Cultural Heritage Informatics Initiative

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  • Andra Durham | New CHI Fellow 2020-2021

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    Hello! My name is Andra Durham and I am a graduate fellow in the 2020-2021 iteration of the Cultural Heritage Informatics (CHI) fellowship. I am a second year PhD student in the Department of Anthropology. I earned my B.A. in anthropology and classics from Grand Valley State University in Allendale, Michigan in 2019 after taking…

  • Hello CHI Fellowship!

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    [et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”4.6.2″ _module_preset=”default”][et_pb_row column_structure=”2_3,1_3″ _builder_version=”4.6.2″ _module_preset=”default”][et_pb_column type=”2_3″ _builder_version=”4.6.2″ _module_preset=”default”][et_pb_post_title _builder_version=”4.6.2″ _module_preset=”default” title_font_size=”52px” meta_text_color=”#000000″ background_color=”#e09900″ text_orientation=”center” title_text_shadow_style=”preset4″ meta_text_shadow_style=”preset3″][/et_pb_post_title][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.6.2″ _module_preset=”default”] As individuals and as a field, we must interrogate our work to ensure that we are not ourselves complicit in the neoliberal practice of naming problems in order to evade their resolution (Matthew K. Gold…

  • Introducing: A Digital Domestic Cookbook

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    I have known since the beginning of the CHI Fellowship that my project would revolve around Malinda Russell, the author of A Domestic Cookbook (1866). The exact shape of the project, however, changed numerous times throughout the year. I was determined to create a digital biography of Russell during the early stages of the project.…

  • Introducing River Borders!

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    I am thrilled to launch River Borders– a website/database of river borders across the world, an outcome of my senior CHI fellowship. This website aims to be an accessible pedagogical tool for educators, specifically high school educators, by offering a centralized repository of river borders across the world. Using data from the International River Boundaries Database (IRBD) at…

  • Launching “After the Flood: How Nashville Neighborhoods Changed after the Great Flood of 2010”

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    NOTE: As of May 2021, this project has been redesigned. Check out the new website housed in GitHub. The blog post below is in reference to the previous website design and process. The process of the newly designed project is documented on a different project blog, which details the new site’s characteristics, challenges, and possible…

  • Launching “Mapping the Young Lords”

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    I’m excited to announce the completion of my CHI project “Mapping the Young Lords”. This project has seen a few iterations since I first thought about what it would be in December. The goal of the site is to visualize the consequences of public health related direct action on behalf of the Young Lords organization…

  • MSU Digital Archaeology Collections

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    This is the launch post for Zach Francis’s 2019-2020 CHI fellowship project. Click to check out the MSU Digital Archaeology Collections website! At the beginning of this year, I knew that I wanted to do something to bring the archaeological collections held by the Michigan State anthropology department into the digital world. The main motivation…

  • Call for 2020-2021 Cultural Heritage Informatics Graduate Fellowship Applications

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    The Cultural Heritage Informatics Initiative invites applications for its 2020-2021 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.

  • How Does Going Car-Free Impact Spatial Awareness?

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    I recently read an article by Dan Erickson that discussed his experiences being 10 years without a car. Erickson pointed out that not having a car can come with some baggage. In a few examples, Erickson noted that travelling with children and making long distance trips are not as easy without car. I don’t fall…

  • Working between programs and hiccups

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    For the most part, adapting Lead’s Bootleaf coding to suit my needs has been fairly flawless. I have been able to incorporate three maps, including Sherlock Holmes The Hound of Baskerville, Ouida’s Puck, and Virginia Woolf’s Flush. Somehow the database I created for William Thackeray’s Vanity Fair and Charles Dickens’ Oliver Twist has inexplicably disappeared…