Category: CHI Project Info
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Visualizing Southern Television
There can be no question that television news reporting has played a key role in the cultural history of modern America. Since the late 1950s, any written historical narrative must compete in the minds of those who lived through the event with memories inspired by television footage. Yet that footage was not obtained in a…
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ieldran: Proposing an Early Anglo-Saxon Cemetery Database
Robert and Mays (2010), two leading bioarchaeologists, found that of the over 250 articles written on bioarchaeology in Britain from the top four journals, 79% of them were based on collections from only 5 locations. While this uneven use of skeletal collections can be attributed to a number of reasons, the one that they highlight…
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Kenya Bird Sounds
My proposed project, Kenya Bird Sounds, is to develop a mobile-based website that maps posts from Twitter onto a map of Kenya. By using publicly available mapping data (via Google Earth or other publicly available aerial photography), I will draw onto the site’s map the approximate edges of Nairobi and other several large towns through…
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A Collaborative Digitization and Annotation of Kenyan hip-hop Lyrics
My project aims at creating a one-stop site for hip-hop scholars, educators, practitioners and fans interested in accessing and learning more about the Kenyan hip-hop lyrical content. The project is motivated by the desire to collect and preserve Kenyan hip-hop lyrical content in ways that are accessible to fans, practitioners and scholars both locally and…
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Lanisng Michigan Anishinaabeg Oral History Archive
My project is titled the Lansing Michigan Anishinaabeg Oral History Archive. The goal of this project is to record the oral history and stories of Native elders and fluent Anishinaabemowin speakers who came to Lansing MI to work in the auto industry and other jobs. These elders are now in many ways the backbone and…
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Announcing “The Virtual Black Romulus Cultural Heritage Map (VBRCHM)”
In this brief blog, I will provide a description of my project, discuss the importance of my project, and present the intended functionality of my project. The hope is that the discussion of this project may inspire others to embark on similar projects as well as utilize the completed project for personal, professional and educational…
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Returning to the Fellowship: The Epic Search for a Database
This year, I am returning to the CHI Fellowship. I first participating in the program in 2011 when it was in its first year. My project for the first time around was creating an OMEKA for the MSU Campus Archaeology Project. The goal was to have somewhere to share information in a museum-like format. This…
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Settler Colonialism Uncovered: Launching Stage 1
At its most simplistic, settler colonialism was (and is) a process in which emigrants move(d) with the express purposes of territorial occupation and the formation of a new community rather than the extraction of labor or resources (however, these may have been or become secondary objectives).[1] An integral part of this process was and is Indigenous…
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Tumulus: A Mapping Archive of Northern Albanian Burial Mounds – Final Words
My CHI project, Tumulus, which can be found here, is an archive of archaeological data that were collected from previous field seasons in northern Albania. Rather than keeping data hidden away in FileMaker, our efforts are best served, I think, when they are made available and others can use them – particularly since a dizzying…
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Born Digital Collection: Call for Abstracts
Composing In/With/Through Archives: An Open Access, Born Digital Edited Collection In 2008, Kate Eichorn wrote: “To write in a digital age is to write in the archive” (1). She reflects on how the ubiquitous nature of “the archive” may be “inflected in our writing, especially in emerging genres of writing ” (1). In other words,…