Category: CHI Grad Fellow Post
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Mapping the News Cycle via StoryAtlas
The first step in creating our CHI Fellowship project is pitching our project idea to our cohort. Each of the fellows creates a project vision document, where we define our project scope, product, audiences, technology needs, and all manner of details about the project we hope to create by the end of the program. Story…
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Towards an NLP best practice for Cultural Heritage document organization: Reconstructing the Philosophical Papers of David Lewis
Recently, I read a very short but interesting article regarding a new project which seeks to improve the methodology for the organization, classification and examination of Cultural Heritage corpora. It is a collaboration between researchers at University of Lausanne, Harvard Houghton Library, Groningen University, and Bibliotheca Hertziana, and the goal is digitize and computationally reorganize…
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News as Cultural Heritage
One of the questions that has challenged me as a CHI fellow is, “What qualifies as cultural heritage?” As a journalism and media scholar, I am often confronted with the tension-filled role journalism fills, a perhaps self-imposed role that is situated between the public and institutions, between individual lived experiences and collective storytelling, and between…
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Developing a CHI Fellowship Project
Last Friday the CHI fellows presented our ideas for what we’ll be working on for the rest of the year. I was torn between two ideas, but eventually settled on one that will be a greater investment in my future dissertation work: a digital archive for digitized material culture from Native American Boarding Schools. I…
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My Project Vision
When I first applied to be a CHI Fellow, I thought I had a project plan set—however, a new project formed in my mind after our last rapid development challenge. I will be creating a digital cultural heritage mobile website highlighting the archaeological site of Marco Gonzalez in Belize, where I work during summer break.…
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Exploring the Significance of Community
“Community” has been my buzz word this year. Through experiencing, bonding, and being accepted in new communities, to hearing discussions and artist talks about types of community, I want to start off my process of creating my project by trying to define why community has become important for my work as an individual. Working in…
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Emily Nisch | CHI Fellow 2023-2024
Hello! I’m Emily Nisch, a second-year archaeology PhD student, focusing on digital archaeology, cultural heritage, and community-based participatory methods. My research looks at the material culture of Native American boarding schools and asks how digitization and community collaborative methods can contribute meaningfully to the preservation and memorialization material culture and narratives associated with the schools.…
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Morgan Hill | CHI Fellow 2023-2024
Hello everyone, I’m Morgan Hill, currently a second year MFA graduate with a concentration in Studio Arts. I am born and raised in Baltimore County, Maryland, but also frequent to the DC and NYC area. I graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts at Towson University and decided to pursue an MFA to cultivate my…
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A Linguist gets started in DH
As a linguist who is new to the Digital Humanities (DH) and Computational Cultural Heritage (CCH) community, I have been learning each day about a new project or research methodology being employed by my colleagues and I am deeply impressed with the thoughtfulness of all of their work. Naturally, I’ve been looking for a project…
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Jessica Pettengill | 2023 CHI Fellow
Welcome! I’m Jessica Pettengill, a second-year Ph.D. student in the Information and Media program in the School of Journalism. My journey to a Ph.D. and the CHI fellowship began in 2019 while I was an assignment editor at a broadcast station in my hometown of Sacramento, California. It was my first paying job in the…