Archive for the “anthropology” category

Cataloging and Using Anthropological Metadata

by Diana on May 4, 2010

So, in my last post I talked about coding and no I don’t mean coding as in scripting or writing programming code (though it is just as tedious), I’m talking about coding qualitative data. For those non-anthropologist among my readers, (…)

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Fedora Research Interviews

by Diana on January 22, 2010

I hope you all are enjoying the new year. I had so much fun at FUDcon getting to know as many people as I could and participating in your wonderful Barcamp and Hackfest. You were all very welcoming and showed (…)

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Hello Fedora!

by Diana on November 20, 2009

Hi! First, I’d like to introduce myself. My name is Diana and I am an anthropologist currently in the midst of attaining my Masters degree in Applied Anthropology from the University of North Texas. As a part of my studies (…)

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Two Bits – A mini-review

by Diana on November 15, 2009

I just finished reading Two Bits by Christopher Kelty. I haven’t really had time to sit and think too much about it yet, but one thing that does jump out at me immediately is that the author is an anthropologist (…)

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A helpful list…

by Diana on April 22, 2008

At the end of my quantitative methods class this semester my professor listed out these points as what we are now capable of doing from an anthropological perspective. I found it helpful and think others would to! Selling what you’ve (…)

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