13 posts with this tag
Introducing MINA | Map Indian Archaeology
September 05, 2016 | By Neha Gupta
This is my final post for the Institute. I take this opportunity to thank Ethan and Lynne for the chance to participate in the Institute. I am grateful to the faculty and participants for their ideas and support. Collectively, the Institute has been incredibly encouraging and I am thrilled to...
Introducing underwatermaya, the web page
August 31, 2016 | By Heather McKillop
Welcome to Maya world, underwater archaeological research on ancient Maya wooden architecture preserved in a peat bog below the sea floor in a shallow, salt-water lagoon on the coast of Belize, Central America. Join me in the discovery and mapping of the underwater wooden structures and the other salt...
On Beginnings: The Future of the Dead is Digital
August 31, 2016 | By Katherine Cook
The Monumental Archive Project launched officially last week as the culmination of the Digital Archaeology Institute at Michigan State University. One year ago, almost to the day, I penned the first MAP blog (and in fact, one of my first blogs ever). One Heritage Jam entry, one hackathon, and many...
A Virtual Museum
August 31, 2016 | By Alex Parsons
It’s been a little over a week now since the Institute ended. The second meeting was very different from the first because we were all working on our projects while we were in Michigan. We had informative lectures in the morning about a variety of topics then worked on our...
What’s your digital style?
August 29, 2016 | By Ann Stahl
Having had the privilege to work with a remarkable group of collegial and creative people through the Digital Archaeology Institute (DAI), I’ve observed a continuum of styles that I’ve come to think as “cannon ballers” and “toe dippers.” Cannon ballers fearlessly plunge themselves into the digital deep end, reveling in...
Only the beginning
August 29, 2016 | By Matthew Pike
With a week of reflection after departing MSUDAI 2.0, I have come to realize that what I was able to create in the CopperMINeS Digital Atlas is nowhere near a finished product (not a surprise) but is actually a fantastic starting point from which I can build what I envisioned...
Final Thoughts on MSUDAI, Crowdsourcing, and the World of Digital Archaeology
August 29, 2016 | By Michele Koons
I am so grateful to have experienced MSUDAI. What an amazing group of dedicated individuals! I am now back to the daily rush and hoping I can hang onto all that I’ve learned and absorbed over the last year. I’m not going to lie; I wish I was able to...
Defining the End Game
August 26, 2016 | By Alice-Lynn McMichael
As I compose my final blog post and white paper
#MSUDAI: post processing
August 21, 2016 | By Jolene Smith
I’m sitting in the Detroit airport on two hours of sleep (after staying up way too late and waking up way too early) and feeling feelings. Wednesday after we finished our day at the Institute it hit me. We had passed the halfway point for the week. We were closer...
Ready to Launch
August 14, 2016 | By Sarah M. Rowe
As we approach the second week of the Institute and the official launch of our projects, my main emotion is amazement that I actually managed to put together something close to what I intended. I started off pretty much as a complete novice about digital methods. The one place where...
On producing
August 14, 2016 | By Kate Ellenberger
This is another blog post about the inner life of a researcher pursuing a digital humanities project. Surprise, surprise, I am being introspective again. Today we all arrive in Michigan for year 2 of the Institute, and I’ve been working on my Day 1 presentation, reflecting on my progress. When...
Cleaning and Clarifying
August 11, 2016 | By Alice Lynn McMichael
This year’s project has been an exercise in exploring what “data” means in the humanities and thinking about research as data collection. It has left me pondering how, on one hand, initial research and data collection and the data cleaning process(es) can be viewed as a single, messy procedure, or...