Contract for Devil-Goat Day Project – ADH 10.0

Mission statement (describe project):

The Devil-Goat Day Digital History Project seeks to preserve, interpret, and share one hundred years of a defining University of Mary Washington tradition. Through an interactive timeline, digital archive, and collaboration with UMW Special Collections, this project documents how Devil-Goat Day has evolved across one-hundred years with ten entries per decade. This collection will comprise Devil-Goat Day promotional media, memorabilia, and photographs. Sources will be pulled from Special Ccollections digital and physical catalogue, Facebook groups such as alumni and the Fredericksburg history community, and the Library’s extensive newspaper archive. UMW Outreach will be achieved via social media, flyers, and promotional QR codes scattered across campus and downtown Fredericksburg. Our goal is to make the history of Devil-Goat Day accessible, engaging, and meaningful for a wide audience, including the UMW community, extending to the broader Fredericksburg community. By combining historical materials, research, and multimedia storytelling, we aim to create a dynamic resource that celebrates the past while inviting ongoing participation in the tradition’s future.

Tools planning on using:

SLUG:

dgd.umwhistory.org

Schedule of milestones (when critical pieces are completed and/or ready to present)

02/20/2026	2 min Video completed
02/20/2026 – 02/24/2026	Website set-up starts All pages / menus set up (placeholders) About Homepage Collections / Gallery Decades Bibliography / Sources Page
Week 6 (Feb, 23-27th)	Special Collections Re-Visit Work on a working bibliography Revised Contracts (24th) 3 min presentation (26th) Website outlined (26th) discuss overlap w/ Special Collections Reach out to Facebook groups about their possible contributions to the collections
Week 7 (March 9-13th)	Digitize Objects Upload online entries Go to Special Collections and take photos/scans *limit objects to 10 per decade
Week 8 (March 16-20th)	Site Draft + 8 min presentation (12th) Timeline done Pages set up
Week 9 (March 23-27th)	Website Review
Week 10 (March 30th- April 3rd)	3 min presentation (24th) Start thinking about what the legacy of the page is Also talk to Special Collections about taking over the site
Week 11 (April 6-10th)	10-Minute Progress Report (2nd) Summary/Legacy page on site Revise the site
Week 12 (April 13-17th)	Project due (9th)
Week 13 (April 20-24th)	Symposium Preparation Presentation Run through
04/24/2026	Symposium

Basic division of labor (including project roles):

Project Tracker
Website Development
- Abigail Firestone
  - Creation, design, management, and formatting of website. Implements agreed-upon features. [wordpress]
Legacy page
- Cora Hammer, Charlotte Niblett
PR (Social Media)
- Benjamin Berger
  - An Instagram account tied to the website exhibition with story updates, posts, and theming relevant to the project to promote it.
Content management
- All members of the group will have an adjoining role in deciding what will actually appear on the website, including any text or writing on the site, and metadata for all images and artifacts.

Accessibility Considerations:

High contrast color scheme
Alt-text on all images
- INCLUDING in captions on social media posts
Transcripts, Closed Captioning, and Audio Description on all audio and video media
- Transcripts of possible interviews, captioning, and audio descriptions for footage of Devil-Goat Day through the years, and transcript or caption for the recording of the Devil-Goat Day song.
Utilizing WAVE to double-check.

Who will be responsible for the summary/legacy page for the project, and what to include.

We will not utilize AI on this project.

Signatures,

Charlotte Niblett, Cora Hammer, Abigail Firestone, Benjamin Berger-Relave