Cultural Heritage Informatics Initiative

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  • Making as World-Making

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    Part of my goal in the CHI fellowship has been to explore an idea I have been developing over the last year about queer multimodal composing: that the act of making things can make worlds. I’m definitely not the first person to have developed an understanding of making as world-making, and I owe much of…

  • Different kinds of distance: some thoughts on maps

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    This is my second blog post for the CHI fellowship. Today I’m thinking and writing about digital maps, and how those let us see cultural and social divides in the present and the past. Africa’s a Country, a website whose purpose is to counter that old mistake Western people make about Africa, recently published a…

  • Capturing Campus Cuisine: The Interactive Atlas

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    Over the past several weeks I have made significant progress on the final detail of the Capturing Campus Cuisine website: the interactive atlas! Originally, I was planning this interactive user feature to be a timeline map, that would allow visitors to move through the Early Period on campus (from 1855-1870) exploring different locations on campus…

  • Responsive Rhetoric

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    This week has been a hard one and the year has had a rocky start for me: I have been sick, and I am concerned about the recent news that overlaps with my community and research. President Trump is making way for Keystone XL and the Dakota Access pipeline (DAPL). Opposition to these two pipelines…

  • Wading Through Skeletal Aging Literature and Raphael.js

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    Apologies for my tardiness in posting!  It’s been an incredibly hectic semester so far and time keeps on slipping away! Since my project is focused on subadult skeletal age estimation, I’ve really started going through the literature and publications over the subject.  On one hand, this is a great way for me to conduct in-depth…

  • Decisions, decisions, decisions.

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    One of the challenges I have when doing research is focusing my work and narrowing the topic. I do not think this is an unusual issue to have. However, it is one I have struggled with this past month. I think this is obvious from my last post. When I first talked with Ethan about…

  • Subadult Skeletal Age Estimation

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    As it gets later and later into the semester, I’ve started trying to put together ideas for my CHI project.  While I’ve been thinking about what specifically I would like to do, there was one notion that kept popping up in my head: make accessible, usable, and relevant for other people, not just myself.  Sometimes…

  • Looking forward

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    Hello! O’siyo! こにちわ! It is November and we are moving further into web design and interactive visuals in our cohort work. I am getting excited about planning my project. I know I want to do something with visuals, space/place, and water. I am still holding onto the idea of working with the water systems in…

  • Changing Gears

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    When I first began thinking about a prospective CHI fellowship project, I wanted to map the Underground Railroad between Detroit and Windsor, specifically spatializing where and how people escaped. In the last few weeks however, I have begun to think about fundamentally changing my project. My primary reason for this is that I am studying…

  • Introducing Jack Biggs and the Digitization and 3D Modeling of Human Skeletal Remains

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    Hi everyone! So I tried to post my introduction blog a while back but I guess I somehow messed it up and it never appeared so this is going to be a double blog today. My name is Jack Biggs and I am a 3rd year PhD candidate in the Department of Anthropology. My focus…