The X-Lab draws on Carleton’s internationally recognized pre-existing strengths in digital humanities, data science, public history, curatorial studies, visualization, and our museum/institutional/field partnerships. The overall goal of the XLab is to foster CHI as an interdisciplinary field studying and pursuing the effective use of cultural heritage data, information, and knowledge for humanistic or scientific inquiry, problem solving, and decision making, motivated by efforts to improve human well-being. Our goal for this upcoming year: What can a cultural heritage informatics look like in Canada that is alive to the recommendations of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission?
The X-Lab is led by Shawn Graham, Dept of History. shawn dot graham at carleton dot ca
Collaborators
History
Jennifer Evans
Greek and Roman Studies
Laura Banducci
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering / Azrieli School of Architecture
Stephen Fai, Mario Santana-Quintero, Johan Voordouw
Institute of Interdisciplinary Studies
Monica Patterson
School of Computer Science
Alan Tsang, Ahmed El-Roby
School of Indigenous and Canadian Studies
Carmen Robertson
School of Journalism and Communications
Tracey Lauriault, Sandra Robinson
School of Linguistics and Language Studies
Erik Anonby
External Partners
Alexandria Archive Institute / Open Context (San Francisco, California)
Sarah Kansa, Executive Director
Canadian Museum of Nature
Sean Tudor, Head, Collections Services and Information Management
Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge University
Daniel Pett, Head of Digital and IT
Independent Exhibition Curator/Designer/Artist
Trina Cooper-Bolam, CI, ICSLAC
Indigenous Culture and Media Innovations
Monique Manatch, Executive Director
Ingenium Corporation
Ryan Dodge, Chief Digital Officer
Michigan State University
Ethan Watrall, Associate Professor, Anthropology, Director, Cultural Heritage Informatics Initiative
Museum of London Archaeology (UK)
Sara Perry, Director of Research and Engagement
University of Edinburgh
Melissa Terras, Professor of Digital Cultural Heritage
Université de Montréal
Katherine Cook, Professeure adjointe, Département d’anthropologie
University of Glasgow
Rachel Optiz, Senior Lecturer in Spatial Archaeometry (Archaeology)
University of York / Archaeology Data Service
Colleen Morgan, Lecturer in Digital Archaeology and Heritage
RA Students
The XLab and its community have been pleased to support the research and education of several MA and PhD students with Type A stipends. Their work has contributed to our XLab Confab, to helping set the research direction of the community, to sharing their own research within the ambit of cultural heritage informatics, and to the day-to-day behind the scenes that makes our community so vibrant.
Noe Bourdeau
Noah Chapman
Scott Coleman
Katherine Davidson
Kavita Mistry
Sam Nicholls
Emmy Williams
Undergrad Students
Thanks to the George Garth Graham Undergraduate Digital History Fellowship, we are also pleased to provide a home for undergraduates who wish to explore CHI without the pressure of doing so in a graded situation.
Sophie Drache