Category: CHI Fellowship Program
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The End is Only the Beginning for QUALANTH: A Digital Repository for Qualitative Researchers
When conceptualizing QUALANTH, I wanted to build a digital repository for researchers, like myself, who work with human research participants. Over the past year, I have tackled issues around privacy, protection of human subjects, IRB and consent form and tried to embody these issues when designing QUALANTH but this work is far from over. An…
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Reveal and review: Talus through development
Well, kids, it’s finally here. Please, allow me to present the mobile web app version of: TALUS! Check it out on your smartphone or shrink down a browser window to see it in reasonable dimensions. I set out with a pretty clear vision of the product I wanted to create. Starting from total zero, besides…
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Open Source Programs & Coding in a New Environment
Recently, I visited the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command Central Identification Laboratory (JPAC/CIL) at Hickam Joint Base in Honolulu, Hawaii. (For another post chronicling my personal experiences, click here.) Although the big name is complex, you might guess from the “POW/MIA” part of it that their mission is to identify and bring home all unaccounted-for American…
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2012 Allied Media Conference: A First Timer’s Thoughts
From June 28th to July 1st, I had the opportunity to attend my first Allied Media Conference in Detroit, Michigan. The conference is put on by the Allied Media Projects (AMP), an organization dedicated to developing media strategies ‘for a more just and creative world’ by drawing on disciplines such as technology, education, and communications.…
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APIs and Cultural Heritage
An essential area of focus for cultural heritage scholars should be application programming interfaces, or APIs. APIs are, in very simple terms, code libraries assembled by web service companies to enable third-party applications to communicate with the web service platform. Though an API is an interface, it is invisible to the human eye; indeed, it’s…
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DHSI and Digital Scholarship
At the start of June, I attended the Digital Humanities Summer Institute. I was asked a number of interesting questions from other participants that I thought I would share: What did I attend DHSI? A focused classroom setting with a proven record of leaving students with new skills. I was interested in GIS software as…
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SocioCultural Anthropology and The AnthroDataDPA Report: Part 1
Over the past year, I have searched for resources addressing digital preservation and access issues applicable to sociocultural anthropology, my larger subfield, or at least qualitatively leaning researchers. One of my finds was the AnthroDataDPA Report (Anthropological Data Digital Preservation and Access), which will be the primary focus of this post. Generated from a weekend…
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Dismantling the Troubling Monolithic Representation of Coding in the Humanities
Coding in the humanities has been the topic of much heated discussion. The conversation has spanned the shoulds-and-should-nots, the whys-and-why-nots, and the who-and-who’s-nots. What troubles me most about the conversations surrounding coding in the humanities is that the notion of coding is constructed as almost monolithic which dangerously lends to the construction of Coding, Coders,…
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Race in DH, Postcolonial Studies & Digitizing Chinese Englishmen: Interview w/ Adeline Koh
This following post is an interview that I recently conducted with Adeline Koh, Assistant Professor of Post Colonial Studies at Richard Stockton College. With a PhD in Comparative Literature, Koh’s research interests include global feminisms, British, Southeast Asian and African literature and the digital humanities. During the 2012-2013 academic year, Koh will be a visiting…
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Social Media and Digital Life in Oman 2: “شوي شوي”
Social Media and Digital Life in Oman 2: “شوي شوي” This post begins were the previous post left off: exploring the potential for social media in Oman, particularly as a forum for cultural heritage education, research, and outreach. Specifically, I am interested in considering the ways in which different social media may be leveraged (or…