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 […]
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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 […]
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 […]
It has been an exciting week for our cemeteries project. The team is coming together: we have a GC Commons forum that we are using to collaborate and are well on the way to defining the goals of the project and its central conceit. We have had to rethink the […]
I’m not really sure where to start. Already it’s been such a rollercoaster of emotions. Excitement, fear, gratitude, overwhelmingness (I didn’t know this was already a word until just looking it up now). This project is so different and so much more than I initially envisioned, and that’s so great. […]
This week, our team discussed the workflow we plan to commit to during the project development, specifically which tools we will be using to communicate (We decided on a Commons Group as a way to keep track on progress, share findings and feedback), as well as the content of our […]
Writing and Editing I studied creative writing in undergrad, in particular poetry, so I’m very interested in how we use language to communicate, and I’m always thinking about whether there are better ways to say what we want to say. I’ve been an editor for more than 13 years, and […]
