Cultural Heritage Informatics Initiative

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  • Hello world!

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    Welcome to ANP Sites. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start writing!

  • CHI Fellowship Project Launched!

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    Today I am pleased to announce the launch of my CHI Fellowship project entitled Linguistic Semantics, Text Organization and NLP. It is an educational website whose primary function is to teach researchers in the Cultural Heritage and Digital Humanities (CHDH) communities about Natural Language semantics and how professional Linguists go about studying “meaning.” Additionally, it…

  • Launching the “Mapping Mahaweli” Project

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    I am excited to launch Mapping Mahaweli, which is the project I created as part of the CHI graduate fellowship. Mapping Mahaweli is a website that is based on the Accelerated Mahaweli Development Program (AMDP). This is Sri Lanka’s largest multipurpose national development program, initiated in 1961, aimed at large-scale development of the Mahaweli basin…

  • Explore StoryAtlas

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    Media is full of narratives. Some narratives are helpful, and some are harmful. But always, media embeds narratives in society’s collective memory. They become the first rough draft of our history. StoryAtlas was created to map narratives that matter. StoryAtlas is a website that serves two purposes. First, it is an interactive map that uses…

  • Introduction to “Trade Routes to Ambergris Caye”

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    Have you ever been traveling somewhere on vacation and come across a cool historical and/or archaeological site and thought, “Wow, I wish I knew more about this place!” I know I have, and that was one of the motivators behind my CHI project, Trade Routes to Ambergris Caye! Trade Routes to Ambergris Caye is a…

  • Mapping success!

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    Since my last post, I have had a lot of success regarding my maps. As you can see above, I have succesfully been able to put a map of Mesoamerica on the website, as well as successfully put pop-ups with information about different sites connected to Marco Gonzalez in one way or another. My future…

  • Call for 2024-2025 Cultural Heritage Informatics Graduate Fellowship Applications

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    The Cultural Heritage Informatics Initiative invites applications for its 2024-2025 Cultural Heritage Informatics Graduate Fellowship program. The Cultural Heritage Informatics Fellowships offer MSU graduate students the skills to creatively and thoughtfully apply digital methods and computational approaches to cultural heritage collections, materials, data, questions, and challenges.

  • Angelica’s Project Notes Part 1 – Design

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    Hello again! Since my last post, I’ve been busy designing the narrative and digital infrastructure for my project titled (Un)Mapping the (Settler) Colonial Forest. In this new post, I’ll outline a few key parts about this design process. First, I’ll talk about the story part of this project. After receiving feedback on my detailed proposal…

  • Mapping the News Cycle via StoryAtlas

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    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…

  • Mapping Mahaweli: writing the world from a river

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    During our last meeting in Fall 2023, I presented my proposal for the final project inspired by the second rapid development project in Sri Lanka. I proposed building a website called “Mapping Mahaweli” with a digital map that archives the historical milestones of the Accelerated Mahaweli Development Project since 1961. The website will provide a…