Tag: Public Archaeology
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Launching the Oak Bluffs Historic Highlands Map
Today is launch day and I am sharing completed my mapping project for the CHI 2021 – 2022 fellowship. For my Oak Bluffs Historic Highlands project, I have built the framework for a map that uses publicly available deed documents to represent the history of landownership in the Highlands area of Oak Bluffs, Massachusetts, a…
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Memory Mapping
As the work progresses on the framework for my map of property ownership in the Highlands area of Oak Bluffs, I can now start focusing the ways in which additional types of data will be added to the map. While the structure of the map will be the spatialized deed and census data, this information…
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Project: The Oak Bluffs Highlands History Map and the Issue of Too Many Coding “Solutions”
For my fellowship project, I will be creating an interactive, web-based map showing the history of property ownership in the Highlands area of Oak Bluffs, Massachusetts, on the island of Martha’s Vineyard. Oak Bluffs was and still is a summer resort community noted for is African American vacationing communities dating to the late 19th and…
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A Look Back on Digital Heritage During the COVID-19 Pandemic
In this blog I want to share my ongoing experience with transitioning in-person cultural heritage outreach projects into digital cultural heritage during the COVID-19 pandemic. I have been a member of Michigan State University’s Campus Archaeology Program (CAP) since 2018 and as an organization, CAP works to protect, preserve, and share the cultural heritage of…
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Introducing Myself: An Archaeologist Learning Digital Tools
My name is Jeff Burnett, a fourth-year doctoral student in the Department of Anthropology and an incoming CHI Fellow. When not in CHI I work as Campus Archaeologist, a student position in MSU’s Campus Archaeology Program. My dissertation research is an archaeological investigation of a historic resort in Oak Bluffs, Massachusetts. My work there focuses…
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Future Updates to Archaeology 101
After the successful launch of Archaeology 101 (archaeology101.com) at the end of April, Autumn and I began brainstorming ways to add to and improve the website. We also examined user feedback to better highlight areas that could be upgraded (thank you to all those who have checked out the website!). Moving forward this summer, I…
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Project Introduction: Archaeology 101
Introducing Archaeology 101! This project is a collaborative CHI project between myself and Jeffrey Painter. At the launch, this project will be an interactive website that can be used to introduce elementary and middle school students (and other interested parties) to archaeology!
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Incorporating 3D Models into Archaeological Outreach
Public outreach and engagement is an essential part of archaeological research. For the past year and a half, I have served as the Campus Archaeologist for the Michigan State University Campus Archaeology Program (CAP). One of the projects that the Campus Archaeology Program has focused on during my tenure is researching and implementing new outreach…
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Making Archaeology Accessible
These past few weeks I’ve been pondering what to do for my CHI fellowship project. This has prompted a lot of introspection on what I think is important about digital cultural heritage, along with many internet searches. One of my core beliefs is that archaeology, in some form, should be accessible to the public (this…
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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…