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Collaboration in Action
Earlier this semester , Georgia State Anthropology hosted a visit from Dr. Dominique Rissolo. Dr. Rissolo is an accomplished researcher and is currently a program director at the Waitt Institute and is also involved with the Center for Interdisciplinary Science for...
Look at all the Lights
Well it has been a great week here at the Exchange after a month hiatus in Eindhoven, Netherlands. Most of my week has been spent fine tuning the details of the Vacufuge safety video in Captivate 8. Yep! You heard right! We have switched from Captivate 7 to Captivate...
Innovating by Hand
All of the text above was imported in, which is why I couldn't hyperlink Touchnote. This is the only bit I've typed, save the title. As you can see, the pen has several issues, not least that it buzzes quite loudly. For some reason, the receiver picked up my 'smooth'...
Interactive Video
Hello fellow SIFers, I know people have been wondering for a way to make videos more...fun? Yeah that's the word. Because I don't think many people want to sit through a video of someone talking about an event or idea. You also don't want to make more work that is...
Collaboration
http://blogs.esri.com/esri/esri-insider/2013/02/01/the-role-of-gis-in-sustainable-economies/ ESRI, Environmental Systems Research Institute, provides software and geographic data to understand and hopefully help solve problems through spatial analysis. In the blog I...
Making Things From Discards – Vintage Craft Book Inspires Hi-Tech Art – Part 1
To continue from my previous post, I've been working on artwork that explores the relationships between craft and art as viewed through modern technological tools, specifically 3D-scanning and -Printing, and what that means in terms of gender roles and identity. I'm...
Microfilm, TEI headers and bibliographic metadata
One of the biggest and most urgent issues facing historical scholarship in the next several decades involves the transition to digital archival work, and with it the question of how the materiality of archival sources can be preserved, respected, and communicated in...
Catch-Up
Well these last few weeks have been busy, to say the least. Apart from working in CURVE, I have been catching up on my group project. Babacar, Nathan, and Valerie have filmed and added a few more professors to the long list of videos and questions that we have....
Update from the SIF Computing Team
Last Friday night, our Hoccleve Archive team has presented our work at the SAMLA Conference held at Marriott Hotel, Buck head. The theme of this year’s conference was sustainability and our team has put in efforts to highlight the work we have done suiting the theme....
The Tableau Experience
Today I attended "The Tableau Experience." I've been struggling with what to call it: a conference, a convention... It had only one speaker, and a Q&A - and a wet-bar. So... I'm settling with 'experience' as they do. What it really was though, was an...
Art Vandenberg and the World Community Grid
Today I went to the talk given in CURVE by Art Vandenberg. When I decided to attend, I didn't know what the World Community Grid was, and now I know - and I think you should know too. First, Art started off telling us a bit about himself. Here he is on the right: Art...
15th Century Poetry in Buckhead: The Hoccleve Archive hits SAMLA
Last Friday night, the SIF Hoccleve team presented our work at the South Atlantic Modern Language Association conference, held this year in Buckhead. The conference theme this year was sustainability, and our poster highlighted the way that the Hoccleve Archive...