Category: CHI Announcements
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Visualizing Southern Television (v. 1.0) Launched!
In 1987, the University of Mississippi held a symposium entitled “Covering the South: A National Symposium on the Media and the Civil Rights Movement” wherein participants discussed the influence of media on the civil rights movement. During one panel, a group consisting of eleven Pulitzer Prize winners and three Emmy awardees make huge claims about…
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May 2: Cultural Heritage Informatics Grad Fellowship Information Session
Join Dr. Ethan Watrall (Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Cultural Heritage Informatics Initiative) On May 2 from 10-11am in Natural Sciences 407 (MATRIX conference room) for a casual information session about the Cultural Heritage Informatics (CHI) Grad Fellowship Program. Attendees interested in applying for the 2014-2015 fellowship year will get an introduction…
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important lessons learned by a novice in digital heritage preservation
For the novice computer programmer or coder, the digital preservation process can be very educational. Yet, it can also be very frustrating. The most difficult part for me was actually getting started building the platform to present the cultural heritage being preserved. I had downloaded the files for the platforms I want to work and…
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Talus Released for Android
We are very happy to announce that the native Android version of Talus is now available for free from the Google Play Store. Created originally as a mobile website by Emily Niespodziewanski (a PhD student in the MSU Department of Anthropology) as part of her Cultural Heritage Informatics Grad Fellowship, Talus aggregates dozens of the most…
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Welcome to the New 2013-2014 Cultural Heritage Informatics Grad Fellows
The Cultural Heritage Informatics Initiative is pleased to welcome seven new CHI Grad Fellows for the 2013-2014 academic year. The new fellows come from the Departments of Anthropology, the Department of History, and the Department of Writing, Rhetoric, and American Cultures – and represent a wide variety of subdisciplines and areas of research. In the…