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Looking forward to Digital Humanities at the African Studies Association
As I progress through the CHI-Fellowship I have continued to learn about the important role of digital humanities for myself as both a scholar and instructor. In the past few weeks, I have become more comfortable with GitHub, Timeline.JS, bootstrap, leaflet, and numerous other digital tools. I look forward to not only producing my own…
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Mapping What Is/Isn’t There
As a new fellow, I’m still getting a sense of what this all means, so please excuse the LiveJournal nature of the first few posts. Mapping, in my discipline, means something different than it does in most contexts. Essentially, mapping is an acknowledgment of “signposts”— trends, notable events, themes— across a story. At least this…
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Digital Project Presentation
This past weekend I attended NAVSA to present the little bit I have built on QGIS. I map nonhuman animals across Victorian fiction, along with their human companions. I incorporate various attributes into my database such as race, class, breed, gender, ability, etc., to explore why we write about nonhuman animals. Why do they appear…
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Food Mapping in Digital Historical Research
I am a visual person. I thrive off of color and aesthetics. For me, writing words is just one part of how I want to share my research. Graphs, maps, photographs, and hand-written recipes or notes provide tangible information that I think is necessary for expressing ideas or sharing information to a wider audience. Not…
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Building a Vision
The fellowship this year has been very eventful and a lot of fun. So far, I worked with James and Kyeesha to come up with a vision document for incorporating virtual reality (VR) into the Canadian Museum for Human Rights. Though I believe none of us are experts in the field of VR, it was…
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Summer Update to Africa’s Imperial Commodities
This summer, I updated Africa’s Imperial Commodities, a digital history project that explores export data from Africa to Europe. I added a new commodity page that examines the history of gum exports from West Africa. Additionally, I updated other pages to elaborate on the historical context and to engage more fruitfully with the limitations of…
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Launching: Weaving Heritage
I am thrilled to launch my CHI project: Weaving Heritage! I hope you’ll take the time to look through the site and check out the models that are available. Visitors can examine and compare the design difference between Yvonne and Arnolds’ work as well as learn a bit about quill boxes. Yvonne’s pieces are especially…
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CHIMIRA Launch Post
CHIMIRA is a metadata schema created for the management and description of cultural heritage assets within an archaeological purview. This metadata schema was incorporated into a digital repository for MSU collections. While the digital repository has been finished and data entry is under way, there is currently no front-end framework to display these data…
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Introducing Africa’s Imperial Commodities
I’m launching Africa’s Imperial Commodities, a digital history project that explores export data from Africa to Europe in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The website includes essays that contextualize the available data and data visualizations that allow users to engage with the information in the underlying dataset. The three main essays on the website feature…
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Data Fears
The metadata scheme for my digital repository is finished and entered into KORA. There is now officially a place to enter data from the MSU archaeological collections online, and I am ecstatic. There is, however, still the fear that what I built may have hidden issues. This fear in part stems from a few talks…