The Keweenaw Time Traveler Team presents at the Annual Meeting of the Society of Industrial Archeology

Members of the Keweenaw Time Traveler Team presented their work at the Annual Meeting of the Society of Industrial Archeology conference in Minneapolis - Saint Paul this week. Dr. Dan Trepal shared his work entitled: ‘Mapping Hamtramck: Reconstructing Industrial Urban Landscapes for Public Archaeology and Heritage’. While Ph.D. candidate James Juip presented his work on creating meaningful engagement in digital heritage projects.

The Mapping Hamtramck project brings together the Hamtramck Historical Museum, Wayne State University, and the Keweenaw Time Traveler team in Michigan Technological University's Geospatial Research Facility, with generous financial support from the National Endowment for the Humanities in an effort to reconstruct the industrial and urban landscape of Hamtramck’s past. 

Using the Keweenaw Time Traveler as a case study James Juip’s work fills a gap in public participatory GIS research by proposing a new model that measures both the volume and depth of participation grown through public outreach activities. His presentation also described the value of this model in investigating and evaluating the current engagement program in use by the Keweenaw Time Traveler team.