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Final Project Progress Update # 2
Some challenges that I faced this week are getting the ReCAPTCHA working. I’m still stuck on that. Another challenge I had was to narrow down my topic based on the Great Potato Famine. What I’m going to do is focus on the emigration of the Irish to the United States as a result of the Irish Potato Famine. I’m still trying to find sources based on census records and other primary sources as well. I would like to focus on a couple of people to talk about their journey from Ireland to the United States. I believe that this will help the audience understand what some of the Irish immigrants…
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Final Project Progress Update # 1
In the “Local Sites and Community History” Module for the course, I’m giving an update on my final project progress so far. You will know what challenges I’m facing as well as what I plan to do next. What I have done so far on my project is downloaded various Omeka plugins that I need to have on my website. These plugins should give me the functionalities that I need on my website to make it interactive and more intuitive. Those plugins that I downloaded and tested as I went along are: User Profiles (Created two users so far. One is admin and the other is Contributor) Simple Contact Form…
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Local Sites and Community History Reading Response
As I was reading the chapter “Community Exhibition: History, Identity, and Dialogue” the book, Private History in Public: Exhibition and the Settings of Everyday Life by Tammy Gordon, I realized a couple of main points. First, Gordon details the way in which curators and/or museum volunteers/interpreters engage with the public. Some museums are most talkative and personal in their interactions and some aren’t. Those that were more personal, friendly, and engaging with their audience gave them an opportunity to not only excite and feed questions and answers off of one another but for each side to learn more about each other. For the audience to learn about the history and…
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Narrative Interpretation Reading Response
I’ve learned from Modules 4 and 5 that it’s not about just putting historical items on a website and calling it digital public history website. It’s so much more than that. It’s making sure that the items that you want to highlight in your project is not only digitally available but that the historical context is highlighted. In the journal article by Tim Sherratt, “It’s All About Stuff: Collections, Interfaces, Power, and People,” he describes the process of not only obtaining the data but how to get the information out of it based on the needs of his project. Sherratt created scripts or use other open source technologies to scrape…
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Building Your DPH Project Infrastructure
As I went along in this assignment, I learned that it is not only important to have sources to make your exhibit, but also the way you will present them. I was able to find some sources of newspaper articles from Irish and British newspapers which is great, but I also have to make sure that I am using them in a way that is inviting for my users to want to learn more. As I am in the process of building my exhibits, one of the first items that we as a class had to do for this module was create a storyboard. This is important because it let’s…
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Project Proposal
My project proposal for the George Mason University’s Digital Public Humanities Graduate Certificate Digital Public History assignment revolves around the Great Irish Potato Famine during the middle of the nineteenth century. This is an event that has been discussed in schools whether in law, medical, history majors, grade school, etc. I would like to make it more accessible to the by the public putting the resources in one place but also letting the public contribute to the resources. While the general history of the subject is important to recount, I am much more interested in the public reaction to the event. The questions that I wish to explore for the…
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Personas Revised
Persona 1: Name: Macy Demographic: Female, 24, middle class, lives in the suburbs Descriptive Title: Enthusiastic Internet Surfer Quote: Surfing the internet enhances your general knowledge A Day in a Life Narrative: Gets up and get dressed for work at a software developer company. Arrives at 8 am and works until 4 pm. She then makes her way back to her two bedroom apartment where she then eats dinner in front of the tv for an hour and then is on the computer internet surfing until bedtime at 11 pm. End goals: To use my final project to understand more about the history because she happened upon my website. She’s…
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Collections Reading Response
The process of finding the sources and uploading it to Omeka proved to be not a simple task. Not only did you have to find primary sources but you also had to make sure that you described it correctly to the best of your ability and in a standard way. I learned this in more detail through the article, “Metadata: An Introduction” by JISC Digital Media. By doing that exercise, it not only help me to prepare for my project by having some sources but also have me think more deeply as to what sources I want to show my audience. I knew that I wanted to collect newspaper articles,…