4 July 2011 Comments Off on msu.seum, sustainability, and the future

msu.seum, sustainability, and the future

To begin, I’d like to illustrate msu.seum by the numbers… 6 CHI fieldschool students 2 programmers 2 UX designers 2 content curators 10 days 60 hours… officially – some have kept working off the clock! over 1000 commits to our file repository 42 folders and subfolders 300+ files, all manually generated and coded msu.seum is […]

9 June 2011 Comments Off on Time and Space : Geo-Locating the Past

Time and Space : Geo-Locating the Past

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 […]

30 May 2011 Comments Off on Welcome to the Cultural Heritage Informatics Fieldschool

Welcome to the Cultural Heritage Informatics Fieldschool

Welcome to the Cultural Heritage Informatics Fieldschool

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 […]