Category: CHI Project Info
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Movement Across Disciplines: Inspiration from the Migration with Borders Conference at MSU
A few weeks ago I had the opportunity to attend and chair a panel at the Migration Without Borders Conference here at Michigan State. I do not consider migration as a central theme of my work, nor I am particularly well versed in the historiography of migration beyond the books I read for my comp…
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Uncovering Isolation in the Archive: Women Workers in Bicycle Factories
I have begun diving to a variety of sources for my project “Wheelwomen at Work,” in which I am digitizing women’s involvement in the bicycle industry from the 1880s to the 1910s. One of my most striking findings so far has come from factory inspection records. Starting in the 1880s, many states established departments in…
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Visualizing Southern Television 2.0: Launched!
Today marks the official launching of Visualizing Southern Television 2.0, the second version of my project digitally mapping the footprint for television stations in the south between 1946 and 1965. Back in June, I began the process of deconstructing the mapping infrastructure of VST with three main goals: to improve the aesthetics of the mapping…
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Introducing the Virtual Black Romulus Cultural Heritage Center
Introducing the Virtual Black Romulus Cultural Heritage Center (VBRCHC), whose web address is: http://vbrchc.matrix.msu.edu Introduction I must begin by stating that I was born and raised in Romulus, MI. I attended Cory Elementary, Romulus Middle School and Romulus High School. This project is a labor of love. It truly all began when I was an elementary school…
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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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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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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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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…
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Mapping the Ancestors: Project Update
As stated in my previous post, a problem within archaeology is that there are thousands of sites that have been excavated, and information about these sites and their collections can be difficult to find. Cemeteries from Early Anglo-Saxon England have been excavated, studied, and curated since the 17th century. There are hundreds of collections found…
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Africa Inspired Socio-Cultural Heritage in Oriente Cuba: A Digital Mapping Project
My Cultural Heritage Informatics Initiative project is a digital mapping that focuses on contributions from Cuba’s African heritage to socio-cultural spaces and places in the island’s eastern, Oriente region. Oriente has had an historical African presence dating back as early as the 1520s and the area has been the province from which began all of…