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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
This week, we presented our final project, msu.seum, to our fieldschool counterparts in the Campus Archaeology Program and I have to say that it was the high point of the week for me. Though we have been hard at work this week developing the user interface, coding, and compiling content, this was the first opportunity […]
While the CHI Fieldschool has been working on a series of small projects, the ultimate goal of the fieldschool is to produce a significant cultural heritage informatics project. It is important to note that the goal of the fieldschool was to dictate the scope and nature of this final project, and then have the students […]
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