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Map Style Challenges and Mysteries
Last Friday the CHI Fellows continued work on our Mapping Memory project, getting into the actual coding and design of our map. Because we are working in a large group, we identified the three main tasks (design, data entry, and time slider building) and subdivided into three teams, each working on one of those elements.…
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Mapping Out Untold Histories!
In my previous blog post, I made known my plans of representing aspects of Nzulezo people’s history in digital format, precisely in an interactive web map, using resourcing like Mapbox and Leaflet. The people of Nzulezo are a community of Ghanaians who live in the middle of the Amanzule River in southwestern Ghana. My ongoing dissertation…
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Mapping Memories 2022
Hello CHI Community! This week we are working on our mapping memory project. As one of our rapid development projects, our current prompt asks us to create a website to display a narrative of our choosing based on some linked geographic coordinates over some span of time. While a bit open ended, this allows us…
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Then and Now: Revisiting the Rapid Development Projects as a Senior Fellow
During October, we completed our first Rapid Development Challenge of the year. This first project consists of developing a two page project vision document and then transforming that document into a website. Brainstorming a new project with new collaborators was exciting–despite having the same options of heritage institutions to choose from as last year, my…
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Fishing for Fun in Building a Pitch Website
Over the past couple of weeks, the fellows in the CHI lab have been working through the process of taking an idea for a digital heritage project from vision, to vision document, and then to the creation of a pitch website. As part of the group developing an idea for the Reykjavik Maritime Museum, I…
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Troubleshooting DH Projects
In discussing DH pedagogy, it feels inevitable that whatever project you’re working on will “break” – technically speaking – during the semester. Although some DH scholars have made compelling arguments about the utility of failure when employing DH tools in the classroom, if the course is not designed to be DH at its core, I…
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Vision Document to Website
Hello CHI Community! It’s been a crazy last month in Chi, as we learned more about planning and implementing digital heritage projects through small rapid development projects. First, we were asked to create a Vision Documents (or a two-page snippet on your project’s scope, goals, audience, data, and partners) of an idea to build…
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Learning Curves, Hindsight, and Setting Goals
It’s October again, which means it’s time for the mid-semester crunch! Right now in the CHI calendar, we’re working through a series of rapid development challenges, most of which focus on the technical skills we’ll need to complete our projects. In addition to brushing up on our coding and design abilities, these challenges can help…
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Vision Document: A GPS to DH Projects
Over the past few weeks, we’ve learned much about cultural heritage and the processes involved in digitizing cultural heritage. UNESCO defines cultural heritage as material culture (artifacts, monuments, structures, landscapes, etc.) and intangible cultural attributes (oral traditions, language, social practices, cuisine, etc.) of a group, community, or society that are transmitted intergenerationally, used and maintained…
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Summer Research in Stratford
It’s hard to believe that it’s already October–it feels like I was just in Stratford doing some research for my dissertation yesterday, but it has been three months. At the end of last year, I was awarded funds from MSU’s College of Arts and Letters to conduct research abroad. As such, I spent the end…