Category: CHI Project Info
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Capturing Campus Cuisine: User Interaction
Following up on my previous blog about choosing an MSU theme for the Capturing Campus Cuisine webpage, this post will focus on the user interaction and experience. While the major sections of the webpage of this project had been previously decided, I was still not completely sure how I wanted the users to move through…
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How to Build the Directory of Oneota Scholars
In the past few weeks I have struggled to decide how I will build my database into my github pages site, without learning how to code SQL (structured query language), which would be difficult given the amount of time I have to complete this project. I was struggling with using Airtable as a front end…
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Circumnavigating the choppy waters of evidence gathering in Norwegian national literature
Recently, as I’ve begun to build my project and begin the first explorations of constructing the corpus of textual evidence through which I will examine national identity in Norway, I’ve been vexed with an epistemological challenge of using such evidence in my corpus that includes examples of literature, folklore, folk songs, and the like. Can…
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Phase I: Developing my Timeline
Now that the new semester is here, I have finally begin to build my archaeological timeline of Michigan. While not much has changed on the project website, I have been working steadily on collecting the necessary data to include. You are welcome to view/keep tabs on my project development by going to my project development…
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Capturing Campus Cuisine: Choosing a MSU Theme
Over the Winter break and into the beginning of this semester I have been working on building and editing the framework for the Capturing Campus Cuisine website on the early food practices at Michigan State University. Following discussions with Susan Kooiman, my fellow Campus Archaeology fellow on this project and Dr. Goldstein, we wanted to…
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Rifling through a stack of books: Examining expressions of Norwegian national identity
In my last CHI blog post of 2016, I’ll discuss the next steps of my project, expanding from my last post regarding the visualization of cultural heritage and ethnographic topics to the overall scheme and vision of my own project on Norwegian national identity. As with most large scale and content heavy projects, mine has…
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Project Introduction: Directory of Oneota Scholars
Project Description: My dissertation research focuses on Oneota populations living in Illinois. Artifacts attributed to the Oneota have been found primarily in Iowa, Wisconsin, and Minnesota. Because of the variety of Oneota sites and the different geographic areas where artifacts have been found, it is difficult to parse out who is currently studying or has previously studied…
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Gliding through time!
Last time I described my idea for my CHI fellowship project, an interactive timeline on Michigan’s Archaeological history. I have had plenty of time to play with this idea and test out several different means to try and get a functioning timeline on my web page. I think I have finally decided on using Timeglider…
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Timeline of Michigan Archaeology
I’ve been thinking a lot these last few weeks about my project for my CHI fellowship. As I have mentioned before, I strongly believe in making archaeology accessible to a broad range of people. In my work with the State Archaeologist of Michigan, as well as with various school groups, I’ve noticed that there are…
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Navigating the visualization of language and identity in Norway
Since my last blog, I’ve ruminated upon the overall purpose of my CHI project; it first shall serve as the digital component to my Master’s thesis, and it second shall serve as that culmination of my background in history, information technology, and anthropology. But even more important, this project serves to digitally represent a somewhat…