It is still feeling like we have a lot of work to do before the end of the semester, but it’s also feeling like we’re getting very close to “done.”

Asma is working to code our first audio episode this weekend. We will be sure and post as soon as it’s available for everyone to listen. We had a great time talking about ourselves and our project together (just like every time we meet), so we hope it is as engaging to our audiences as it was for us to make. We are all working asynchronously to record content for our second episode, in which we’re all spending time at and/or discussing our cemetery/memorial locations.

lane debuted preliminary designs for our logo. It was a very exciting moment for all of us! As we’re very drawn to lines (lines on the maps, traces, power lines), and we’ve discovered interesting ways in which our research overlaps and our locations speak to one another, we’re specifically interested in intersecting lines. And this is what lane is highlighting in our logo. The aesthetic matches so well with the aesthetic of our presentation thus far; it’s uncanny as they were developed separately. But Lisa rightly pointed out that we allowed this to happen–for us to be in sync with these design aspects of our sites and other aspects of the project–because we took our time with our research and we keep grappling with basic questions like “why mapping and why cemeteries?” and “what is Mapping Cemeteries?”

Nadia has made great progress with our GitHub site, having identified and mostly fixed the issue that was causing problems with our horizontal timeline. She’s going to spend some time building up our locations pages with the data we’ve gathered, so it will be very exciting to see our pages differentiate themselves from the template. And we’ve purchased a domain name (mappingcemeteries.com), so Nadia will be getting our new URL up and running soon.

And I’m already working to take in everyone’s constructive suggestions to improve our presentation, as well as working on updates to our Commons site.

[This entry was originally posted to DHUM 70002 Digital Humanities: Methods and Practices (Spring 2021) in Group Project Updates and tagged mapping cemeteries on April 23, 2021 by Brianna Caszatt.]

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