Tag: CHI Fellows
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Ethics in Virtual Osteology | What Should We Be Considering?
With the use of three-dimensional modeling and printing becoming more commonplace in cultural heritage with the digital preservation of artifacts and sites, ethical standards must also be considered in the replication of any cultural aspect. People might not immediately think of forensic sciences or anatomy being immediately connected to culture, but this is where anthropology…
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Some reflections…after doing this two times
This website began as an assignment as I was trying to define the rationale and parameters of my project. I stumbled upon the International River Boundaries Database (IRBD) and realized its significance. But it has taken five years to articulate and realize my vision. In making this website I realized a few things: First, I…
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Introducing River Borders!
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…
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Challenges of JS—creating a word cloud
One of the most exciting parts of the CHI Fellowship experience are the weekly challenges. A challenge I really dread is anything involving JavaScript. During my first tenure as a CHI fellow, I assiduously avoided JS. I happily built the HTML code ground up, broke lots of things, before finally having something workable. When I did…
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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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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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The Simpler, The Better: Photo Carousels
I’ve often complained about introductory-level tutorials that operate under the assumption that you know something about programming. While in some cases I’ve successfully worked through a particularly difficult tool or explanation, ultimately what I’ve learned is: there’s probably an easier way.
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Daniel Fandino and CHI: Second Verse, Different from the First
Greetings traveler on the great ocean of knowledge that is the internet! My name is Daniel Fandino and I am a second year PhD student in the Department of History at Michigan State University and a 2018 – 2019 Cultural Heritage Informatics Senior Fellow. My research is centered on the study of U.S. – Japan…
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Future Tense – Digital Humanities, Technology, and the Scholar
As a historian in training in academia today, the question of technology goes beyond the subjects I study into the current state of the profession I have chosen to enter. In teaching digital tools to undergraduate classes I see a break as substantial as the line between the generation before and after the advent of…
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Mapping Morton Village: User Interaction
We have made some major progress since Nikki’s post last week! Not only have we figured out our toggling layer problem, we have placed the interactive map into our website! While we still have some little things to keep working on and adding to the website, our focus is now on user interaction. How do we…