Cultural Heritage Informatics Initiative

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  • Using Gowalla to Create a Historical Narrative

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    Gowalla is a mobile application that allows you to check-in to locations that you are currently located within. You can use it to interact with friends, collect stickers, or go on tours of specific areas. For the Cultural Heritage Informatics Initiative Fieldschool, our challenge last week was to create a Gowalla trip based on the…

  • Adventures in CMS & Learning by Doing

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    Prior to this year I didn’t know what CMS meant, and FTP through Filezilla was simply a program that I knew about and thought was way over my head. Over the past semester I have installed Omeka, WordPress, and Mediawiki onto a development server, and uploading through Filezilla has become second nature. While the motto…

  • Digital Duds and Collaboration Wins – Part 2

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    Historypin, timetoast, and the Brooklyn Museum website have embraced the idea that if you let the public have a shot at contributing to the development of a project, you’re going to end up with something really fantastic. After the success of collaborative projects like Wikipedia and Youtube, these newest projects continue to build upon the…

  • Digital Duds and Collaboration Wins – Part 1

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    Sixteen Tons was derived as a way to share research to other scholars, teachers, and the public based upon the many hours I spent working in archives around the world. Coming from a field where research tends to be highly guarded and secretive until your work is published, my work with the CHI initiative has…

  • Changing Directions: Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the F-Word

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    This post was supposed to be an update on my mediawiki project, the Bone Collective, a collborative wiki for bioarchaeological information. At the AAPA and PPA conferences I was going to get collaborators, and from them I would be able to get content for the site. Instead of working towards the alpha launch of the…

  • My Project-Finding Adventure

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    If you follow this blog, you may have noticed that I was the last of the fellows to come up with a project. When I first applied to this program, I had an idea in mind that I thought was a “sure thing.” There was seriously no way that anyone could have a problem letting…

  • What I learned from GLTHATCamp Bootcamps

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    Great Lakes THAT Camp bootcamps took place this Friday at the Michigan State University campus. During the day, I attended two bootcamps: Hacking WordPress and Copyright/Open Access Bootcamp. In this post, I’m going to discuss some of the skills and overall knowledge that I gleaned from my first ever day of THATCamp bootcamps. Hacking WordPress…

  • A (very) brief metadata tutorial

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    Sixteen Tons is finally starting to see some life. Unfortunately, most of this is in the form of massive chaos as I continue upload item after item into my digital repository. I’ve decided that, before I can even begin to think about the organization of the website, I need to place my items into my…

  • Linked Data: Uniting Scotland’s Past

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    One of the best parts of asking for research help at the library is the way that the librarians can link data. If I’m researching haggis, they can not only lead me to recipes and history of haggis, but will also know that overall Scottish history is pertinent and may suggest some sources I never…

  • The Digital Archive and Copyright Headaches

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    Undoubtedly, by now, there has been a lot written about the issue of copyrights and digitized archival material. Yet, I’m pretty sure no one has a definite answer for me yet. I came to Arizona to do some research this week and was determined to find an answer to this problem. In my “Sixteen Tons”…