Category: CHI Fellowship Program
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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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Putting the Dead to Rest: My Last Post
Over the past six months, I’ve been developing and tweaking ieldran, an interactive Early Anglo-Saxon cemetery map. In this post, I’ve going to overview quickly why I developed the project, what tools I used, and where the project will be going. In 410 C.E., the Roman Empire withdrew its administration and armies from England. Increasingly over…
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Imbiza 1.0: It’s Just the Beginning!
Ke nako! Imbiza 1.0: A Digital Repository of the 2010 World Cup is now live and can be found at imbiza.matrix.msu.edu! Imbiza is a digital repository of over 500 photos and videos related to the 2010 World Cup in South Africa. I have compiled materials for nearly every day of the tournament, and sources that…
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An Imbiza Update
As the May 2nd launch date approaches, I find myself surprised at how much this project has changed (and changed again, then changed again) since the original idea emerged in an October 2013 Session of the Football Scholars Forum. Originally, I planned on a project that focused solely on the stadiums and fan parks, but…
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ieldran comes alive with the dead (despite issues)
Over the past few weeks of working on my Bootleaf based project, ieldran, there have been a number of interesting problems and developments that I’d like the share. Being a good linked open access site: Last summer I was accepted into the Linked Ancient World Data Institute, an NEH ODH sponsored two day workshop/discussion on how…
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Making progress and future projects
In the last few weeks I have been talking with community members about my project with the CHI Fellowship and getting some input on its potential. Some really exciting things came up in our conversations that I want to share as well as some of the things I have uncovered as part of my research…
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Creating complexity with simplicity
It almost never fails that, when attempting to simplify, complexity always follows. As I mentioned in my most recent blog post, the project that I am undertaking as a CHI Fellow this year is to compose a “best practices” guide, of sorts, for what is to be a relatively simplified means of 3D data capture…
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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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Project Intro: Bones in 3D
Studying ancient skeletal populations can present numerous challenges, particularly when bioarchaeologists work with material that is not kept in museums or well-maintained repositories. Preservation issues, access, long-term storage, and general data capture all contribute to the difficulty in studying ancient skeletal material in the field. While methods do exist for extending the use-life of ancient…
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Television and Celebritization: A Louisiana Story from 1960
Television has been turning everyday people into celebrities since it became a fixture in American households. Although reality television did not begin until 1973 with An American Family, television news reporters were putting everyday people in the spotlight long before that. Throughout the later 1950s and 1960s, we can see television news coverage turning local…