet on your project’s scope, goals, audience, data, and partners) of an idea to build…
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Learning Curves, Hindsight, and Setting Goals
It’s October again, which means it’s time for the mid-semester crunch! Right now in the CHI calendar, we’re working through a series of rapid development challenges, most of which focus on the technical skills we’ll need to complete our projects. In addition to brushing up on our coding and design abilities, these challenges can help…
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Vision Document: A GPS to DH Projects
Over the past few weeks, we’ve learned much about cultural heritage and the processes involved in digitizing cultural heritage. UNESCO defines cultural heritage as material culture (artifacts, monuments, structures, landscapes, etc.) and intangible cultural attributes (oral traditions, language, social practices, cuisine, etc.) of a group, community, or society that are transmitted intergenerationally, used and maintained…
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Summer Research in Stratford
It’s hard to believe that it’s already October–it feels like I was just in Stratford doing some research for my dissertation yesterday, but it has been three months. At the end of last year, I was awarded funds from MSU’s College of Arts and Letters to conduct research abroad. As such, I spent the end…
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Hello CHI Community!
My name is Rhian Dunn. I am a fourth year doctoral student in the Department of Anthropology, specializing in Forensic Anthropology. My research focuses on improving methods of the biological profile by looking at human skeletal variation through metric and macromorphoscopic trait analyses. My dissertation will focus on bias in skeletal collections, which I plan…
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Glad to be Returning to CHI for ’22-’23
Hello everyone! I’m excited to be (re)joining the CHI fellowship as a senior fellow in the ’22-’23 cohort. My name is Erica Holt, and I’m finishing my final year of my PhD in the History department. My dissertation focuses on reproductive work in China and Taiwan between 1950 and 1980. I’m exploring the roles of…
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Hello, CHI Community!
Hey all, my name is Emma Creamer, and I am in my second year of the Arts, Cultural Management, and Museum Studies Master’s program. In addition to the CHII Fellowship, I am also super excited to start the Campus Archaeology Program Fellowship! My background is in community-based archaeology, museum studies and collections management. My thesis…