During the past two weeks, our team has achieved a big part of the functionality we hoped to get to with our timeline. The vertical and horizontal timelines are now interactively dependent, which is really nice to see, since we have only been talking about how we imagine it to be since the beginning. I have also created one of the individual cemetery pages as a way to show the team for our upcoming meeting and discuss layout and data presentation on the pages.

One thing I am looking forward to is our branding meeting which will be this week. We are finally getting to the fun part!!! Choosing color schemes, fonts, icons, a logo will reinforce our vision and make it come to life by applying to the website.

Other than working on the website development this week, I finally got to do some research on the New York Marble Cemetery. The cemetery is actually becoming a common place to organize weddings. It has also put its last two vaults  (supposedly the last two burial plots in Manhattan) for sale, each for 350,000$ in 2015. How crazy is that!!?? Clearly, this research is turning to be fascinating. It has been really cool to look at the history and progression of the two marble cemeteries, although my focus will be on the New York Marble Cemetery, not the New York City Marble Cemetery.

Finally, I wanted to express how happy I am about the ways which our team has found to document the process. I believe that the WordPress commons website works hand in hand with the project website hosted on Github to show process and product in harmony.

[This entry was originally posted on  DHUM 70002 Digital Humanities: Methods and Practices (Spring 2021)  in Personal Blogs on April 13, 2021 by NedjaEM.]

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