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 […]
Group Project Update
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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 […]
This week was a big milestone for us. We agreed that April 15 was our deadline to finish our research. When we set this deadline it felt like we had all the time in the world to leisurely research our locations. Now that we’ve reached it, it doesn’t feel like […]
We’ve all made the most of our time this week since spring break. Nadia has made extensive updates to our site on GitHub (check us out!) and has been working hard to put our dreams into code. Our horizontal timeline is meant to place users within New York City history […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
