Echoing the sentiment in others posts–how is tomorrow May? Part of me still feels like it’s February and we’re still in the early planning days. But when I try to list everything we’ve accomplished, wow, we’ve really come so far as a team.
Mapping Cemeteries: After Life
We’ve now all completed recording our individual components for our second audio episode, in which we all spend time musing about our individual locations. And for the second half of class yesterday we recorded most of our third episode, in which we shared more of our individual research and drew connections between our locations. And it was such a wonderful experience. This is something we had put off for the most part; we were drawing a few connections here and there in previous meetings, but until last night, I don’t think we quite knew just how many connections there were to draw (I am primarily speaking for myself, but I don’t think I’m alone on the team in this sentiment) between our individual research efforts.
Added bonus: much of what we discussed will also inform the vertical timeline aspect of our project. Aside from completing our content for the location pages, the vertical timeline is probably the biggest deliverable we have yet to complete. And we’ve agreed to complete it together in our next team meeting. And it’s not even a bonus per se; that makes it sound like happenstance, when in reality Asma has put in so much work to create our audio plan, and pick themes for each of our episodes, and write prompts for us, and generally be our amazing audio guide. I think several of us were nervous, never having worked on content like this before (I know at least I was), but Asma has made the process so enjoyable and rewarding.
And she’s been hard at work editing our first episode, which she expects will be ready on SoundCloud this Sunday. I will update the post, or share in a reply, when our episode is ready.
Final Inventory
As I mentioned in my personal blog, we’ve completed an inventory of our final must-haves before the Digital Showcase for our GitHub site, and a similar inventory is in the works for our Commons site.
We’ve worked backward from the showcase, knowing we want to add in screenshots and/or video of our GitHub site for our revised presentation, and set two more data deadlines so Nadia only has to pull our data to update our content twice more.
Our plan for these last two weeks is admittedly demanding, but I think we can do it. And we still have at least two more meetings before the Digital Showcase where we can readjust and scale back as needed.
[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 30, 2021 by Brianna Caszatt.]
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