At the moment, I am not concerned about my group being on track with our project. We have successfully completed our first two big goals, which were (1) to finish digitizing the letters and their transcriptions and (2) to visit the Fredericksburg Battlefield Visitor Center and Confederate Cemetery to collect photos for our introductory video. Currently, our next task is to upload all the letters and transcriptions to the site, but we are slightly behind on this for a few reasons. Firstly, we are having to correct typos in the transcriptions of Murray’s letters. Secondly, we have not yet decided on a file format to place the letter scans on the site. Lastly, Slaughter’s letters have to be uploaded after Murray’s or else the collections will mix when site users click “next item.” So, we have to finish uploading Murray’s letters before Slaughter can be completed, so this fact has set us back a bit. We will also be beginning to work on the StoryMapJS to trace George Murray’s movements with the 114th PA during the war. My main concern with this is whether we are able to work on it as you would a Google doc, with one group member creating the map and then sharing it so others are able to work on it when they have time. If this is not possible, we may have to get together as a group and complete it.
