Cultural Heritage Informatics Initiative

Category: CHI Fellowship Program

  • 3DMMS Initiative: Summer Expansion

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    This summer I am working on an extension of my 2020-2021 CHI Fellowship project: 3D MMS Initiative. This website was initially created with the focus of disseminating a pedagogical tool for users to learn macromorphoscopic traits. The website highlights three-dimensional cranial and postcranial variations of the human skeleton. Hand in hand with the learning the…

  • Digital Pedagogy | Disseminating Accessibility

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    One positive that may have come out of socially-distanced learning and research is creativity, the need for open-access, and collaboration. While COVID-19 has propelled and inspired innovative techniques in digital pedagogy, it has also illuminated the lack of data openly available for education. As a discipline, forensic anthropology is hands-on and highly visual, especially in…

  • Beginning Our Final Projects | Visualizing & Planning

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    The end of the semester in the CHI fellowship comes with the final proposals of our digital cultural heritage projects. Throughout the semester we have been attending workshops and participating in the collaborative rapid development projects to learn skills that will help shape these projects. When I applied for the CHI fellowship I came with…

  • Fellowship through Coding | Make Mistakes & Ask Questions

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    When we were told that the CHI was going completely online I realized how different fellowship would look completely virtual. Throughout the semester we do rapid development projects which allow us to work in small groups with other fellows. These projects include a project vision document, creating a project pitch website based on the vision…

  • Coding and the useful idea of productive failure.

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    [et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”4.6.2″ _module_preset=”default”][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.6.2″ _module_preset=”default”][et_pb_column _builder_version=”4.6.2″ _module_preset=”default” type=”4_4″][et_pb_image src=”http://chi.anp.casl.cal.msu.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/sites/8/2020/11/2011.18-d1_o2.jpg” _builder_version=”4.6.2″ _module_preset=”default” hover_enabled=”0″ sticky_enabled=”0″ title_text=”2011.18-d1_o2″ background_color=”#e09900″][/et_pb_image][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.6.2″ _module_preset=”default”][et_pb_column _builder_version=”4.6.2″ _module_preset=”default” type=”4_4″][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.6.2″ _module_preset=”default” hover_enabled=”0″ sticky_enabled=”0″] My training as a social science scholar never considered the potential uses informatics could have in my scholarship. Consequently, even when I received some education regarding project management (particularly tied…

  • Ethics in Virtual Osteology | What Should We Be Considering?

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    With the use of three-dimensional modeling and printing becoming more commonplace in cultural heritage with the digital preservation of artifacts and sites, ethical standards must also be considered in the replication of any cultural aspect. People might not immediately think of forensic sciences or anatomy being immediately connected to culture, but this is where anthropology…

  • Michael J. Albani | New CHI Fellow 2020-2021

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    Boozhoo! My name is Michael Albani, and I am excited to be joining the Cultural Heritage Informatics Initiative as a graduate fellow for the 2020-2021 academic year. I am a PhD candidate in the Department of History at Michigan State University where I am currently entering my fifth year. My dissertation, tentatively titled “Racializing Indigenous…

  • Micayla Spiros | New CHI Fellow 2020-2021

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    Hello! My name is Micayla Spiros and I am a fellow in the Cultural Heritage Informatics (CHI) fellowship initiative for the 2020-2021 school year. I am a third year doctoral student in the Anthropology Ph.D. program with a specialization in forensic anthropology. My dissertation research focuses on growth and development of the human skeleton and…

  • Hello CHI Fellowship!

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    [et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”4.6.2″ _module_preset=”default”][et_pb_row column_structure=”2_3,1_3″ _builder_version=”4.6.2″ _module_preset=”default”][et_pb_column type=”2_3″ _builder_version=”4.6.2″ _module_preset=”default”][et_pb_post_title _builder_version=”4.6.2″ _module_preset=”default” title_font_size=”52px” meta_text_color=”#000000″ background_color=”#e09900″ text_orientation=”center” title_text_shadow_style=”preset4″ meta_text_shadow_style=”preset3″][/et_pb_post_title][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.6.2″ _module_preset=”default”] As individuals and as a field, we must interrogate our work to ensure that we are not ourselves complicit in the neoliberal practice of naming problems in order to evade their resolution (Matthew K. Gold…

  • Changing Directions: *

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    In February, I decided to fundamentally alter my project i.e. a whole new project. I still wanted to create a pedagogical tool but had instead to create something that could be used students and teachers in the K-12 system. While a course website is still a great idea, I realized that it was out of…