Have you ever been traveling somewhere on vacation and come across a cool historical and/or archaeological site and thought, “Wow, I wish I knew more about this place!” I know I have, and tha...
https://chi.anthropology.msu.edu/2024/04/introduction-to-trade-routes-to-ambergris-caye/
Since my last post, I have had a lot of success regarding my maps. As you can see above, I have succesfully been able to put a map of Mesoamerica on the website, as well as successfully put pop-u...
The Cultural Heritage Informatics Initiative invites applications for its 2024-2025 Cultural Heritage Informatics Graduate Fellowship program. The Cultural Heritage Informatics Fellowships offer ...
For my project, I wanted to look at the differences between a national newspaper (The New York Times) and a local newspaper (The StarTribune) in coverage of the murder of George Floyd. What are t...
We discussed this at the beginning of CHI, but what I’ve learned the most through this fellowship is that failing does not equal losing. Of course, that doesn’t mean it doesn’t cause me to ...
https://chi.anthropology.msu.edu/2024/03/to-fail-fail-fail-again/
In my last post I wrote about preparing to build a web map to illustrate the spatial reach of postcards featuring images of Native American Boarding Schools. Good news: the map is coming along ni...
https://chi.anthropology.msu.edu/2024/02/how-to-make-a-web-map/
analysis, geojson for the data translation, and JavaScript for the interactive functionality. Don't ask me why I decided to do it this way. I've never taken the easy road in my life. Every time I...
https://chi.anthropology.msu.edu/2024/02/standing-on-the-shoulders-of-open-source-giants/
In my last blog post, I discussed a few details about my current CH/DH NLP research project where I intend to investigate to what extent a corpus can be “reconstructed” using NLP techniques. ...
https://chi.anthropology.msu.edu/2024/02/we-can-always-do-more-natural-language-semantics/
In my last post, I wrote about what I was hoping to develop for my final project as a CHI Fellow. I planned to create a digital archive for materials associated with the historical Mt Pleasant In...
https://chi.anthropology.msu.edu/2024/02/digitizing-postcards-mapping-memory/
Art Historical Cannon in America The most popular and highly sought after art museums hold a great significance to how society learns about different types of artwork. The National Gallery of Art...
https://chi.anthropology.msu.edu/2024/02/representation-as-a-bridge-to-inclusivity-in-art/