So this is a little late, but last week we worked with Hypothes.is to update the Digital History book. It was quite interesting. The section I worked on what regarding ownership of online sources. Most of the annoations I made were actually not regarding policy changes, as those have remained pretty steady, but complications to […]
Final Steps
With the project being due on Tuesday next week we are finishing up fine details and fine tuning little things. For me personally, that means a list of website edits including things that need to be done amd others we’d like to have done. I need to add final featured images on the site to […]
Weekly Post 4/18
TweetMy group split up the video editing last class. We each took two videos to edit by next class. While I used iMovie before to edit videos, I never used Final Cut. I gave myself time to become better acquainted…
Week 13 – Winding Down
Dear Journal, Last week I did not write because I opted for the hypothes.is option presented to us by Professor McClurken. These past few weeks have been the busiest. In addition to the group project, I have also been preoccupied with exams, literature readings, and a thesis paper. I have been working on my parts … Continue reading Week 13 – Winding Down
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 […]
Week Twelve: Really, progress IS being made….
This project is much more difficult and intense than any of us imagined. However, progress is being made. After many changes and additions to our spreadsheet that will be used to batch upload the cemetery register data to our website, the spreadsheet is complete. We are now in the process of concatenating data that needs …
Week 12/13 Progress Reports
These past two weeks have been incredibly trying for our group. We have had to make some difficult decisions about our metadata spreadsheet very quickly. Additionally, we have had to enter all 500 pages of the register, equaling about 15,000 separate entries. We originally only included running numbers, but decided to go back and include … Continue reading “Week 12/13 Progress Reports”
Week 12-Hypothe.is
Hypothe.is is a very interesting concept. I have never used it before, and I find it both strange and useful. Leaving comments on articles is very useful and something that I wish I knew I could do before this class. There have been plenty of times when I have wished that I could just write right … Continue reading Week 12-Hypothe.is →
Week 12 – Adventures in Digital Studies
Almost done with this semester, only 2 more weeks. In class on Tuesday, we worked with the Google Chrome extension, Hypothesis. Hypothesis allows user to annotate webpages. It is very useful when an author or other web user wants feedback on their sites if they are working on updating or any other sort of editing. Read More
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, …