Last week was spring break, and as much as possible, I gave myself permission to step away from the Mapping Cemeteries project. I’m not sure how much I was able to enjoy my break from the project as I spent a lot of that time overthinking all of the work […]
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We’ve really gotten a lot done this week, and (as many others have commented in their blogs already) it’s really feeling real now. It was especially wonderful having so much of our class time devoted to group work this week. Site Updates We have a lot of great data already […]
Inspired by our class and group discussions in last Thursday, we decided our project would benefit from having a companion WordPress site on the Commons. We already have a Commons group where we share all of our files, keep track of deliverables, and conduct most of our conversations via forum […]
This week was research and more research. Bret made me aware that the NYPL will send books to GC students, so I made a request for a copy of the Jenkins Worth biography and the planning report that the NYC Common Council created to commemorate the memorial. It can take […]
We (namely, Nadia) are building our project in GitHub Pages, and have yet to publish the site so far. But here are some screenshots to show everyone of the direction we’re heading in. Splash Page The first page you see is a map of New York City. We will have […]
This week I have spent most of my time researching William Jenkins Worth. I was able to find only one biography of him, “General William Jenkins Worth: Monterey’s Forgotten Hero” published in 1953, which is now out-of-print. Instead, I’ve been reading contemporary accounts of his life and death. The New […]
Another week has passed! It’s surreal how rapidly this semester is flying by as well as how the initial idea for Mapping Cemeteries has sprouted into an actual project that is developing more and more as the team is performing their own individual research and adding it into our group spreadsheet. […]
This is the first week I think I’ve felt more excited than overwhelmed by the project. I made time to get lost in research, and I learned so many fascinating (read: horrible) things. After class last week, I decided to poke around the New York Public Library’s digital archives and […]
This week, I progressed in the development of the wireframes for all our website components. I felt a relief to be finally able to show something to my team and get real-time feedback. I think with web development, it is really hard to make things look exactly how everyone is […]
