Cultural Heritage Informatics Initiative

Category: CHI Grad Fellow Post

  • Coding and the useful idea of productive failure.

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  • 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…

  • Hello CHI Fellowship!

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  • Introducing New Additions to Archaeology 101

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    As part of an extension of my 2019-2020 CHI Fellowship, I have spent the summer working on updates and additions to Archaeology 101, an interactive educational website created by myself and Autumn Painter. Over the last few months, I have been working to improve the interactive map located on the site’s “Place” page and have…

  • Future Updates to Archaeology 101

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    After the successful launch of Archaeology 101 (archaeology101.com) at the end of April, Autumn and I began brainstorming ways to add to and improve the website. We also examined user feedback to better highlight areas that could be upgraded (thank you to all those who have checked out the website!). Moving forward this summer, I…

  • “May even one day outstrip the history monograph”: AHR Digital History Reviews and Thoughts on the Status of the Field

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  • 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…

  • Launching Post for “American Tastes, Russian Eats”

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    I am very happy to launch my CHI fellowship project, American Tastes, Russian Eats, at the end of the 2019-20 academic year. The random idea of creating a website about some U.S. fast food’s footprint in Russia came to my mind when I worked as a graduate teаching assistant for Dr. Helen Veit’s course History…

  • Technologies of Change

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    Once I had changed the direction of my project, the next task was deciding on sources, interface, and overall design. For the former, I decided to make use of the International River Boundary Database (IRBD), which contains information about border rives including their lengths (estimated using GoogleEarth. While that was a great database, it did…

  • Some reflections…after doing this two times

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    This website began as an assignment as I was trying to define the rationale and parameters of my project. I stumbled upon the International River Boundaries Database (IRBD) and realized its significance. But it has taken five years to articulate and realize my vision. In making this website I realized a few things: First, I…