Scrapbook Group Contract – ADH 8.0

World War II Scrapbook Contract

Group Members:

Morgan
Brandon
Janis
Gus

Mission statement

- We wish to highlight both the personal and military experience of a World War II Veteran through his personal family scrapbook. We want to explore his life by emphasizing the images and captions he provided. We want the website to be inviting but not distracting in terms of color and theme, especially with larger black and white images.

Include audience and advertising and project/data sustainability models

- Networking through other online sites (social media and/or scholarly digital repository. We want to upload the entirety of the scrapbook in such a way that it will remain accessible online for as long as possible. The audience of this website is centered around World War II research as well as a more personal viewpoint of the war from a soldier’s perspective. The audience might also find this website useful if they are looking through the oral history project that this scrapbook is connected with. We will include a brief overview of WWII in general, including the difference between the European theater vs the Pacific theater, and give a brief explanation of scrapbooks and their usage during this time.

Tools planning on using

- Omeka
  - We will use Omeka as the base of the website
  - Word Cloud at the bottom of the opening page from metadata tagging to make it easier from users to find specific images and topics
  - Omeka is divided up into the following categories and used in the following ways:
    - Items: Scrapbook pages just the images
    - Collections: There will be a browse collections tab where viewers can browse just the scrapbook page images without transcriptions and then with transcriptions. The scrapbook has some sections built into it with blank pages so collections will be separated based on the scrapbook sections
    - Exhibits: StorymapJS with images, Highlighting certain people included in the scrapbook, how they interacted with Schwarz, and how they were featured in the scrapbook. His wife will receive her own page that is linked to the oral history interview.
- StorymapJS
  - We will create a StorymapJS displaying his travels during his enlistment, service, and return home.
- Instagram
  - We will use this as a way to share project updates and include it on the website as a quick overview of pages. We will make 2 instagram posts per project update date.
  - Instagram: @private.schwarz, password: privateschwarz123

Include suggested location for project URL (“slug”) on umwhistory.org

- PvtSchwarz
- https://pvtschwarz.umwhistory.org/

Site Layout
- Big Picture Omeka theme
- Front cover of the scrapbook to enter the site
- Homepage with brief overview of what the site contains and list of contributors as well as instructions of how to navigate the site
- Sidebar menu with tabs with dropdown menu
  - Search bar
  - About Page
    - Detailed description of scrapbook
    - Project history
  - Pages of the scrapbook
    - Pictures (scrapbook itself)
    - Pictures with transcription
  - StorymapJS
  - Biographies
    - Albert Schwarz
    - Jane Schwarz
  - Context of a WWII scrapbook
    - WWII- at home and abroad
    - Scrapbooking during the war
  - Instagram
  - Bibliography

Schedule of milestones (Work is listed on the day it needs to be completed)

- Feb 9
  - Group field trip to see scrapbook in special collections
- Feb 17
  - Website created and everyone has editing access
  - Tagging system created and approved by Dr. McClurken and Angie.
- 7-8 min project updates
  - Feb 24
    - Morgan will create the Title Page (Morgan has an away game today and will likely have to zoom into class, I can possibly pre-record my portion of the presentation)
    - Brandon will create the About Page
    - Janis will create a word doc of transcription for her half of the pages
    - Gus will create a word doc of transcription for his half of the pages
    - Morgan and Brandon will use the tagging system to upload 5 images from each of our sections
    - Including the Dublin Core metadata for each image such as description, title, language, date, creator, etc.
    - 2 instagram update posts about work
  - Mar 10
    - Morgan and Brandon will have at least 20 images uploaded and tagged from each of our sections
    - Janis & Gus plan ready for how formatting transcription/alt text with images will be done on the site & rough draft of who will be featured in biographies page
    - 2 instagram update posts about work
  - Mar 22
    - Morgan and Brandon upload and tag the remaining, roughly 25, images and double check all the meta data
    - Janis & Gus biography pages done & transcriptions up and implemented on site
    - 2 instagram update posts about work
- Mar 31: 10 min project presentation
  - Final touch ups on the remaining pages on the site (timemap, acknowledgements, etc.)
  - Run accessibility programs across the website
  - 2 instagram update posts about work
- April 5th
  - Final accessibility check across the website
  - 1 instagram update posts about work
- Project due April 7
  - DONE!
  - 1 instagram update posts about work

Basic division of labor and project roles

- Website creation and design
  - Highlighting specific people from the scrapbook
    - Gus and Janis will pick 1-2 people and create
  - “About page”
    - Brandon
  - Title/introduction Page
    - Morgan
- Uploading, tagging, and describing of images using alt text
  - Pages 1-52 Morgan
  - Pages 52-103 Brandon
- Transcribing or writing on pages
  - Gus and Janis, divide it in half and then divide each half 50/50
  - Actual transcription in word doc to organize information before being formatted with the uploaded images
- Timemapper
  - Morgan and Brandon will make the timemap collectively
- Biographies of the scrapbook
  - Janis & Gus will make pages accessed through tags that go into more detail on the people featured
- Instagram Posts
  - Posts are a combination of everyone’s work as they will include uploaded and tagged images and transcriptions, as well as screenshots of the website as it grows overtime