36 posts with this tag
Wanna collect data digitally?
September 06, 2016 | By Ben Carter
This is my final post as a participant in the Institute for Digital Archaeology. This post serves three purposes. First, I announce a resource that I have created to enable digital data collection in archaeology. Second, I want to mention a few of my favorite aspects of the Institute. Finally,...
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...
Alpha and Omega: Perspectives on Digital First Landscapes
August 30, 2016 | By Kathryn Sampeck
I am experiencing a bit of a philosophical conundrum. How can something end, when it feels like it is just the beginning? In my case, I started, then I stopped, then I started again. And now it’s over, but I am going. The conundrum deepens, as I have a launchless...
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...
Virtual Valdivia Official Launch
August 29, 2016 | By Sarah M. Rowe
My project, Virtual Valdivia, is an online repository of ceramics pertaining to the Valdivia culture (ca. 4400-1450 BC) of coastal Ecuador. The project developed as outgrowth of my dissertation research, which examined variation in ceramic assemblages at multiple Valdivia sites. This inter-site comparison was the first of its kind undertaken...
Virginia Archaeology for Everyone: That's [Almost] A Wrap!
August 29, 2016 | By Jolene Smith
Update! 9/8/2016
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...
Reflections on Digital Project Workflow and the Final Product
August 13, 2016 | By Stacey Camp
As this year is slowly coming to a close and the NEH seminar is next week, I’ve thought a lot about the workflow and the meandering path I have taken to finish up this project. I began with very ambitious goals, and then had to winnow them down as I...
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...
Wireframes!
August 10, 2016 | By Jolene Smith
With the help of the wonderful folks at MATRIX, I’m still trying my darnedest (and not succeeding) at getting the KORA WordPress plugin to work. Which means I’m still a little stalled. Since I don’t yet know how the plugin behaves and I’m new at significant WordPress fiddling, I don’t...
Unearthing the Past: Archaeology and Public Outreach
September 13, 2015 | By Judy Voelker
My name is Judy Voelker, I am an associate professor of anthropology at Northern Kentucky University (NKU). I also serve as Director at the NKU Museum of Anthropology where we strive for ways for students to understand and analyze human interactions. The museum promotes cultural awareness through exhibits, presentations, and...
The Story of Cave Rock
September 04, 2015 | By Beth Smith
Cave Rock, located at Lake Tahoe in Nevada, is an important landscape feature to the communities of the Tahoe Basin and the focus of my Institute project. The prominent rock outcrop extends down from the Tahoe Basin rim into the water, and is a sentinel feature with important cultural associations...
Fun with Project Management: High-Level Fog
September 04, 2015 | By Jolene Smith
This week’s task was very high-level planning,
Colorado Community-Based Archaeology
September 04, 2015 | By Michele Koons
Hi! My name is Michele Koons. As Curator of Archaeology at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science (DMNS), my job is to conduct field research, communicate archaeology effectively to a wide audience, and curate the archaeology collection. It was a true honor to have the opportunity to attend the...
Publishing Fort Snelling Collections Data to Demonstrate Its Value for Both Research and Interpretive Projects
September 03, 2015 | By Nancy Hoffman
I plan to publish electronic catalog records for the Historic Fort Snelling archaeology collections held by the Minnesota Historical Society (MNHS) to Open Context to make them available for scholarly research, specifically for use by University of Minnesota research partner Dr. Kathryn Hayes and her students. Using the Open...
Accessing the Alfred W. Bowers Laboratory of Anthropology's Archaeological Repository
September 03, 2015 | By Stacey Camp
It has been close to two weeks since I left MSU’s Institute for Digital Archaeology Method & Practice, and my mind is still on information overload from all the tools, techniques, and new technologies I acquired while attending it. My name is Stacey Camp and I currently serve a dual...
Web-based Deliverable: Interactive Tour
September 02, 2015 | By Tabitha Hilliard
The purpose of this project is to create a web-based deliverable that will enhance community interest in local heritage. The site of interest is located in the Pinelands of New Jersey. I am still working out the details with the project partners at this time. Until a final agreement is...
The Northern Indigenous Copper Technology Database
September 02, 2015 | By Matthew Pike
Over the last 2 years I have been compiling a database of copper artifacts from across Northern North America, with a specific focus on Arctic and Subarctic contexts from the Northwest Territories and Nunavut, Canada. This dataset builds upon an already substantial database of copper artifacts from Alaska, Yukon, and...
ReCreating Natchez: Starting from the Bottom
September 02, 2015 | By Ashley Peles
Hi everyone! My name is Ashley Peles and I am currently a doctoral candidate at UNC-Chapel Hill. My research is based around understanding foodways through both floral and faunal analysis. In particular, my doctoral research involves the analysis of assemblages from three Late Woodland mound sites in the Lower Mississippi...
Map Indian Archaeology
September 02, 2015 | By Neha Gupta
Hello, I want to introduce you to “Map Indian Archaeology”, a web-based map platform that can enable linking to dynamic and static sources of information on the practice of archaeology in India. Archaeology in Independent India is socially and politically sensitive. This situation impacts the collection and interpretation of archaeological...
Fostering Interaction among Interaction Specialists
September 02, 2015 | By Emily Stovel
South American archaeologists, much like archaeologists all over the world, are experts at exploring ancient interaction: who was moving where, what they took with them, and who they spent time with. A topic that created a lot of research and buzz over the last 10 years, for example, was possible...
Catalina Island Eagles Nest Hunting Lodge
September 02, 2015 | By Wendy Teeter
My name is Wendy Giddens Teeter, Curator of Archaeology at the Fowler Museum at UCLA. As an archaeologist I am a Co-Director of the Pimu Catalina Island Archaeology Project (PCIAP). This blog is to document the creation of a website to present our work at Eagles Nest Hunting Lodge on...
Archaeology as Outreach
September 02, 2015 | By Mary Lennon
I am Mary Lennon from AECOM’s Cultural Resource Management (CRM) Office in Burlington, NJ. I will be doing a project based on one of our most recent excavations. Before I can announce the particulars, there are a few conversations that need to happen with our client. I will update you...
Banda through Time: Building Public Engagement and a Stable Digital Repository
August 31, 2015 | By Ann Stahl
My name is Ann Stahl and I chair the Department of Anthropology at the University of Victoria in British Columbia, Canada. Since 1986 I’ve coordinated the Banda Research Project (BRP) which centers on how villagers in the Banda area of west central Ghana have engaged shifting global entanglements. These include...
Institute Applications Now Closed – Next Steps
February 15, 2015 | By Ethan Watrall
Well, its official folks – the application deadline for the NEH funded Institute for Digital Archaeology Method and Practice has passed. Quite honestly, we’re blown away by the amount of interest the institute has received. We received 187 applications from every corner of the archaeological (and associated disciplinary) world. CRM...
Announcing the Institute for Digital Archaeology Method & Practice
November 24, 2014 | By Ethan Watrall
Archaeology has a long history of innovative work with information and computing technologies. One of the earliest example comes from James Deetz’s seminal work on Arikara ceramics carried out in the very early 1960s. Deetz used an IBM mainframe (the IBM704 at the MIT Computation Laboratory, to be precise) to...