2011 Cultural Heritage Informatics Fieldschool

This week’s project, wherein we collaborated with the MSU Campus Archaeology Fieldschool, was to create a user experience that facilitates an interaction with the heritage of the University’s campus. We were given the choice to work with Foursquare or Gowalla, both mobile check-in services. This project was an interesting experience itself that highlighted how we can […]

As we finish up this week’s joint project with MSU Archaeology, I’ve been contemplating the role of time within geo-locative applications.   How does a historian, curator or archaeologist- employing the same technology used for contemporary social networking purposes- represent a physical location as it was in the past without completely differentiating those materials from […]