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The Historical Society of Michigan has awarded the State History Award in its Websites category to Keweenaw Time Traveler partners, the Michigan Tech Archives, for the Copper Country Historical Images Database (CCHI). The CCHI is a collaboration between the Michigan Tech Archives and the Van Pelt and Opie Library's Digital Scholarship initiative. The image database, designed by KeTT team member Bob Cowling, has evolved onto the open-source Drupal platform and integrates interactive map-based discovery tools with engaging metadata, moderated community-based comments, and commerce features that allow controlled access to the high-resolution imagery. The Keweenaw Time Traveler was awarded this honor in 2023.
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Drs. Don Lafreniere and James Juip presented two papers at the 6th Conference of the European Society of Historical Demography. The conference took place at the Universita di Bologna, the oldest university in continuous operation in the world, from September 10th-13th. Discussion centered around the theme of minorities and majorities in historical populations. Both papers were presented in a session entitled 'Geospatial Approaches in Historical Demography'. The session started with 'Hazards in Children's Environments and their Impact on Social Mobility throughout Life-course', authored by James Juip and Don Lafreniere. This paper was followed by 'Modelling Neighborhoods for Historical Spatio-Demographic Analysis' authored by Don Lafreniere, James Townsend and James Juip. The session was rounded out by papers entitled 'Comparison of spatiotemporal evolution of infectious diseases in Belgium (1890-1950)', by Valentin Charlier, Thierry Eggerickx, Sophie O. Vanwambeke and 'The Lethal Grip of Heat: Mapping the Heat Wave - Mortality Nexus in Spain', by Dariya Ordanovich, Diego Ramiro, Aurelio Tobías, Ana Casanueva.