So we are officially done! Or at least as close as we can be with edits still to do. Now its time to talk about my final thoughts on the project as a whole. This project was an extremely long one, and at times extremely aggravating. A lot had to be changed as time went …
Author: Digital History 2018
Last week
Well it’s the last week of classes. That means we are done with the project, or at least mostly done. While there is still an update to do and a presentation to give on it, we finally finished it. The website looks all good and works fine. A lot of my work for the final …
Week 12 updates
So this week we were finally able to finish the metadata for our project. This means all we have to do is configure the photos a bit so that they can be uploaded fine, batch them all together, and then we are finished with the majority if not all the website! Along with those pictures, …
Week 10
This week, we were required to read several articles and from them see what the major changes for historians are in this digital era. From the readings, the key changes I saw were: User friendly programs/websites A key change for historians in a digital era is the focus now on friendlier programs and websites for …
Five things I learned about digital identity from…
Creating Your Web Presence: A Primer for Academics by Prof. Hacker What I liked about this article is that it talked about using social media websites that I was more accustomed to hearing in the frame of “don’t use” or “never use.” I understand why there is the fear and large warning against using …
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Update for week 8
So far, our project is going faster than expected! This week I was able to convert the TIFF files to JPEGS and put them all on the NPS’s external hard drive, which means we are almost done with our digitizing requirements! This also means we will have to now put all those pages into the …
Progress
We have finally finished scanning the register, save the cover and binding, which is great and means the rest of the project can start. Nick also finished the map, so a couple of us have begun to help him in putting the names of known soldiers in their rows. We are using both a google …
Wikipedia, Creative Commons, and Project Progress
Wikipedia: For this week’s blog assignment I looked at the Wikipedia articles for Malcolm X, the Battle of Valverde, and Internment of Japanese Americans. Through all three I found the history on them to be mostly changes on information and spelling mistakes. What I found most interesting was comparing the talk sections of each. I …
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Rethinking Contract
This week we got our contracts back to revise and it became clear that we needed to work a lot more on it. Luckily for our group, a lot of work was cut down as we found out we no long have to make files for every known soldier, which is a huge load off …
Possible Tools for Project
After Tuesday’s class and seeing the different tools used for collecting data from sites and sources, and after being able to see the book we are digitizing, I began to think about how these could be used for my group’s project. One of the ideas that I had was using topic modeling as bonus information …