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Final Reflection
This class was a learning experience for me to make sure that I chose a topic that I was interested in and I could complete the technical requirements as well. I had some wins and losses in terms of the final project. I had issues with getting the reCAPTCHA working, trying to figure out which plugins to use, and trying to get my website to not crash with every click. What I learned was to use a different version of reCAPTCHA, use only the plugins that are necessary, and don’t download too many plugins otherwise it will crash your website. The wins I achieved was finally finding Public Domain sources…
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Final Progress Update #4
The challenges I’ve been facing over the past four weeks was finding sources that I was able to use. I believe that this topic has been widely researched so trying to find sources shouldn’t have been that difficult. I might have been making a mountain out of a molehill. I struggled to find sources and to make sure that they were in the Public Domain. I think that I was so worried about finding free and open sources, that yes is an important issue, but it became a blocking factor in my research. It made me question as to whether this was the right historical topic for me and whether…
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Exploring Your Landscape with Digital Public History
I used the website Clio for this activity. I searched for my hometown and found entries about various people and places that I wouldn’t have known about if I didn’t search this website. It was a great experience to see some of the achievements that my local people did in their lives and where their story connects to a local building. This website uses Google Maps and Google Earth to find the place that you searched for an also to see if in present day. There is also description about the person/place and any interviews or other related to that topic available on Youtube video and any transcripts. This website…
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Annotating Oral History
https://ohms.uky.edu/preview/?id=60661
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Final Project Progress Update #3
Some challenges that I’m facing are not being able to find sources that are in the Public Domain for my topic on the Great Potato Famine and my website is not looking the way I envisioned. I’m not sure if I’m looking in the right places or if I should change my historical topic. Hopefully if I can find more sources then it will prove that the Omeka plugins I installed will work for this project. Another issue is trying to make my website be interactive and fun which at the moment it is not. It’s bare bones which I guess is fine for now but I need to find…
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Landscape/Mobile Reading Response
Reading the article, “Implementing Mobile Augmented Reality Applications for Cultural Institutions” by Deborah Boyer and Josh Marcus offers the pros and cons of developing a website into a mobile web application. The article, “Storyteller – World War One: Love and Sorrow – A hybrid exhibition mobile experience” by Timothy Hart and Johnny Brownbill offers the experience of creating a mobile application using Bluetooth technology. In “Beyond the Screen: Creating interactives that are location, time, preference, and skill responsive” by Brad Baer, Emily Fry, and Daniel Davis they discuss ways that museum/exhibit mobile/tablet/desktop app developers can implement their application to suit their needs along with their patrons. The options they give,…
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Oral History Reading Response
Reading “OHMS: Enhancing Access to Oral History for Free” by Doug Boyd provided a glimpse at what the Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History at the University of Kentucky Libraries went through to create a software, Oral History Metadata Synchronizer (OHMS), useful to their field and open to the public. They dealt with the challenges of transcription, indexing, time code markers, and other aspects of digitizing oral interviews. Boyd discusses these challenges and how the OHMS solved these issues. By making it an open source project, it makes it easier for other institutions and/or individuals to use this software. There is still improvements to be made to this software…
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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…