This semester, myself and six others were tasked with the project of creating a website and interactive map for the Fredericksburg National Cemetery. In addition to these tasks, we were to digitize a 500 page register in order to link the data from the website to the map. Throughout this project we were working closely […]
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All done! (almost)
We did it! We submitted our project last night and are awaiting comments and revisions from Professor McClurken so that we can hammer out some details before presenting on Friday. I’m extremely proud of everyone in our group and our ability to complete this demanding project while simultaneously balancing the workload of our numerous other […]
Home Stretch!
In t-minus one week we will be turning in our project and shortly after we will be presenting it at the departmental symposium. Today we made even more strides with our website! Since we finished the spreadsheet, we were able to batch upload the data and so far almost 450 pages have been uploaded to […]
Hypothesis
Yesterday, we worked on utilizing Hypothesis to annotate Cohen and Rosenzweig’s Digital History. Through this process we were able to go through each section and see what portions of the text had out of date information, as well as things that we had questions about. It was interesting to read the articles at the beginning […]
Updates on our project
So far, our group has been making huge strides when it comes to our spreadsheet. In order for us to be able to batch upload our information, we had to create a spreadsheet that includes all of the known, and unknown names, their running numbers and their corresponding grave numbers. Additionally, we’ve been including information […]
Digital History and its Key Changes
Digital History was initially a way to present public history in a digital way, especially with the addition of hyperlinking as a way to share information quickly and easily! Most people in the digital history departments are committed to making the information accessible to a wide variety of people which is not something that can […]
Digital Identity
After reviewing several websites, it is clear that hyperlinking information is extremely important. This allows for the audience (in this case, me) to very easily see and understand what is being discussed or referenced. Here are some of the main takeaways I learned after exploring some sites: Jess Reingold – Have PDF versions of your […]
Wikipedia + Creative Commons
Wikipedia is a site that is constantly growing and changing. Very surprisingly, not too many people are in charge of running the site. Because it is community based, anyone can take part in editing the pages. If one wanted to go back and see what edits had been made, one could click the ‘View History’ […]
Naming Conventions + Metadata
This week, we went over the revised contract for our group. One of the things that our group in particular is going to have to be mindful of is naming conventions and how we choose to label the metadata on our Omeka site. As far as naming pages within the register, we have decided on: […]
Contracts
After writing our first go round of our group’s contract, it’s clear to see that we have some reevaluating as a group to do. Some of the goals that we had originally intended are no longer applicable due to alterations in our understanding of our project. Luckily, we will no longer have to digitize over […]