After five weeks of intensive exploration of the role of technology within cultural heritage, the inceptive CHI fieldschool at Michigan State University is officially finished. The end product of our course, msu.seum, has me thinking about the value of mobile technology within cultural heritage. As a native iOS and Android app entirely devised and implemented […]
Although we didn’t check off every item on our feature wish list for msu.seum, I’m very proud of the application we built. The content, design and programming coalesced into a fairly polished alpha application. We reached that point in two weeks thanks to coordination. Each team did a great job of pulling things together by […]
As part of the programming team for msu.seum, our task was to dive head first into Phonegap, jQuery Mobile, Google Maps API and the various flavors of javascript included in them. In order to start building the app, we had to quickly get our bearings with the various frameworks and APIs. Below, are some of the strategies […]
“You study… culture? What are you gonna do with that?” Throughout my pursuit of higher education, my answer to the question, “So, Rachael, what are you studying?” is always countered with, “And what is that? What do you do?” My studies in the humanities – Cultural Studies as an undergrad, now Digital Rhetoric and Professional […]
The most noticeable barrier to entry with location-based applications is that not everyone has a smart phone. However, there is another, arguably more sizable, barrier to entry than the lack of a smart phone: location. Even those with smart phones may not have the resources to go to places required to make use of location-based […]
Concept for a Social Library/Archive Name: Event Album Project Description: Event Album would be a mobile application that allows users to collectively document events through media: pictures, videos and audio. While at events, users can see what media others are capturing through a location based “media stream” within the mobile application. Users can also participate […]
Alexis Santos here, I’m studying anthropology and archaeology at New College of Florida where I will be a senior working towards my B.A. next August. I love technology. I’m the Online Editor for New College’s student newspaper (the Catalyst), I write a somewhat weekly technology column, I’ve done some video game news blogging in addition to a dash of […]
I’d like to take this opportunity to welcome welcome everyone (both students and those who are watching remotely) to the inaugural Cultural Heritage Informatics Fieldschool. The CHI Fieldschool is an outgrowth of the Cultural Heritage Informatics Initiative at Michigan State University, and is intended to introduce students to the tools and techniques required to creatively apply […]
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