Recently, Steve Buttry posed a question on twitter and in his blog: “Should a journalist livetweet a funeral? If so how?” The article discusses two particular funerals that were live tweeted and further discussed in corresponding blogs. The full article by Buttry can be read here, but I will summarize his discussion and comments. Funerals … Continue reading »
Over on the MSU Cultural Heritage Informatics website I have a new blog post on defining Digital Archaeology. With the diversification of digital technologies and the integration of these into archaeology, it becomes necessary for us to begin asking questions about the role of digital in the discipline. This stems from the recent debates by … Continue reading »
Sorry for the recent lack of posts. I’ve been having computer problems. Hopefully my new MacBook Pro will prevent further delays. Normal posts will resume this next week. In the meantime, check out my post over at the Cultural Heritage Informatics Initiative website: 3D Modeling to Recreate and Understand Heritage
For those of you visiting London or in London, check out Streetmuseum Londinium (releasing July 25th) free from the iPod store. The app uses augmented reality to show you artifacts, pictures, videos and sounds from Roman London. Check out my full post on the app on the CHI website. Revealing Londinium Under London: New AR … Continue reading »
This weekend I am attending the Great Lakes The Humanities and Technology Camp. Today we had the chance to attend two bootcamps. I attended the WordPress and Copyright/OA bootcamps. Over on the Cultural Heritage Informatics website I posted my thoughts and what I learned from the day. View the post here: What I Learned from … Continue reading »
See my post on the Cultural Heritage Informatics blog about the Trials and Tribulations of Open Access Bioarchaeology. The post is a summary of the talk by Charlotte Roberts at the 2011 Paleopathology Association meeting and some of my own insights. You can read the post here: Trials and Tribulations of Open Access Bioarchaeology
Check out my post on the Cultural Heritage Informatics website about linked data and some examples from Scotland. Linked data consists of any information which has been connected and integrated with other information within the semantic web. The semantic web is a way of building relationships between items that are often easily connected in the … Continue reading »
My new blog post on the Cultural heritage infomatics website has been posted. In this article, I argue for opening access to archaeological resources and information to the online community. Archaeological information is precious: once we excavate our records, materials and fieldnotes are all that it left of the site. It is important that we … Continue reading »
So why are gothic ivories, a topic I wrote a post on for Cultural Heritage Informatics blog, also relevant to my mortuary archaeology blog? Because a high number of these ivories contain scenes about death and mortuary rites. Primarily they refer to the crucifixion, but other scenes regarding death are included such as the death … Continue reading »
The Mourners (www.themourners.org) is a visual digital exhibit of the tomb of the second Duke of Burgundy, John the Fearless. It is an impressive work, and in its digital format we can begin to learn more about the late medieval French ideal for funeral mourning processions. For my complete post visit http://chi.matrix.msu.edu/2010/12/01/the-mourners-a-unique-digital-archive/
