Tag: Public Archaeology
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Mapping Morton Village – Figuring Things Out
The past few weeks have been eventful for the Mapping Morton Village project, since Autumn’s blog post on 2/11, we have completed all of the content for the website, and continued working on the interactive map. Mapbox has been a bit of a struggle for us, as we could not get the data for Morton…
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Mapping Morton Village: Writing the Content
In this post, I would like to discuss what will be included within the Mapping Morton Village interactive map. For the past several weeks, Nikki Silva and myself have been working on the written content of Mapping Morton Village. We decided to write the content of the site with the public in mind, focusing on…
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Mapping Morton Village: Coding the Website
Mapping Morton Village — writing the basic code for the website. For the past two weeks, I have been working on the code for my joint CHI Fellowship project with Nikki Silva: Mapping Morton Village. We knew the general structure of what we wanted the site to look like and using a bootstrap theme I created the…
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The New Philadelphia Augmented Reality Tour App
This past week I attended the Midwest Archaeological Conference in Milwaukee, WI. One of the talks I found very interesting and relevant to our CHI Fellowship was by Christopher Fennel of University of Illinois at Urbana-Champagne, titled: New Philadelphia, Illinois: From Research Project to National Historic Landmark. He spoke about the significance of the site,…
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Adventures in Archaeology: Charlotte Marie Cable enters the digital world
Community archaeology, Mid-East anthropology, Alaska, Adventure, Cycling, and Logophilia Archaeology is the search for culture through material: intangible ideas about the world are made tangible through the ways we arrange and rearrange our physical worlds to reflect those ideas. These physical remains are what we archaeologists study: and usually, we study these remains by their…