It’s been a fun experience to share the website with my team and get their input and feelings on each page. Each one of the team brings a fresh perspective from the cemetery they are researching on the project and to see all of it come together onto our data […]
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Our team is prioritizing pedagogy and the overall reproducibility of Mapping Cemeteries in our Outreach and Publicity Plan. While several social media platforms and web tools provide wide opportunities for distribution, not all–or even most–are conducive to teaching the Digital Humanities (DH) skills and topic of Mapping Cemeteries. We understand […]
Our team has had several meetings where we have touched on different aspects of data management. We are using GitHUB for development, which has good version controls for the codebase. That system is self-contained and doesn’t require that we create a system from whole cloth. However, we have agreed to […]
Starting to think about the Data Management Plan was somewhat challenging because it really forced our team to think a lot more about the project as a whole. We all realize that the data we will be using and the way we organize will go hand in hand with our […]
Our deliverables these past two weeks have been very challenging to me. I really didn’t want to deliver them. But having gone through the process of creating a Work Plan and a Data Management Plan (DMP), I get it. It’s so much more fun having ideas and having your head […]
1. What are the types of data that may be produced as part of this project? Our project will generate data specific to five cemeteries, as well as data for the timeline visuals which will combine all five cemeteries data into one. We expect to have both primary (generated by […]
Refocusing Our Audience Mapping Cemeteries is a Digital Humanities (DH) project in conversation with academic and non-academic audiences who are seeking accessible audiovisual resources that explore our complex relationships to death. With these subjects in mind, Mapping Cemeteries begins its first phase with the graduate students of the Spring 2021 […]
Lisa Kofod …is a writer and producer, they are also a digital humanities student working toward their Master of Arts in the Digital Humanities at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY). A life-long New Yorker, they were drawn to this project because of their love […]
Nadia is a software engineer and a graduate student in the Master of Arts in Digital Humanities program at CUNY. She has graduated with a BA in Computer Science and Statistics, helping her to develop skills in software design and development with a focus on ethical practices and critical problem […]
