by Katherine Cook | Aug 29, 2016 | Institute Project, Updates
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...
by Katherine Cook | Jun 15, 2016 | Updates
As an archaeologist, I often talk about how objects have agency. They can make us move, act, and think in particular ways. The ‘Berlin key’, for example, forces users to lock doors whenever they are closed (see Bruno Latour‘s work). Monuments make us remember...
by Katherine Cook | May 16, 2016 | Updates
With the August deadlines/launch/return to Michigan pending, and having gone down many digital rabbit holes, most of which were not foreseen and only some of which were successful, I find myself facing the realities of what I have, how much time I have left, and what...
by Katherine Cook | Apr 18, 2016 | Updates
Forgive me fellow digital archaeologists for I have sinned, I am a week late in my MSU DAI blog post. At the time of the deadline, I was in the throes of my PhD thesis viva (aka defense) and was wholly and completely entrenched in the process. However, given that the...
by Katherine Cook | Mar 16, 2016 | Updates
As a participant in a recent Hackathon, I also became a participant in an academic study of the role and format of social networks in the creative process by a graduate student from Rutgers University. As we ‘hacked and yakked’ about web archives, data mining and...
